Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan argues that shifting taxes from homes to the land they sit on will encourage development and cut taxes for most homeowners. Local property tax activists aren't convinced.
Projections of huge savings are making the rounds. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Americans collectively spend billions of hours each year preparing their taxes. Rather than adding a government-run website into the mix, politicians should just simplify the tax code.
Maybe taxpayers would make fewer mistakes if the federal tax code weren't so hopelessly complex.
Nothing focuses the mind quite so intently on the sheer stupidity of government as doing your taxes.
The status quo is certainly worth challenging.
The British Conservative Party can’t figure out what it wants.
"Most" new IRS hires, claims a gullible FactCheck.org, "will provide customer services."
The curious case of the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance.
"If treating diapers like a luxury makes you mad, so should taxing them like a luxury," said Paltrow.
Wealth tax proponents claim only super rich people would be affected. But to raise the revenue Warren, Sanders, and Biden want, they'd have to tax the "working rich"—doctors, lawyers, and other hardworking high earners.
Musk responded that he will pay more in taxes this year than any other American in history.
A simplified tax code is the answer, not giving the IRS more funding.
Tax hikes and growing debt guarantee shared pain in a hobbled economy.
On their own, some of those tax breaks might be defensible. Dumping them into a must-pass budget bill is not.
The party that's calling for huge tax increases on the wealthy is about to hand wealthier Americans a big tax break that will add to the federal budget.
Bill de Blasio's coming humiliation is just the latest evidence of the outer-borough president's revenge on Manhattan.
What conservatives against "market fundamentalism" can tell you about libertarians without power
The U.S. rose four places in the International Tax Competitiveness Index, and this just the latest bit of good news.
It's time for a new approach on taxes.
The GOP needs a new theory of government.
North Carolina capped income tax rates at 7 percent, while Florida will now require a supermajority to increase taxes or fees.
Real reform requires simplifying the tax code.
The passage of tax reform 2.0 blows a huge hole in the budget, and a much-touted opioid bill might just make the crisis worse.
If Trump presses ahead with plans to tax all Chinese imports, the added costs would cancel out the economic benefits of last year's corporate tax cut.
Plan would extend last year's tax cuts past 2025, but spending cuts are still missing.
Rep. Vern Buchanan bought a yacht with a giant loan from a foreign bank that lobbied heavily in favor of tax reform.
Taking a tax break now amounts to taking a side.
GOP legislators released their "Tax Reform 2.0" proposal, which aims to make last year's tax cuts permanent, adding trillions to the $21 trillion debt.
A new GOP bill would benefit gyms and gym goers, but few others.
New York gets salty over new limits because now the rich will know they're being soaked.
Companies are paying bonuses, raising wages, and committing to major new investments. Is this a sign of the tax law's success-or just clever corporate PR?
New report suggests the Republican tax bill will have a smaller coverage effect, but cause an even bigger increase in the deficit.
Even the experts do not know what the law requires.
Taxpayers could end up sending hundreds of millions of dollars more to state treasuries as a result of slashing federal deductions and exemptions.
President Trump and the GOP leadership has already reneged on promises to tackle entitlements.
The Republican tax bill means most Americans will keep more of the money they earn. But the process will still be frustrating and terrible.
Another day of cartoonish outrage in Washington.
The tax bill does not deliver the simplification that the president promised.
It's a conventional Republican tax plan with all the predictable problems - and benefits.
The NFL lobbied hard, and the president reportedly lent a hand.
Reason editors point to the good stuff in tax reform, and the bad everything else
Some subsidies never die.
"It's basically reassembling deck chairs on a really messy and horribly complex system": Q&A with Chris Edwards, CATO's Director of Tax Policy
Q&A with the president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Senate Republicans will probably vote before the new Democratic senator is sworn in.
Republicans will regret this the next time a budget-busting Democratic proposal comes along.