Higher Education Tax Breaks Violate Several Principles of Good Tax Policy

Laura Saunders' Wall Street Journal article of 10/29/11 - " Back to Schoo l" includes a nice summary of many of the numerous ...

CBO Trends in Household Income and Relevance to Current Tax Reform Debate

A lot of talk about tax reform today, including the proposals from presidential candidates, is either directly or indirectly about who shoul...

Taxes and behavior

The "Up for Discussion" section of the Zocalo Public Square addresses the topic - " Taxes Hurt So Good ." This ties t...

What Income Group Are You In? Help from Kiplinger website

Kiplinger has a nice interactive website that allows you to enter your income so you can learn where you fall within various income groups,...

Taxing the rich - interesting article in Christian Science Monitor

Saturday's Christian Science Monitor had an extensive story on the current news item about President Obama's proposal on increasin...

10/22/11 - 25th Anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1986

On October 22, 1986, President Reagan signed a bill that had been worked on by Treasury and Congress for over two years. The Treasury Depart...

Reality Check - How Many People Have Income Above the Social Security Wage Cap + S. 1558 proposal

There is an earnings cap on Social Security taxes, but not on Medicare taxes. For 2011, this cap is $106,800. Once an employee's wages o...

SB 508 vetoed - the future of accountability measures

I've discussed accountability in prior posts (such as 10/8/11 and 5/22/11 and 1/3/10 ) and there has been recent legislative activity...

California Accountability Measures - SB 508 and SB 364

Several states, including California, have proposed actions and taken actions on adding accountability to the tax system. The measures usual...

New Tax Return Details for 2011 Returns - Closing the Tax Gap

Who wouldn't want to see the $345 billion annual federal tax gap reduced? That's a lot of money! One way to make that happen is to ...

New Website for "Amazon" Click Through/Affiliate Nexus Laws

With all of the activity on the affiliate nexus laws that New York started with back in April 2008 and the recent saga in California (see pr...

Spending and Tax Reform - How to fix budget and tax problems

I have a guest post on the FranchiseHelp blog today on Spending and Tax Reform. I explain that there is spending in the tax law and that a...

Select Joint Committee hearing on revenue options and tax reform

On 9/22/11, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the committee that is supposed to find $1.5 trillion of reductions by 11/23/11)...