When the new president and Congress take office in 2009, they will face several critical tax policy decisions: Should the income tax rate cuts and the reductions in dividend and capital gains taxes adopted in 2001 and 2003 be made permanent? Should the corporate income tax and the taxation of...

What have economists learned from the Bush tax cuts and other tax policies that can inform tax policy debates in the next decade?

What have economists learned from the Bush tax cuts and other tax policies that can inform tax policy debates in the next decade?

This volume is an invaluable guide for policymakers facing important decisions about environmental taxation, marginal tax rates, dividend taxation, and the taxation of business investment.

Alan D. Viard and contributors offer an invaluable guide for policymakers facing important decisions about a variety of taxes.

As Washington waits for President Obama’s plan on how to revive the economy and pull us out of our 9 percent unemployment rut, a growing chorus on the left is calling for us to go to war—or at least the economic equivalent of war.

The U.S. corporate governance system has recently been heavily criticized, largely as a result of failures at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and some other prominent companies.

The first prerequisite for sound tax policy is a clear and consistent articulation of the impact of marginal tax rates on economic growth.