Oklahoma has a regressive tax system, according to a recent report brought to my attention by colleague Randy Krehbiel. The report from the Institute on Taxation and Policy looks at the effective ...

The top tax rate wealthy Americans pay on their investment gains today runs barely half the top rate the rest of us pay on our wages. But that only begins to tell the story of how lightly taxed our ...

Under state system, low-income families pay a higher proportion of their income than businesses and wealthier families ...

Washington is known for a lot of things: phenomenal outdoor recreation, legal recreational marijuana, a booming tech sector and coffee. It's also infamous for having the most regressive tax system in ...

Picture this: On your way home from work after a long week, you’re pulled over and issued a ticket for rolling through a stop sign. The fine is $75 — but once mandatory fees are tacked on, the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has stated repeatedly that the proposed tax reform will “aim at reducing the tax burden on families and working people, modernising the economy, and encouraging ...

In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, professors David Gamage and Darien Shanske discuss their recent paper, “Money Moves: Taxing the Wealthy at the State Level,” which lays out their argument for a ...

Rachel Reeves should cut council tax for the majority of payers by hiking the top three bands in the Budget, an influential ...

The one big change in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's executive budget for fiscal year 2010 is his proposed increase in the city sales tax from 4.0 percent to 4.5 percent, double the increase he proposed in ...

In the distant past, Republican moderates were people like Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Bob Packwood of Oregon who preached fiscal responsibility and were reasonably tolerant of the ...