These days, some people want to impose a new Buffett tax on millionaires while others are outraged that low income people pay no income taxes...

Sellers of stocks and other assets have always had to calculate their cost basis (generally, what they paid for the investment) in order to figure...

A House panel today began what could be the beginning of a remarkable exercise: It is reviewing the merits of dozens of expiring tax provisions...

By now, many readers of TaxVox know how much Barack Obama and Mitt Romney pay in taxes. But true tax wonks are more interested in...

In testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance this morning, I discussed what federal tax reform would mean for state and local governments and how...

My Tax Policy Center colleague Eric Toder and I are mystified by how unRepublican the House GOP’s Small Business Tax Cut Act really is. Sure,...

It has sometimes been said, even by me, that the easiest way for Congress and the White House to fix the deficit is to do…...

When the president first announced his Buffett Rule–that millionaires should pay at least 30 percent of their income in tax–in the State of the Union...

Like many of you, I just finished my 2011 tax return. Counting worksheets, it was 59 pages long. It occurs to me that our current...

This afternoon, I moderated an interesting Tax Policy Center panel on taxing the rich. With the Senate about to debate a Buffett tax on millionaires,...