by Linda Beale Friday Animations–Bush Tax Cuts crossposted with Ataxingmatter It might be worth reminding everbody about now that the Bush tax cuts were a poor idea even when they…

…most of the time, like “lowering tax rates” and “simplifying the tax code”, both of which are nonsensical when it comes to corporate multinationals who pay incredibly low effective tax…

…income. This only makes a terribly regressive tax somewhat less regressive, and it expands the tax slice from that still-regressive tax — a tax that discourages working for a living…

Paul Caron at Taxprof blog points us to capital gains Is Capital Gains Tax Law Biased Against Low Income Investors? Min Dai (National University of Singapore, Department of Mathematics), Hong…

…loophole riddled corporate tax system that corporations are easily able to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. IN fact, other countries have more effective tax systems that get more…

…four). Eliminates the alternative minimum tax [AMT]. Promotes saving by eliminating taxes on interest, capital gains, and dividends; also eliminates the death tax. Replaces the corporate income tax – currently…

by Linda Beale ABA TAx Section Pronouncement on Carried Interest originally posted at Ataxingmatter (Nov. 10) The American Bar Association Section of Taxaction has issued a letter on Comments on…

…totally disagree with the Republicans and which people care about. My policy proposal and political strategy is to increase progressivity increasing taxes on the rich and cutting taxes on everyone…

…whatever tax policy it wants, whether Congress has done so or not. How about a freeze on all corporate taxes, since the Bush Administration professes to believe that such tax…

…tax rates and the annualized changes in real taxes paid rate per capita. Here, the idea is that cutting people’s taxes could lead people to pay more taxes. The Laffer…