TaxVox

How The GOP Candidate’s Tax Plans Stack Up Against One Another

February 17, 2016 –

How do the Republican presidential candidate tax plans stack up against one another? Who has the biggest tax cut? How do their plans affect people in...

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Cruz’s Flat Tax + VAT Would Cut Revenues By $8.6 Trillion

February 15, 2016 –

GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz’s aggressive plan to shift the tax code from a mostly income-based system to one based on consumption would slash...

Federal Budget and Economy

Rubio’s Ambitious Consumption Tax Would Reduce Revenue by $6.8 Trillion, Give Most Benefits to the Highest-Income Households

February 10, 2016 –

Senator Marco Rubio would convert the income tax into a progressive consumption tax, an ambitious idea that would eliminate the income tax’s penalty...

Federal Budget and Economy

The White House Quietly Rolls Out Its Last Tax and Budget Plan

February 8, 2016 –

If the White House wanted to attract attention to its final budget , it could not have picked a worse day to make it public. With official Washington...

Federal Budget and Economy

Obama Proposes to Fix the Cadillac Tax

February 7, 2016 –

In the budget he plans to release tomorrow, President Obama will propose some modest changes to the Affordable Care Act’s much-reviled Cadillac Tax...

Individual Taxes

What’s so funny about taxes, love, and solidarity?

February 2, 2016 –

A couple of weeks ago I donated six cases of water to our neighbors in Flint, Michigan . I’m not alone. In an outpouring of love and solidarity for a...

Business Taxes

The International Spitting Match Over the Google Tax Intensifies

February 1, 2016 –

Call it the perils of one-off corporate tax settlements. While the developed world is trying—with limited success-- to figure out how to tax...

State and Local Issues

Why are states letting the NFL rule their sales tax out of bounds?

January 31, 2016 –

According to the National Football League (NFL), Super Bowl tickets are the " Holy Grail " for football fans. One ticket to this year's game in Santa...