by Dan Mitchell | Apr 18, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
April 15 is usually the worst day of the year, giving Americans ample reasons to both laugh and cry.* Because of a holiday in Washington, D.C., however, tax returns this year are due on April 18. So let’s celebrate (or commiserate) this awful...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Biden’s tax-and-spend budget plan is based on dishonesty, and I’m just talking about his preposterous claim that a massive expansion of government has “zero cost.” On the outlay side of the fiscal ledger, he’s actually proposing to increase the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
I sometimes try to go easy on the IRS. After all, our wretched tax system is largely the fault of politicians, who have spent the past 108 years creating a punitive and corrupt set of tax laws. But there is...
by Brian Garst | Jun 9, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation, Uncategorized
ProPublica’s outgoing president called its recent story on the tax returns of wealthy Americans “the most important story we have ever published.” Discerning readers were surely disappointed then to find not a bombshell, but a giant nothing burger....
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Whenever I’m asked about the “tax gap,” I point to the academic evidence, from multiple sources, and explain that lower tax rates and tax reform are the best way to get higher levels of tax compliance. Indeed, even the pro-tax International...
