Taxes

This simple question can’t seem to get a simple answer. A look at some new attempts to explain why.

With outright lies dominating the estate tax debate on Capitol Hill, two Washington Post columnists have incredibly different takes on the untruths of the anti-tax crowd. This week, the Washington...

A new study shows broad public support for taxing the rich.

A message for our cutback-happy governors: We're not broke. We're just keeping too much of our wealth in too few pockets. By Susan Gries [caption id="attachment_8381" align="alignright" width="300"] If our...

The right’s favorite rationale for lowering the taxes rich people pay can make sense, but only if you believe that fairness demands taxing the first dollar of a person’s income...

With all the NFL scandals from this past season, the one that has received the least attention is the easiest to solve: the league’s tax-exempt status.

To clamp down on Wall Street recklessness, we need to be taxing both excessively leveraged financial institutions and short-term speculating. Why does the White House see the two taxes as...

Billions of taxpayer dollars are now going — as ‘incentives’ — to corporations busy stuffing the pockets of America’s richest billionaires. By Philip Mattera [caption id="attachment_7593" align="alignright" width="300"] Intel alone,...

An obscure provision in the Affordable Care Act, a new report details, raises taxes on firms that overpay their top execs. The only problem: The provision so far only applies...