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Watch: Tax Foundation Experts Discuss Short-term Coronavirus Relief Packages

1 min readBy: Daniel Bunn, Karl Smith, Jared Walczak

The coronavirus crisis demands urgent solutions but also careful consideration. How can governments best deliver immediate relief while ensuring that taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. policies remain simple, transparent, neutral, and stable? 

What tax changes have different levels of government already enacted to address the crises and what can they learn from each other? 

What could the next phase of relief look like and what role does tax policy play in ensuring the U.S. and countries around the world make a strong economic recovery? 

Three top Tax Foundation experts tackle these questions and others in a new video discussion 

As the U.S. federal, state, and local governments, as well as countries around the world, are implementing emergency measures to support their economies amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) threat, our experts are providing trusted analysis of the latest tax policy developments to better inform policymakers, journalists, and taxpayers.

Among our other resources, you can explore our state-by-state legislative tracker and our country-by-country fiscal measures tracker, where we will be tracking and and analyzing the latest coronavirus tax updates in the United States and around the world.

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About the Authors

Daniel Bunn Tax Foundation President & CEO
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Daniel Bunn

President and CEO

Daniel Bunn is President and CEO of the Tax Foundation. Daniel has been with the organization since 2018 and, prior to becoming President, successfully built its Center for Global Tax Policy, expanding the Tax Foundation’s reach and impact around the world. Prior to joining the Tax Foundation, Daniel worked in the United States Senate at the Joint Economic Committee.

Karl Smith

Karl Smith

Adjunct Scholar

Karl Smith is an adjunct scholar with the Tax Foundation, where he advises on federal tax and economic issues.

Mr. Smith is also a member of the editorial board at Bloomberg and an opinion columnist there, where he writes on a broad range of current economic issues.

Prior to Bloomberg, Mr. Smith was a professor of economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Smith holds a PhD in economics from North Carolina State University.

Jared Walczak Tax Foundation
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Jared Walczak

Senior Fellow

Jared Walczak is a Senior Fellow at the Tax Foundation, where he spent five years as Vice President of State Projects, and president of Walczak Policy Consulting.