This book by Alan Viard and Robert Carroll proposes to completely replace the income tax system with a progressive consumption tax.

Leonard E. Burman's tax and health care reform proposal would be a considerable improvement over the policies that are likely to prevail in the absence of reform.

Religion plays an important role in the lives of many Americans, but up until now economists have done relatively little research on the implications of religiosity and its effect on economic outcomes. In an important series of new papers, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber has explored the factors that drive religious...

The individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) is a tax system parallel to the regular income tax: taxpayers are required to pay taxes under the AMT whenever it yields a larger liability than the regular tax. Under current law, more than 20 million taxpayers, including many middle-class households, will pay the...

We used to have overleveraged banks; we replaced them with overleveraged governments. If Greece goes down, almost every Western government will be at risk.

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In 2005, the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform put forward a tax plan that would replace most, but not all, of the federal income tax with a progressive consumption tax. Known as the Bradford X-tax, this...

If a value added tax is adopted, the revenue should be used to eliminate the corporate income tax and the Medicare portion of the payroll and self-employment taxes.