Public economics seeks to understand how governments design and implement tax policies to fund public goods while balancing efficiency and equity. Taxation and revenue studies investigate the ...

Issues from our nation’s taxation and budgeting processes are fundamental challenges we face. Congress will bicker and bloviate about them for weeks and then probably kick the dented can a few feet ...

Economist Arthur Laffer spoke to a full lecture hall on the economic incentives of lowering taxes on the rich in an event hosted by the Ciceronian Society and sponsored by the Young America's ...

A recent push for "reciprocity" in international taxation has gained traction, based on the claim that American companies pay disproportionately high taxes abroad while foreign firms pay far less in ...

CONCORD — Despite politicians’ claims of business tax rate cuts spurring the state’s economy, a recent study indicates the state’s economy would grow faster by putting additional money in the hands of ...

Nov. 18, 2017 -- . In North Carolina, 50 percent of the federal tax cuts in the Senate bill would go to the richest 5 percent of residents, and 13 percent of households would face a tax increase. The ...

IF YOU want to put a policymaker on the spot, ask them what the top rate of income tax should be. The question befuddles everyone. On May 8th President Donald Trump broke with decades of Republican ...

The Senate is debating an extension of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and passage of additional policies such as no tax on tips and overtime and a new tax credit on Social Security benefits. As the ...