by Dan Mitchell | Jun 22, 2025 | Blogs, Taxation
Back in 2013, I debated Joe Biden’s top economist on the death tax. Everything I said then (and wrote four years before then) is still true today. In the interview, I mentioned nations that have abolished their death taxes, including Australia. I should...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
One of the most unfortunate features of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is that it expands the deduction for state and local taxes, thus weakening one of the best provisions of the 2017 tax package. This is bad news since it is foolish to have a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 4, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Taxation
I wrote back in 2016 that the health care exclusion was the worst loophole in America’s monstrosity of a tax code. Today’s column will explain why that is still true and we’ll begin with this short explainer video from the folks at Kite &...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2025 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The American Spectator on May 30, 2025. Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts are set to expire at the end of the year, but thankfully, Congress is taking action. The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which...
by Dan Mitchell | May 11, 2025 | Blogs, Taxation
When I write about America’s awful tax code, I generally focus on anti-growth policies such as high tax rates, the bias against saving and investment, and nightmarish and costly complexity. But there’s actually a fourth problem of “worldwide taxation”...
