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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares On April 1, 2002, a press release announced, “The Tax Policy Center, a new joint venture between the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution” was… Source link TweetShareSharePin0 Shares

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares With gasoline prices spiking, many state legislatures are debating whether to suspend gas taxes in an effort to provide some relief to consumers. But higher fossil fuel prices have other important consequences for states. The big winners are energy producing states such as Alaska and North Dakota where production taxes, known as severance

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Pelosi isn’t buying a gas tax holiday. She told reporters yesterday she might support a rebate or direct payment to consumers but a gas tax holiday is a no-go. She called it “very showbiz” but identified multiple downsides: “So we’re losing the money in the Highway Trust Fund. It goes to the oil

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Welcome to our monthly podcast in Portuguese, É da sua conta (it’s your business) produced by Grazielle David, Daniela Stefano and Luciano Máximo. All our podcasts are unique productions in five different languages – English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese. They’re all available here. Here’s the latest episode: Sanções a oligarcas exigem fim de sigilo fiscal #35 Tão logo a guerra na Ucrânia começou, os governos

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares This week, President Biden proposed two new taxes on the very rich. A minimum income tax that Biden calls a billionaire tax but would in reality apply to households with a net worth of $100 million or more. And a separate tax at death on gains from appreciated assets, even if the assets

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares On 22 March 2022, the BBC and the Guardian published a story about Alisher Usmanov, a Russian mining and telecoms oligarch, who is a former major shareholder of Arsenal football club and was once said to be the UK’s richest person. He is now a subject of sanctions against key associates of Russian

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares How to tax the rich? Let us count the ways. New taxes on capital income? Higher income tax rates? A wealth tax? Some mash-up of all these ideas? All aim to raise taxes on the very rich, driven by the twin desires to boost revenue and address growing wealth inequality. But while these