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A couple of followup points re my post on claiming-race taxation .  One, my friend Scott tells me that he has heard--though he admits he ha...

I'm very far from being an expert at this sort of thing but I think I understand the bare mechanics of a claiming race . You enter you...

The IRS' online tax-pay systems seems never to have heard of the quarterly estimated income tax.  Too bad I didn't owe the excise t...

Not sure that two or three swallows make a summer but I notice an interesting blip of curiosity in my newsfeed on the issue of "tax exp...

Like (I suppose) taxpayers everywhere, I gobbled up James B. Stewart's New York Times story this morning on his personal taxes : Stewar...

Some lefties hoot at Mitt Romney for saying that  "corporations are people."   Others say it's cheap shot.  I  lean towards th...

Walter Bagehot, marveling at the persistent habit of the United States government to run budget surpluses, laments that it's not likely ...

I don't know about you, but I've always found quarterly estimated tax payments to be a bleeping nuisance.  It's not really the m...

A while back I had a borderline-civil exchange with another blogger over the voting rights of public employees--should they be allowed to vo...

Joel flags us to this Dana Milbank piece about rich people who want to pay more taxes. "I'm in favor of higher taxes on people lik...

Tom, Schaller, fisking Jonah Goldberg , takes time to introduce some useful clarity into the debate over the taxes we pay. He works off thi...

Pete Davis has found the culprit: the "subsidy" (as he calls it) of corporate debt via the deductibility of interest paid by corp...

The argumentative among us might like to comment this to memory ( link ): Let's pick ten Republican or near-Republican senators typicall...

... is there anything on this list to which any serious policy wonk could possibly object ( link )? Remarkable how straightforward and inte...

This is apparently a few years old, but it's new to me, and it made me laugh: There is an oft-repeated saying about the VAT made by Lar...

Some more things I know about taxes, I think: “Flat tax” can mean at least three different things: --A single rate (18.2 percent?) for...

Some things I know about taxes, I think: In the USA, we paid 27.5 percent of GDP in taxes (including social security as a “tax”) in 2005, of...