Tag: tax policy
Child poverty estimates point to a record low in 2021 –...
Steven Pressman, The New School and Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University
The U.S. government will likely report in...
Tax or treat! State laws on candy taxation vary wildly
Hayes Holderness, University of Richmond
Halloween shoppers have many delicious decisions to make before trick-or-treaters show up at their...
‘Tax the rich’? Democrats’ plans to make the wealthy pay a...
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley
Demanding tax increases on the rich...
What’s the charitable deduction? An economist explains
Patrick Rooney, IUPUI
The charitable deduction is a dollar-for-dollar reduction in taxable income that lowers what someone owes the...
People who win big prizes shouldn’t get taxed when they give...
Ellen P. Aprill, Loyola Law School Los Angeles
When former President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he didn’t keep the approximately...
Trump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the...
Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Rochester Institute of Technology
President Donald Trump is fighting the wrong fight in his ongoing trade war with the rest of the...
Taxpayers want more fairness. GOP plan to ‘reform’ the tax code...
Stephanie Leiser, University of Michigan
Republicans seem to be operating under the assumption that if the details of their tax “reform” plan are aired for...