Biden Could Provide Business and Household Relief by Eliminating Trump Tariffs
Biden has not specified how he would approach the Trump tariffs, though his advisers have said he will at least review them.
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Increasing the Tax Burden on Capital Investment and Automation Hurts Workers
There has been an ongoing debate about how automation and the use of robots in the workplace has impacted workers’ wages and employment. Recently, MIT and Boston University economists examined whether tax policy favors certain forms of automation that puts workers at a competitive disadvantage.
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No, We Don’t Need a Federal Work-From-Home Tax
A recent Deutsche Bank analysis proposes a federal work-from-home tax (“privilege tax”), which is designed to strip away the financial benefit of remote work.
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New Jersey May Be the First State Without an Excise Tax Levy on Recreational Marijuana
New Jersey’s tax design adds another element to the ongoing experiment with legal recreational marijuana in the states.
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Prospects for Federal Tax Policy After the 2020 Election
President Biden and Congress should concentrate on areas of common ground, finding incremental places to improve the tax code. A bipartisan bill recently introduced to help retirement savings is a good model for what incremental reform may look like.
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Election Analysis: California and Colorado Voters Resist Temptation to Shift More of Property Tax Burden to Businesses
In Tuesday’s election, voters in two states—California and Colorado—were tasked with deciding whether to amend their states’ constitution to change how the property tax burden is distributed. In many ways, the ballot measures were mirror images of each other, but the outcomes were similar.
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Election Analysis: Why Voters Split the Difference on Income Tax Measures
Illinois voters rejected a high graduated rate income tax (“Fair Tax”) while Arizonans embraced a large income tax rate increase for high earners, among the many attention-grabbing results from Tuesday’s elections.
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Election Analysis: Recreational Marijuana Now Legal in Four More States
Voters in four states, Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota, approved ballot measures legalizing recreational marijuana.
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Results of 2020 State and Local Tax Ballot Measures
See the results of the most notable state and local tax ballot measures during Election 2020 with our curated resource page.
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