In testimony before the President's Task Force on Tax Reform, Alan D. Viard describes ways to simplify and improve the federal income tax system.

Consolidating tax credits would help resolve problems of targeting and awareness, thus making them a better tool for alleviating poverty.

At this event, AEI resident scholar Andrew Biggs will address members of the Savings and Retirement Forum about the present system and propose reforms that could create a more transparent and effective retirement program.

Joseph Antos' analysis of Medicare's fiscal crisis and reform options that could make the program sustatainable; a response to a request from 16 health professionals elected to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for public comment on Medicare reform. 

The tax code is 5,296 pages long and full of complicated details. We outlined a few of them in our recent column for the New York Times Magazine. So why hasn't Congress done anything to simplify the tax code? We posed the question to Alan D. Viard, a tax expert at the American Enterprise Institute. His response is below.

Karlyn Bowman is a senior fellow and Andrew Rugg is a research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute. The views expressed in this article are the authors' and do not necessarily reflect those of any other person or institution.

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