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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares White House releases its $6 trillion budget today. The Washington Post reports President Biden will propose no new major policies in the budget beyond the many ambitious ideas in his American Jobs Plan and American Rescue Plan. The budget reflects his $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal, $1.8 trillion education and families plan, and $1.5

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Arizona legislators are considering tax changes as part of the fiscal year 2022 budget process that is underway. Companion omnibus taxation bills HB 2900 and SB 1828 would reduce individual income tax rates for all taxpayers, consolidate the state’s graduated-rate income tax brackets into what would effectively be a two-rate structure by 2023,

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Welcome to the latest episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast. You can subscribe either by emailing naomi [at] taxjustice.net or find us on your podcast app. In this episode: Taxcast host Naomi Fowler talks to millionaire and wealth tax campaigner Djaffar Shalchi of Millionaires for Humanity about his experience of moving from

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Welcome to the latest episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast. You can subscribe either by emailing naomi [at] taxjustice.net or find us on your podcast app. In this episode: Taxcast host Naomi Fowler talks to millionaire and wealth tax campaigner Djaffar Shalchi of Millionaires for Humanity about his experience of moving from

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares President Biden’s campaign promise never to raise taxes on those making $400,000 or less annually will inevitably conflict with his proposal to tax unrealized capital gains at death. We estimate Biden’s new capital gains tax could exempt about 98 percent of decedents who made $400,000 or less, but about 2 percent may face

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares We welcome back guest blogger and commenter in chief, Bob Kamman.  As usual, Bob has found things that the rest of us overlook.  In addition to the interesting twists on the way things work that Bob discusses below, I received a message from Carl Smith who, though retired, still takes some interest in

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Most countries provide tax relief to families with children—typically through targeted tax breaks that lower income taxes. While all European OECD countries provide tax relief for families, its extent varies substantially across countries. One way to measure targeted tax relief for families is to compare the tax burdens on labor of a family