Taxes – Capital Policy Analytics

The Annual Renewal of Dubious Tax Provisions Is No Substitute for Real Reform

November 30, 2016

This article originally appeared in the Cato Blog. Click here to read the full article. By Ike Brannon and Gordon Gray Ike Brannon of Capital Policy Analytics and Gordon Gray of the American Action Forum warn against an attempt in the lame-duck session to revive ‘‘orphan’’ tax breaks not made permanent at the end of … More The Annual Renewal of Dubious Tax Provisions Is No Substitute for Real Reform

Conservatives Should Buy Obama’s Tax Increase- If He Makes it Bigger

January 21, 2015

This article originally appeared at the Weekly Standard. Click here to read the full story. By Ike Brannon Republicans have been tripping over one another to slag President Obama’s tax proposal, made in his State of the Union address, to repeal the step-up in basis on inherited wealth and use the revenue it would generate … More Conservatives Should Buy Obama’s Tax Increase- If He Makes it Bigger

How to Make the Inversion Problem Even Worse

October 21, 2014

This article originally appeared at the Weekly Standard. Click here to read the full article. By Ike Brannon Amidst the clichéd rhetoric decrying “unpatriotic” companies that accompanied the Obama administration’s recent move to address corporate inversions, it was easy to miss the fact that there is relatively little of substance that can be remedied via … More How to Make the Inversion Problem Even Worse

The IRS’s War on Locum Tenens

October 13, 2014

This article originally appeared in Regulation. Click here to read the full article. By Ike Brannon The most life-changing innovation to come along since my family moved to our urban neighborhood in Washington, D.C., a decade ago has been the appearance of Uber, the app that allows someone to easily hail a ride using a … More The IRS’s War on Locum Tenens

How to Stop Corporate Inversions and Make U.S. Businesses more Competitive

August 1, 2014

This article originally appeared at Economics21. Click here to read the full article. By Ike Brannon The food fight over corporate inversions – whereby a U.S. company moves its domicile overseas to avoid paying U.S. taxes on future income earned abroad – shows no sign of diminishing in the near future. For good reason. Democrats … More How to Stop Corporate Inversions and Make U.S. Businesses more Competitive

The Administration’s Cynical Fight Against Corporate Inversions

July 23, 2014

This article originally appeared at the Weekly Standard. Click here to read the full article. By Ike Brannon A wizened soul who worked in the bowels of the United States Treasury in the Eisenhower administration once explained to me all that is wrong with the U.S. tax code. He opined that every so often politicians … More The Administration’s Cynical Fight Against Corporate Inversions

No, Corporate Tax Inversions Are Not An Unpatriotic Economic Crisis

July 22, 2014

This article originally appeared at The Federalist. Click here to read the full article. By Ike Brannon Nothing attests to the desperation the Obama administration faces in finding an economic meme to their liking than their claim that the recent uptick in corporate inversions represents a crisis. Exhibit One in this manufactured crisis is Treasury … More No, Corporate Tax Inversions Are Not An Unpatriotic Economic Crisis

Income Inequality and the NBA

April 14, 2014

This article originally appeared in Regulation. Click here to read the full article. By Ike Brannon If income inequality in the United States is growing, how much effort should we put into reversing it? The answer to that question depends on the answers to two further questions: how much would dampening inequality also dampen economic … More Income Inequality and the NBA

The Tax Reform Chasm Widens

December 26, 2013

This article originally appeared in the George W. Bush Institute. Click here to read the full article. By Ike Brannon If the cliché is true that D.C. is simply high school writ large, then the annual dinner of the Tax Foundation is its party for nerds who can’t get dates to the prom. Every November … More The Tax Reform Chasm Widens

Tax Reform: Break-Up Edition

December 12, 2013

This article originally appeared at the George W. Bush Institute. Click here for the original article. By Ike Brannon As I was finishing graduate school I began dating a comely woman who happened to be in her last year of school as well. A couple of months into what I thought was a pretty good … More Tax Reform: Break-Up Edition

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