Taxation

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Africa in focus

Approaches for better resource mobilization to finance Africa’s Sustainable Development Goals

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Friday, January 17, 2020

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Up Front

Class Notes: Wealth taxation, US wage growth, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

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Upcoming Event

Tackling the Tax Code: Efficient and Equitable Ways to Raise Revenue

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

Washington, DC

Up Front

How could changing capital gains taxes raise more revenue?

Grace Enda and William G. Gale

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Reports

Report

Ten facts about the economics of climate change and climate policy

Ryan Nunn, Jimmy O’Donnell, Jay Shambaugh, Lawrence H. Goulder, Charles D. Kolstad, and Xianling Long

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Policy 2020

How to boost voter registration at tax time

Vanessa Williamson

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Economic Development

Talent-driven economic development: A new vision and agenda for regional and state economies

Joseph Parilla and Sifan Liu

October 15, 2019

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Report

Taxing mobile phone transactions in Africa: Lessons from Kenya

Njuguna Ndung’u

Monday, August 5, 2019

Taxation

Policy insights from comparing carbon pricing modeling scenarios

Alexander R. Barron, Marc A. C. Hafstead, and Adele Morris

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Blog Posts

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The Avenue

Most business incentives don’t work. Here’s how to fix them.

Timothy J. Bartik and John C. Austin

November 4, 2019

Up Front

Class Notes: Taxing billionaires, college course availability, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

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Up Front

Saez and Zucman say that everything you thought you knew about tax policy is wrong

William G. Gale

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

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Experts

Vanessa Williamson

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

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Henry J. Aaron

The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Adam Looney

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Multimedia

A general view of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington May 27, 2015. Tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers was illegally accessed by cyber criminals over the past four months, U.S. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of data thefts that have alarmed American consumers. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000109446

Policy 2020

Who are the rich and how might we tax them more?

David Wessel

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

U.S. Foreign Policy

France is not alone in its plan to tax tech giants

David Dollar and Lilian Faulhaber

Monday, August 19, 2019

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sits under a display of the U.S. national debt as he testifies to the House Financial Services Committee on "The Annual Report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC131089F510

Podcast Episode

How to cure America’s debt addiction (and invest in the future)

William G. Gale and David Wessel

Friday, April 5, 2019

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Reports

Taxing capital income: Mark-to-market and other approaches

Leading carbon price proposals: A bipartisan dialogue

After the midterm elections: Implications for tax policy

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Senior Fellow - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center