Taxes

At a city council hearing, economic justice advocates helped build momentum behind a proposed surtax on extreme CEO-worker pay gaps.

After the election, we need to focus on forcing the next president to address inequality and fix our upside down tax code.

Much like advocates for a federal minimum wage increase, CEO pay reformers are realizing that national change may need to bubble up from the grassroots.

In 1944, the year billionaire investor Warren Buffett first paid income tax, Americans ‘soaked the rich’ — and benefited mightily from the soaking.

Veteran tax reformer Bob McIntyre brings a historical perspective to the Trump tax-dodging scandal — and rates the best and worst American presidents on tax fairness.

The tax code is riddled with loopholes that enable the wealthy to avoid paying their fair share. Here are the ones Donald Trump likely used. 

If our leaders want to be taken seriously when they rant about runaway CEO pay, they need to embrace solutions that’ll have a real impact.

A loophole created by Bill Clinton in 1993 costs taxpayers billions of dollars per year and perpetuates the reckless Wall Street bonus culture.

In Baltimore, activists are urging city officials to move beyond ‘tax increment financing’ that privileges billionaires at public expense. By Allie Busching [caption id="attachment_12394" align="alignright" width="350"] Baltimore, one affordable-housing activist...