President Trump recently released his tax plan, but he’s also said he wants to stimulate the economy with infrastructure spending. Is one more effective than the other at boosting growth?
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President Trump released details of his tax plan, which would essentially benefit the wealthiest Americans by repealing the estate tax and other changes at the expense of the middle class.
The administration wants to cut the tax rate on so-called pass-through entities, which is likely to lead to creative tax planning and outright evasion, damaging faith in the system.
Workers are getting ABNs and being employed as contractors responsible for their own tax payments. This is undercutting conditions and eroding the most important part of the nation’s tax base.
Theresa May claims the Conservatives have historically been a party of low taxes. Is she right?
What the Labour Party manifesto says about tax and spending – and whether or not it is viable.
Countries that have similar banking levies have seen them passed on to customers.
Stories of financial mismanagement in football have become all too common. Where is the outcry?
eBay still deems its Australian business to be a Swiss business and thereby avoids millions in income tax and GST.
The administration’s plan to significantly cut the tax rate on so-called pass-through entities will likely lead to creative tax planning and outright evasion, damaging faith in the system.
The bar for achieving that lofty goal was set almost 150 years ago when Congress cut taxes from as high as 10 percent to zero over two years.
The burden of filing our taxes appears to be growing, especially for those who tend to wait until the last minute to fill in their 1040s.
As tax day approaches, here’s a primer on how your dollars help fund the U.S. government, and how your share has probably increased.
Tobacco tax increases in Australia that will see a packet of cigarettes costing A$40 may discourage smoking, but will end up having unintended consequences for poorer smokers, new research shows.
Analysis shows that rising inequality over the past 20 years makes it harder to increase taxes and makes citizens less willing to pay them.
Consider these home truths: value capture is a tax, it would need to apply to the family home and deciding which areas it covers would be politically contentious. A broad-based land tax is simpler.
The UK government’s U-turn on a national insurance increase for self-employed people exposes the flaws in its approach to building a stronger and more inclusive economy.
How to make economic sense of the robot revolution.
Philip Hammond delivers his last Spring Budget on the state of the UK economy. Our panel of experts dissect what it says.
New research finds there are significant risks and uncertainties in the complexities of national and international tax systems as applied to internationally mobile employees.
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Visiting Professor of Tax Law, New York University, and Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Deputy Director and Associate Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Visiting Academic, The Open University
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Lecturer in Accounting, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor of Economics (Griffith University) and Teaching Associate (University of Queensland), Griffith University
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne