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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares I—among many others—have called for more money for the Internal Revenue Service to enable it to collect even more money owed to the US Treasury. And I still was stunned by the enormity of President Biden’s proposal to boost the IRS’s budget by $80 billion over the next decade: an increase of more

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Pour cette 27ème édition du podcast francophone édition de votre podcast en français Impôts et Justice Sociale avec Idriss Linge: que vous propose Tax Justice Network, nous revenons sur rapport publié par le Financial Transparency Coalition, avec le concours de plusieurs ONG internationales, dont Tax Justice Network Africa. Le document renseigne de ce qu’une part

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As 17th century French finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert once said, “Taxation is the art of plucking the goose as to obtain the maximum number of feathers, with the smallest possible amount of hissing.” In Tax Foundation’s new book, Options for Reforming America’s Tax Code 2.0, we modeled 70 possible reforms to the U.S.

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares ISO: A bipartisan infrastructure bill. The Washington Post reports that the White House is looking at ways to negotiate a compromise measure with a group of moderate Republicans. There is a wide gulf between the president’s $2.2 trillion plan, which includes significant tax hikes on corporations, and a $568 billion framework with no

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Kansas legislature will reconvene next week for its 2021 veto session, when legislators will reconsider bills that were vetoed by the governor. One such bill that has a second chance of being enacted, Senate Bill 50, would enhance Kansas’ economic competitiveness by improving the state’s corporate, individual, and sales tax structure while

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Months ago, I heard an interview with the NYU Professor Scott Galloway about what the world may look like post-Covid. One of the main takeaways was to think of the pandemic not as a “change agent,” but rather as “accelerant” of trends that were already underway. I’d say this holds true with the

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares President Biden’s American Families Plan would make two big changes in the tax treatment of investment income such as long-term capital gains and dividends. Some critics say the change will raise little revenue because sophisticated wealthy investors will find ways to avoid the new tax. But while many wealthy investors may dodge the