TaxBytes

The IRS has a new idea to extract more tax dollars out of your pocket without having to pass a tax increase.

Using tax code to accomplish social goals is unfair whether you come from the Left or Right.

The media often portray “gridlock” and political disagreement as driven by partisan politics, as if politics is simply about “my team” versus “your team.

Now that we’re finally beginning to talk about tax reform to stimulate economic growth, the “flat tax vs. sales tax” debate has resurfaced.

Competition among the Republican Presidential candidates has resurrected talk of tax reform.

This week yet another corporate leader explained clearly and precisely how the U.

President Obama has appointed Princeton University economics professor Alan Krueger to replace the departing Austan Goolsbee as head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors.

Social Security and Medicare are going broke, primarily because of the way the system is structured.

The debate over the debt ceiling extension dominates the news cycle and political discussions.

Backed into a corner by Republican demands for severe spending restraints as a condition for an extension of the debt ceiling, President Obama has attached a few conditions of his own, among which are eliminating some corporate tax breaks for corporate jets, tax breaks for oil companies, and the like.