…Thoma): Just as they did in 2000, the Republicans are running this year on an economic platform of tax cuts, especially making the tax cuts permanent for the richest among…

…periods. The first is the pre-tax period from 1901 until 1912. The second is the “rising tax” period from 1913 through 1918, and the third is the “falling tax” period…

…in the tax code including personal income tax rates, corporate tax rates, capital gains taxes, dividend taxes, investment tax credits, depreciation schedules, Social Security taxes, and the number of tax…

…the public option, supports passing new tax cuts that extend the Bush cuts for everybody, though arguing for tax increases eventually Max Baucus, Democrat who supported Bush tax cuts (imagine…

…as tax rates rise, unemployment rises, and as tax rates fall, unemployment falls. If the correlation is, in fact, negative, that means that lower unemployment tends to happen when tax…

…to these issues and ability to persuade others on the Court to his or her opinion. The AICPA, which has spearheaded the tax practitioner and accountant community’s lobbying against tax…

…unabated. 6. Supporting a national sales tax or VAT as the tax solution is similarly problematic Those tax systems are highly regressive, which is the wrong direction for us to…

Tax Prof Blog notes the following about Gov. Palin’s tax returns: Tax Profs Agree: Gov. Palin’s Tax Returns Are Wrong Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) & Bryan Camp (Texas Tech)…

…two-fold: (i) existing tax rules are expanded to cover abusive schemes developed by sophisticated tax advisers (attorneys and accountants), and (ii) existing tax rules are riddled with exceptions to provide…

…perused over by journalists, tax practitioners (especially academics) and just plain citizens are those showing just how much they are taking advantage of tax expenditures/subsidies to make huge profits for…