taxation

The debate over progressive taxation in Washington state has been building for months, with the tech community largely alarmed by what it sees as a hostility toward business in the region. Read More

HMRC confirms it will fight London tax tribunal’s finding that it has been overcharging for years under the law EV charging shake-up looks to help UK households solve off-street parking problem The UK’s tax authorities have decided to fight against a ruling that would cut VAT across all public electric car chargers, despite a judge finding they have been overcharging for years under the law. Char…

Amreen Hassan, Manav Rachna University Sneha, Manav Rachna University ABSTRACT This research is especially focused on the changing relationship between the tax system of India and equality as it operates in the Constitution. The research is expected to explore the critical examination of constitutional provisions, significant judicial pronouncements, and how tax policy development and practice by…

Ah, Tax Day.  If you’ve been staring at your tax bill and wondering how to keep more of your money, money, money to yourself next year, you might consider taking a page out of the billionaire’s playbook. You could be like Steve Ballmer and write off the costs of buying a sports team, or make […]

Americans are getting crankier about paying taxes.  Most people don’t enjoy paying Uncle Sam, but for much of the 2000s and 2010s, a sizable percentage of Americans thought that the amount of federal taxes they paid was “about right,” according to Gallup. But recently, the share saying their taxes were “too high” has been climbing; […]

The so-called "millionaires tax," which would create a 9.9% tax on income that exceeds $1 million, has drawn opposition from some tech leaders and entrepreneurs. Read More

A new bill proposal would increase Washington’s capital gains tax by adding a 2.9% surtax on annual investment profits over… Read More

Jeb Bush has released a tax plan . Here are some elements of it that I find attractive: It lowers the top rate on personal income to 28 percent, the same rate as the bipartisan 1986 tax reform. It broadens the base by capping the use of itemized deductions. It eliminates the deductibility of state and local taxes, so low-tax states and towns no longer subsidize high-tax ones. It maintains the ded…

The Tobin (or Robin Hood) Tax was proposed decades ago by the eponymous Nobel Laureate (that’s James Tobin, not Robin Hood) as a means of stabilizing currencies via a small tax on all transactions. Every [...]