Taxes

In America today, thanks to glaring loopholes in the tax code, even modestly competent tax attorneys can help their wealthy clients sidestep the federal estate tax almost entirely. By Bob...

Americans are gaining, ever so slowly, a more accurate picture of just how wide the gap has stretched between the nation's most fabulously privileged and everyone else. [caption id="attachment_5832" align="alignright"...

Who’s going to emerge as the real winner once the ‘IRS scandal’ dust settles? Only the awesomely affluent among us benefit when we have an underfunded — and ineffective —...

Back in 1776, public-spirited patriots emerged from the ranks of colonial America's privileged. But our corporate elite today seems to offer up only thieving, tax-dodging parasites. Why such a contrast?...

Over half America’s financial wealth is generating income not subject to current federal income taxation. The fourth in an Inequality.Org series on the giant pools of assets in America that...

A new report from the International Labour Organization shows that across G20 countries corporate profits are up, up, up. Since the year 2000 corporate profits as a proportion of total...

America's deep pockets, a new report shows, are saving big bucks from a wide assortment of federal income tax breaks. They're saving even more from the absence of a wealth...

As the recession that began in late 2007 drags through its sixth year, people are finally starting to ask if maybe inequality is to blame. After all, slow growth throughout...

Sales taxes — of whatever stripe — fall harder on poorer than richer customers. And they squeeze smaller retailers more than big ones. When I visited my brother in London...