Tax Foundation's Tax Policy Podcast

This week Manager of Communications Richard Morrison talks with Tax Foundation President Scott Hodge about Scott's recent testimony before a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on equity in the federal tax code. More on income taxes...

This week Manager of Communications Richard Morrison talks with Florida TaxWatch Vice President of Tax Research Kurt Wenner about the fate of Gov. Rick Scott's tax reform and budget proposals. More on Florida taxes here.

This week Manager of Communications Richard Morrison talks with Tax Foundation Programmer and Analyst Nick Kasprak about his newsest creation, the Marginal Tax Rates Calcualtor. The new online offering joins the rest of the resources available at the interactive section of the Tax Foundation website. Watch...

This week Manager of Communications Richard Morrison talks with Ashley Denault, Director of Research at the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council, about the tax provisions in the FY2012 budget outline proposed by Gov. Lincoln Chafee.

This week Manager of Communications Richard Morrison talks with Staff Economist Kail Padgitt about this year's Tax Freedom Day®, trends in tax burdens and how the increasing federal budget deficit has changed the way we estimate the cost of government.

This week Manager of Communications Richard Morrison talks with Vermont Blue Ribbon Tax Structure Commission member William Schubart. The Commission, created by the state legislature, consists of three members who evaluated Vermont's current tax structure and issued a major report suggesting a number of...

This week Manager of Communications Richard Morrison talks with Mercatus Center research fellow Matthew Mitchell about his recent look into the effects of state tax and expenditure limits. His study, TEL It Like It Is: Do State Tax and Expenditure Limits Actually Limit Spending? examines the various policies states have adopted to curb their budgets and how they've...

This week Manager of Communications Richard Morrison talks with Tax Foundation President Scott A. Hodge about his latest study, Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact No. 261, "Countdown to #1: 2011 Marks 20th Year That U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Is Higher than OECD Average." The U.S. corporate tax rate will soon become the highest in the industrialized world. As other...

This week Manager of Communications Richard Morrison talks with Tax Foundation staff economists Kail Padgitt and Mark Robyn. Kail explains the tax changes proposed in Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's recently-unveiled budget proposal, and Mark takes on the tax package being championed by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy. For more information, see Tax...

This week Manager of Communications Richard Morrison talks with Maurice A. Thompson, executive director of the Ohio-based 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, about the legal debate over taxes vs. fees and the case of Drees Company v. Hamilton Township,...

This week Manager of Communications Richard Morrison talks with staff economist Mark Robyn about his new study, Special Report No. 189, "State-Local Tax Burdens Fall in 2009 as Tax Revenues Shrink Faster than Income."  Read more about tax burdens here.

This week Manager of Media Relations Richard Morrison interviews economist and American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Aparna Mathur on corporate taxes and her new study (with co-author Kevin Hassett), "Report Card of Effective Corporate Tax Rates: United States Gets an F." Read more about corporate income taxes ...

This week Manager of Media Relations Richard Morrison talks with Tax Foundation Analyst and Programmer Nick Kasprak about our new online data tools and calculators. The tools include a value added tax calculator, a database of local property tax data for every county in the nation, information about state-to-state migration, and a state spending limits application that allows users to see what...

This week Manager of Media Relations Richard Morrison interviews Nina Olson, the Internal Revenue Service's National Taxpayer Advocate. Ms. Olson's most recent report to Congress, The Time for Tax Reform Is Now, identifies the most serious problems encountered by taxpayers and makes recommendations for improving the federal tax code. For more...

This week Manager of Media Relations Richard Morrison interviews Tax Counsel and Director of State Projects Joseph Henchman about his latest Special Report, "State Tax Changes During 2010."

This week we talk with Prof. Christine Ries of Georgia Tech about her experience serving on Georgia's  Council on Tax Reform and Fairness. The council recently evaluated the state's tax structure and issued a report with a list of reforms, focusing on eliminating special credits and exemptions, lowering income tax rates, and broadening the base of the sales tax.  For more information, see the...

On this week's podcast, we talk with J. Thomas Johnson, President of the Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois, about the individual and corporate income tax hikes recently passed by the General Assembly. For more information, see Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact No. 256, "Illinois Approves Sharp Income Tax Increase, Third-Highest Corporate Tax Rate...

On this week's podcast, we talk with Tax Foundation President Scott A. Hodge about the headline developments in tax policy we saw in 2010 and what we can expect from policymakers and politicians in 2011.

On this week's podcast, Tax Foundation Staff Economist Kail Padgitt, Ph.D., discusses the recently released State Business Tax Climate Index for 2011, with a focus on the states of New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhose Island). The Index ranks the tax systems of the 50 states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst). For more...

On this week's podcast, Tax Foundation Staff Economist Kail Padgitt, Ph.D., discusses the recently released State Business Tax Climate Index for 2011, with a focus on the states of the Pacific West (Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Alaska, and Hawaii). The Index ranks the tax systems of the 50 states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst). For more...