Tax, Society & Culture

Tax Justice Network published this  report today to say that the OECD's standards on tax information sharing and transparency a...

Richard Murphy links to this review of an international tax conference hosted by the Oxford Centre on Business Taxation, in which the ...

James Kwak asks, Why is the GOP Suddenly Turning Against College?   He answers: because of two historical trends. One is globalization....

Bruce Bartlett: Would a Higher Top Tax Rate Raise Revenues? On Friday, Prof. Allan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon University, a well-known...

Britain is talking about  Ken Livingstone, a Labour party politician, who is being called a tax dodger because he unapologetically chann...

Last week, I referred to a paper on the deficit bias, in which we see chronic under-taxation as an inevitable state of affairs in democra...

Krugman : "you could view Greece as being like a family that overspent, got itself into debt, and whose members now have to do all th...

Dan Shaviro on Ed Kleinbard's "The Sorry State of Capital Income Taxation": ...a key reason for reading it is to learn (or ...

Despite the compelling idea that a central mark of statehood is the power of the sovereign to impose taxation, it is surprising how little s...

sports stadiums  and  tar sand oil exploitation .

Nick Clegg's 'tycoon tax' plans "Speaking as the Liberal Democrats meet in Gateshead for their spring conference, M...

From The New York Times:  America Is Stealing the World's Doctors “I do feel guilty sometimes,” said Ofori-Amanfo, who came to the U...

Tax Justice Network: Investigation exposes Vodafone's phoney Swiss operators and from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism : In a...

Interesting dialogue on whether rising inequality is a global trend and therefore changing redistributive policy would be ineffective. ...

Britain is in a big debate over tax reform right now, with the conservative government proposing to drop the top individual rate of 50%. ...

" In a world of mobile capital, corporate tax rates matter ." except when they don't.

Emmanuel Saez updated his article " Striking it Richer " to include data through 2010.  From the excel tables, available on his we...

The Tuesday Podcast: What Mormons Can Teach The IRS : Planet Money : NPR : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that eac...

In a chapter I am writing for a book on tax law and development, I introduce the rise of activism in international tax policy, with groups...

I'm always on the lookout for books I can recommend to students that will give them a quick introduction to the basics of economics ...