Growing income inequality and the federal tax system

Laura Tyson of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley has a post on the Economix blog of the NY Times for 11/18/11 - " Tackling I...

Unofficial IRS Guidance and Transparency and Possible Solutions to This Taxpayer Rights Issue

An October 31, 2011 article in Tax Notes - "Olson Says Informal IRS Guidance Lacks Transparency" ties to an issue I've been h...

Think Long Committee Ideas for Improving California

"The Think Long Committee for California aims to offer a comprehensive approach for repairing and renovating California's broken sy...

USA Today - story on shopper's use tax responsibility

One approach for increasing use tax collection that I have noted frequently is better education for consumers so they even know the tax exis...

More on affiliate nexus - Amazon-style + possible federal action

If you are looking for background on the affiliate nexus ("Amazon" type) legislation that has been enacted in varying forms in eig...

Too much bipartisanship for tax and budget reform - too bad for federal finances

It is unfortunate that the Select Committee is unable to reach a compromise to find $1.5 trillion to budget changes to reduce the deficit ov...

Spending, recession and sales tax

The California Board of Equalization Economic Perspective report for November is on Impacts of the Recession by Income Class and Type of Pu...