Tax Foundation Tax Policy Blog

The Tax Foundation Tax Policy Blog has posts about tax policies and the foundation's views on how they should be changed.

Author: The Tax Policy Blog is the official blawg of the Tax Foundation, "a non-partisan, non-profit research organization that has monitored tax policy at the federal, state and local levels since 1937." The foundation believes the tax system should be as simple as possible, and taxes should consume as small a portion of national income as possible. One of the authors is William Ahern, the communications director for the foundation.

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Recent Posts from Tax Foundation Tax Policy Blog

Russia to Cut Corporate Taxes, Washington Dithers
File this under "What's wrong with this picture?" Bloomberg is reporting that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced a sweeping economic package to "prevent the kind of financial crises that shook the country after…
Best of the Blogosphere: From Wisconsin to Massachusetts to Obama
The latest sampling from our friends in blogosphere:North Shore Exponent, a blog of the North Shore Strategy and Consulting Group, mentions that Wisconsin is #38 in our State Business Tax Climate Index, declaring that "with…
TF Tax Counsel to Appear on CNN Tonight About Transit Agency/SILO Situation
Tax Foundation Tax Counsel Joe Henchman will be appearing in a segment on Lou Dobbs Tonight tonight on CNN regarding the transit agency/SILO situation. All told some $16 billion in taxpayer-purchased transit assets were sold…
San Jose Tax Counting Every Vote
San Jose, California's Measure B went before voters earlier this month, proposing a 1/8-cent sales tax increase to fund operations of a proposed extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. On the day…
Mike Bloomberg Learns That His Title Is Mayor, not Tax Tsar
My recent Fiscal Fact on New York City's budget shortfall erroneously claimed that the Mayor had the authority to cancel a scheduled $400 property tax rebate without any legislative approval. In fact, the cancellation would…
Maps of State Tax Policy
Wow! The map I posted of state and local combined sales tax rates got over 900 hits yesterday (not counting people just viewing it as they look at the blog) and lots of links. Here…
SILO Update: Belgian Bank Settles, Transit Agencies Lobby for Bailout
We've been tracking a situation hitting 30 transit agencies across the country, as they face huge termination penalties from European banks due to the unravelling of "Sale In Lease Out" (SILO) deals they entered into…
Tax Foundation in College Newspapers, and the Best of the Blogosphere
While it's always nice to see Tax Foundation material cited in the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, we are just as excited when we see our studies in student publications at colleges…
Sales Tax Rate Map
As part of a presentation on interstate tax comparisons I gave recently, I prepared this map of sales taxes in the United States. We combine state sales tax rates with the weighted average of local…
Shock: Realtors Asking for More Handouts from Government
The National Association of Realtors, our favorite lobby here at the Tax Foundation, is pressuring its members to urge Congress to steal on its behalf more from taxpayers. Here's the organization's four-point plan:NAR has urged…