by Dan Mitchell | Apr 16, 2026 | Blogs, Taxation
People sometimes will get excited about big-picture tax fights – whether politicians should raise taxes, whether they should add a VAT, or whether they should scrap the IRS for a flat tax. On the other had, there are a handful of tax issues that induce...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 24, 2024 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I was very confident that Senator Elizabeth Warren was going to be 2024’s Politician of the Year. After all, not only is she a hypocrite on school choice and taxes, she’s also a hypocrite on the environment. All of that is impressive, albeit in a...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 23, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
Senator Elizabeth Warren is a particularly noxious politician. It’s not just that she’s a doctrinaire leftist on a wide range of issues (class warfare, corporate governance, government spending, business taxation, cronyism, wealth...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve written about some boring and arcane tax issues – most of which are only relevant because we don’t have a simple and fair flat tax. Depreciation vs. expensingTerritorial taxation vs. worldwide taxationGILTI rules for multinational...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
The IRS played partisan politics during the Obama years by targeting taxpayer organizations such “Tea Party” groups. Now the IRS is at it again, this time leaking the tax returns of selected rich people to advance Biden’s...