Taxes
A new study of the tax plan promoted by Presidential candidate Joe Biden says it’s call for a significant hike in corporate income taxes...
President Biden is proposing to finance his infrastructure spending proposal by increasing the corporate income tax rate from 21 percent to
Key Features of Tax and Entitlement Spending Changes Income tax rates for high-income taxpayers are returned to the pre-Trump level....
Vice President Biden is proposing major changes to the federal personal income tax, Social Security’s payroll (FICA) tax, the federal...
Republican tax reform could have been better. An ideal reform, originally proposed by Paul Ryan would have produced a of 20.5 percent...
The Federal Reserve System is paying banks not to lend money under an Obama era policy. Banks can often do better holding reserves on...
The Fiscal Analyzer (TFA) is a detailed life-cycle consumption-smoothing program that projects income, taxes and spending for people of...
This article first appeared in Forbes HERE. Many view the 2017 Republican tax reform – The Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) – as a giveaway to...
Abstract: The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) represents the most significant change in U.S. taxation since 1986. The bill’s...
(Dallas, TX) A new study by economists who were the source of key ideas in last year’s tax reform legislation suggests the reform is...
The original Ryan/Brady tax reform was largely the brainchild of Goodman Institute economists Alan Auerbach (Berkeley) and Laurence...
By Larry Kotlikoff Originally posted at The Seattle Times, April 2017 We have until April 18 to file our taxes this year. I know no one...
By Larry Kotlikoff Originally posted in The Seattle Times, April 2017 Last June, Republicans in the House Ways and Means Committee rolled...
By Laurence Kotlikoff Originally posted at PBS Newshour, January 2016 Alan Skupp is an attorney who lives in Livingston, New Jersey. He...
CLICK THE IMAGE TO WATCH THE DEBATE. Thomas Piketty: The rate of return to investors (r) is higher than the growth rate of the economy...
Not all taxation is theft. But one tax that comes about as close as possible to being theft is the estate tax. After all, dead people...
The topic de jure for the chattering class these days is inequality. In fact, it’s hard to pick up a copy of The New York Times or the...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OBAMACARE SURPRISES FOR TAXPAYERS DALLAS, TX, April 15, 2015 – One of the nation’s leading health care economists...
A link to Slate, where my letter to Michael appeared”This debate between Dr. Goodman and former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley is a...
Tax reform consists of replacing personal and corporate federal income taxation with: (1) an 11 percent flat-rate income tax, or (2) a 14...
This National Review Analysis explains how the Goodman-Kotlikoff flat tax differs from the versions proposed by Dick Armey and Steve...
This NBER Working Paper finds that eliminating the corporate income tax would result in: (1) a rise in capital stock by 23 to 37 percent,...
This New York Times editorial argues that the biggest beneficiaries of abolishing the corporate income tax are workers, not owners of...
The goal of the Tax Center is to use sound economic analysis to evaluate the tax and spending policies of the federal government. Right...
