Institute on Taxation and Economic PolicyOpinion

How the Wealthy Exploit the Tax Code: Q&A with Professor Ray Madoff, Author of ‘The Second Estate’

How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy, walks readers through federal tax policy history and the modern-day legal ...
Wall Street Journal

A VAT Has No Place in the American Tax Code

A VAT, or a value-added tax, might as well be French for “big government.” Paul Ryan and Kyle Pomerleau’s proposal for a destination-based cash-flow tax as “A Tax-Reform Alternative to Trump’s Tariffs ...
The American Spectator

The Nebraska Internet Sales Tax…Comes for You!

P.J. O’Rourke once snarkily noted that the American tax code was clearly designed by “A” students, as “every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being ...
Washington Monthly

How America’s Tax Code Built an Aristocracy

Taxes make civilization possible. When the ancient Greeks introduced democracy roughly 2,500 years ago, they implemented a progressive taxation prototype so that those who benefited most bore the ...
Arizona Capitol Times

Kevin McCarthy: An oracle of Arizona’s tax code

Learn about the challenges lawmakers face in Arizona as they grapple with a new federal tax code from veteran tax policy ...