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Why do quarters have ridges, and what does it have to do with taxes (and inflation!)

In my class, the very first tax law I mention, on slide two of day one, is named “An Act for Granting to His Majesty Several Rates or Duties Upon Houses for Making Good the Deficiency of the Clipped Money”.

What’s in a (tax) name?

The destination based cash flow tax, or, as it was loving referred to among the large circle of economists who loved it, the DBCFT, was, at least in the minds of it supporters, an amazing tax.

Academic Taxtivists

President Biden released a budget on Monday that called for such things as increasing the corporate tax rate and taxing the accruals on capital gains of folks with more than $100 million in assets (the taxiverse has yet to converge on a catchy name for this tax).

What to do when the government has too much money?

At the beginning of the pandemic, we thought state finances would be crushed.

Do the Girls Scouts have to pay taxes on all that cookie cash?

If you are a for profit company, or an individual, generally any income you receive, from any source, is taxable.

Is Inflation a Tax?

Tax Notes, a key practitioner publication for tax professions, recently ran an article that was headlined “Is Inflation a Tax?

What does Martin Luther King Day have to do with taxes?

Martin Luther King Jr. has a lot to do with taxes, as does any interesting and important topic, person, event, or anything else.

How many billionaires are there, and how much are they worth?

There have been recent proposals to tax the wealth, and income, of the extremely wealthy, which for whatever reason we have started calling billionaires.

Welcome to our new blog, Write-Off: The Tax Blog

Welcome to our new blog, Write-Off: The Tax Blog, hosted by the UNC Tax Center. The purpose of this blog is to provide original, useful, compelling and timely tax information to the general public, especially those with an interest in tax policy.