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Tax Reform Fantasy
by Martin A. Sullivan | November 18, 2010 - 9:53 AM EST
Tax reform is hard. Deficit reduction is hard. Why do people think that doing both simultaneously will make everything easier? [Read More]

Beware the Treasury-Financial Complex (1 comment)
Bubble Over Washington (5 comments)

Warner's Solution to the Tax Cut Conundrum
by Robert Goulder | November 16, 2010 - 8:00 PM EST
Forget everything you've been told about the pending expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts. Virginia Senator Mark Warner has an alternate proposal that challenges both the GOP's and Obama administration's entrenched positions. [Read More]

Do You Know Where Your Tax Dollars Go? (4 comments)
The Vodafone Case Sets Dangerous Precedent (2 comments)
Memo to Rangel: Stand Down, Go Home

The AMT Promise - What a Stitch
by Christopher Bergin | November 15, 2010 - 1:44 PM EST
Inspired by recent promises from leading Congressional taxwriters that they really, really will prevent the alternative minimum tax (AMT) from burying the middle class, even though there’s almost no time left to do so. [Read More]

Deficit Panel Chairs, Meet Namby-Pamby Land
Cutting Tax Breaks Will Save Us! Not.
Gridlock's First Victim: Tax Policy (2 comments)

Mitch Daniels Talks VAT
by VAT Bastard | November 10, 2010 - 12:24 PM EST
Indiana's Republican Governor Mitch Daniels says he could support a VAT under the proper circumstances. This provides us with plenty of food for thought. Although we don't agree with every aspect of the governor's idea, it's downright refreshing to hear a prominent political figure speak openly about VAT. [Read More]

The End of the World As We Know It (2 comments)
The Test Case for Future Tax Hikes
Rejoicing in the Demise of Bogus Tax Credits

Did the Anti-Taxers Win on Tuesday?
by David Brunori | November 3, 2010 - 10:39 AM EDT
In Washington they did. [Read More] (2 comments)

Care About Taxes? Then Vote (1 comment)
First Amendment Violation. Really? (4 comments)
Tone Deaf Tax Administrators (1 comment)

Scary Wage Data II -- Social Security Changes Its Numbers
by David Cay Johnston | November 2, 2010 - 9:23 AM EDT
Social Security says phony filings inflated total and average compensation and really inflated top earnings, which averaged $84 million not $519 million after fake W-2s by two people are removed, leaving 72 people earning more than $50 million. [Read More] (8 comments)

Scary New Wage Data (65 comments)
Measuring the Public Benefits From Taxes (3 comments)
United In Our Delusion (20 comments)

Immoral Tax Avoidance? No SuchThing.
by Joseph J. Thorndike | October 22, 2010 - 2:45 PM EDT
Google's now-famous tax avoidance is getting a lot of press, much of it outraged. Ultimately, though, the only real measure of a tax avoidance strategy is whether it's legal, not whether it's consistent with the "spirit" of the law or some such thing. As Judge Learned Hand observed more than half a century ago: "Taxes are enforced exactions not voluntary contributions, to demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.” [Read More]

Heretic! Apostate! "So-Called" VAT Lover!
And Then There Was One: When Tax Brackets Get REALLY Narrow (1 comment)
Republicans Have Abandoned Tax Reform. Because Grover Told Them To. (2 comments)

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