Michael Hiltzik on one of the most insidious American corporate activities of the New Gilded Age--moving their official operations abroad to nations with lower corporate tax rates while keeping all actual operations in the U.S. This is called an inversion and it is nothing more...
taxes
I'm not an expert on tax policy, but if taxing hedge funds at 20% could be changed to 39% at Obama's orders, obviously this should be done yesterday.
Alex Pareene makes a lot of sense on progressives giving up on campaign donations as an issue and instead focuing on a much better idea that will also help solve.
I have a long-running hate of the Times Room for Debate feature. Giving a bunch of people 100 words to make a case just feeds both sides do it syndrome. That's especially true since the feature consistently combines scholars and experts with crazy people. Take...
I'm generally skeptical of tax credits to businesses and I'd like to see them all eliminated were the government and everyday citizens to be empowered to fill in the gaps.
I really don't think Lawrence Kotlikoff's idea to abolish all corporate income taxes is very good. In recent decades, American workers have suffered one body blow after another: the decline.
Apple. I don't think it'd be unreasonable to seize Apple's assets until it came to a reasonable agreement on its tax bill.
You might think the Cypriot banking system is little more than a corporate off-shore scam. And you'd be at least partly right. But the U.S. has some pretty special state.
A hearty Happy 100th Birthday to the graduated income tax, one of the greatest laws in American history. The 16th Amendment was ratified on February 3, 1913. I wrote about.
Some dude won $75,000 by making a half-court shot at a basketball game. The story on ESPN: said dude has to pay, gasp, taxes on his earnings! The horror. The horror.
Also known as my latest Alternet piece. In part: At first, Americans did not protest much against the end of the income tax, but with skyrocketing income inequality of the.
What is the flag of the United States of America? I bet you thought it was this: Such a nice flag. Doesn't it want to make you eat some apples,.