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Ranking Unemployment Insurance Taxes on the 2020 State Business Tax Climate Index

Policymakers Should Not Resuscitate the Medical Device Tax

Expensing Provisions Should Not Favor Physical Over Human Capital

Investments in worker training and education can increase productivity and economic output as growth in human capital accumulates, though the time horizon for these effects is longer than that of physical capital accumulation.

Analysis of the Restoring Tax Fairness for States and Localities Act

Germany’s Tax System: Developments and Competitiveness

Evaluating Mark-to-Market Taxation of Capital Gains

The success of any mark-to-market system lies in its ability to accurately value tangible and non-tangible (or non-tradable) assets such as intellectual property and brand-value recognition. Administrative regulations, guidance, and enforcement are the Achilles’ heel of any plan to annually tax accrued gains.

Germany’s Plans for a Financial Transaction Tax

Biden’s Minimum Book Income Tax Proposal Would Create Needless Complexity

Utah Passes Tax Reform Bill in Special Session

Two Years After Passage, Treasury Regulations for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Surpass 1,000 Pages

Treasury released final regulations on the base erosion and anti-abuse tax (BEAT), which is meant to dissuade firms from engaging in profit shifting abroad. Other high-profile releases from 2019 include final regulations guiding enforcement of Section 199A, commonly known as the pass-through deduction; final regulations on enforcing the new tax on global intangible low-tax income (GILTI); and final regulations on state-level workarounds to the $10,000 limit on the state and local tax deduction (SALT).