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tax evasion

Individual Taxes: TaxVox
$4 Trillion In US Wealth Is Stashed Overseas, Much Of It In Tax Havens A handful of extremely wealthy US taxpayers holds trillions of dollars...
March 28, 2023Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
The news is filled with stories about conflicts between taxpayers and tax collectors. Just a few weeks ago a New York jury convicted the Trump...
January 27, 2023Howard GleckmanSteven M. Rosenthal
Business Taxes: TaxVox
In his American Families Plan, President Biden unveiled a tax compliance initiative aimed at closing the gap between taxes that are owed and what are...
May 3, 2021Steven M. Rosenthal
Business Taxes: TaxVox
Last week, a group of prominent academic and government economists published a study that estimated the top 1 percent of Americans hide more than 20...
April 5, 2021Steven M. Rosenthal
: TaxVox
Most capital income earned by the wealthy never is taxed at the individual level, in part because assets are often not sold and their gains...
September 6, 2018C. Eugene Steuerle
: TaxVox
Congress returns next week. We’ll resume our regular schedule on Wednesday, November 5, after tomorrow's elections. State ballot initiatives offer clues on how much voters are willing to pay for government services. There are 16 tax-related initiatives on state ballots tomorrow. TPC’s Kim Rueben
November 3, 2014Renu Zaretsky
: TaxVox
Treasury calls for quick Congressional action, because Congress is known to be… quick. Secretary Jack Lew asked top congressional tax writers to act now to end corporate inversions, and make such legislation retroactive to May of this year, giving Congress time to reform the corporate tax system .
July 17, 2014Renu Zaretsky
: TaxVox
With a surprise loss, a short-term highway fix seems more likely. The House Republican leadership is in turmoil following the surprising primary defeat of GOP leader Eric Cantor, making it even less likely that Congress will agree on a long-term solution for the dwindling Highway Trust Fund .
June 12, 2014Renu Zaretsky
: Daily Deduction
A repatriation tax holiday? It’s expensive. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that such a holiday would cost $95.8 billion in revenue over the next decade, though it would bring in about $19.6 billion over the first two years. Some lawmakers raised the idea of temporarily reducing US
June 10, 2014Renu Zaretsky