Tax, Society & Culture

If the UK won't play nice.  It seems that the island of Jersey is growing weary of political attacks coming from the UK that label Jerse...

If by private sector you mean US corporations, which are making more profit than ever: From  Business Insider .  But not if by priva...

TJN quotes  François Vincent  who says transfer pricing is systematically imprecise, not only not an exact science but not a science at ...

Menzie Chinn says the austerity being imposed on Greece, Spain etc is self-defeating, while in the US the states are voluntarily choosi...

Catherine Rampell talks about the vicious cycle that occurs when budget cuts lead to understaffing and inefficiency, which leads to decl...

Easy: because politicians can't get re-elected when fuel prices  seem high.  

The OECD says the G20 reports that "steady progress is being made towards tackling tax evasion more effectively." I have cal...

Bruce Bartlett sees some movement in the top and bottom quintiles and notes: It is indisputable that the distribution of income in the Un...

TJN has a video from the UK Uncut movement on their lawsuit against HMRC regarding the Goldman Sachs tax giveaway , which is making progres...

Taxes are one of three pillars of prosperity .   From  Marginal Revolution : In a recent book Besley and Persson 2011 argue that fisca...

This is required reading for anyone interested in markets, governance, and human flourishing.  Dierdre McCloskey never disappoints.  I won...

Yves Smith has a post on how  austerity is being used to destroy the social contract : Greece has been told to reduce health care from...

Last week, Bernie Sanders released " Jamie Dimon is Not Alone ," a list of the banks and businesses that were handed almost $4 ...

What is it with horses?  Every time I teach the intro tax course in the U.S., we all have a good laugh at the sheer volume of horse-speci...

In another tax story from Michigan, a brilliant if inadvertent tribute to Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012), from Cory Doctor...

The Ambassador bridge connects the US to Canada between Windsor and Detroit.  It's a private bridge, so every time you go over it you pa...

The Senate Banking committee's questioning of Jamie Dimon is all for show, as the committee and JP Morgan are intimate.  Service on ...

40% drop in the median income in the past four years.  It looks like this: via Slate , who attributes the result to declining wages ...

1 in 4 works in trade, transportation & utilities; 1 in 5 works in government, and just a bit fewer make things. via flowing data...

Will the EU airline emissions tax prevail, or will it fall under pressure from the US?    Opinio juris points us to this story : (Reu...