This article appeared in The Daily Caller.

As Americans scramble to finish their federal taxes before Tuesday’s deadline, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P) reminds taxpayers, politicians and voters of the tremendous hidden burden placed on Americans by the complicated federal US tax code. In a popular video first released in 2010 as part of CF&P’s Economics 101 series titled, “The Onerous Compliance Cost of the Internal Revenue Code,” narrator Hiwa Alaghebandian examines how corrupt loopholes and rising paperwork force taxpayers to devote ever larger amounts of time, energy, resources, and money in hopes of figuring out the right number to put on their tax returns.

The Washington Times recently reported that the D.C. Council’s plan to introduce a “jock tax” will need an unlikely vote from Capitol Hill to succeed. Hopefully for D.C. sports fans the proposal will fail. What is a “jock tax,” you might ask? It is an income tax levied on non-resident professional athletes who perform within […]

This video shows that the corrupt mess we call a tax code is the result of 97 years of social engineering and industrial policy that began almost immediately after that dark day in 1913 that the income tax was created.

President Obama and other politicians are advocating higher taxes, with a particular emphasis on class-warfare taxes targeting the so-called rich. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity video explains why fiscal policy based on hate and envy is fundamentally misguided.

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity, joined by more than 30 of the country’s largest and most influential free-market groups, applauded Rep. Bill Thomas, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, for trying to fix the provisions of the tax code that make it difficult for U.S.-based companies to compete in international markets. In […]