TaxVox

New Rules Will Require States to Be More Transparent About Tax Subsidies

August 18, 2015 –

Congrats to the Government Accounting Standards Board for pushing state and local governments to be more transparent about their tax subsidies. Last...

Business Taxes

Why Did Scott Walker Commit $400 Million for a Pro Basketball Arena?

August 13, 2015 –

Yesterday, Wisconsin Governor—and GOP presidential hopeful--Scott Walker committed more than $400 million in taxpayer money to help build a new...

Individual Taxes

Clinton Would Tinker With, Not Rewrite, the Tax Code

August 11, 2015 –

While many Republican presidential candidates are promoting their versions of broad-based tax reform, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton so far...

Individual Taxes

The Case of the Little Wrong Thing: Evading Online Sales Tax

August 5, 2015 –

Our eight-year-old son wants to write the President. “He needs to get a law passed that will make it illegal to throw cigarette butts out of car...

State and Local Issues

Recovery cannot save state budgets from politics

August 3, 2015 –

During the Great Recession and its aftermath, the economy wreaked havoc on state budget negotiations, forcing tough votes on spending cuts and tax...

Individual Taxes

States That Cut Taxes Do So At Their Peril

July 29, 2015 –

Ever since the 1970s, when Jude Wanniski and Arthur Laffer came up with the ideas that are now referred to as supply-side economics, conservative...

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Hillary Clinton’s Off-the-Mark Proposal to Encourage More Patient Investors

July 28, 2015 –

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has proposed to radically rejigger top capital gains tax rates to encourage investors to take a...

Federal Budget and Economy

How Did the Gas Tax Lose Its Mojo, Even Among Conservatives?

July 27, 2015 –

With just a few days left before federal funding for highway programs expires, the Senate is debating all sorts of amendments to an extension-- from...