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Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Fewer Than 0.5 Percent of Very High-Income Households Paid as Little Tax As Donald Trump

Following The New York Times blockbuster series on President Trump’s personal finances—especially the revelation that he paid just $750 in federal income tax in 2016...
October 2, 2020Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Opportunity Zones May Someday Help Poor Communities. They Already Are A Tax Shelter For High-Income Investors

New York Times reporters Jesse Drucker and Eric Lipton wrote a well-reported piece the other day on that Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s Opportunity Zone...
September 5, 2019Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox

President Trump As Role Model: Avoiding Taxes For Sport

Do you consider not paying taxes “sport?” The President of the United States says he does. And that raises serious concerns about the stability of our volumtary tax system.
May 8, 2019Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox

Should College Endowments Be Taxed?

Last week, the often-provocative Victor Fleischer rocked the higher education world with a New York Times op-ed that accused universities of hoarding their often-enormous endowments instead of spending the funds on student aid. Vic, a tax law professor at the University of San Diego, suggested that
August 25, 2015Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox

Is It Time to Repeal The Corporate Income Tax?

In case you missed it, The New York Times’ political and policy blog The Upshot published a fascinating debate throughout August on the question: Should the corporate income tax be abolished? It’s a query that may be raised on Monday morning, when Treasury Secretary Jack Lew speaks at the Tax
September 4, 2014Howard Gleckman