Econ 309 Taxing Wealth

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Class notes on Taxing Risk Taking, Wealth, Capital Gains

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Read:  

• • John Oliver on Corporate Taxation, Last Week Tonight, April 15, 2018

    • The Double-Irish Dutch Sandwich, Tim Taylor, July 2014

  • John Stewart on General Electric's tax bill, The Daily Show, March 28, 2011

  • Great analysis of tax avoidance through transfer pricing (Fresh Air, March 17, 2011)

  • The many, many loopholes in corporate taxation (David Leonhardt, New York Times, February 2, 2011)

Class notes on Corporate Taxation

For interest:

• • Kellogg's Joshua Rauh on the problem of state and local pensions 

  • The estate tax (Richard Thaler, New York Times, November 7, 2010)

  • A history of how the estate tax lost favor in the US (David Runciman, London Review of Books, June 2, 2005)

  • Would people move if states raised their tax rates?  (New York Times, March 19, 2009)

  • What if we provided an IRA to encourage homemakers to save?  (Slate, Sept. 13, 1996)

  • Tax rules and Leveraged Buyouts in the 1980s (Forbes, Nov. 28, 1988)

For amusement:

• • Just watch this, OK?  Watch it.  (Daily Show, March 28, 2011)

  • Dilbert, Dilbert!, Dilbert!!  Gotta give Scott Adams respect for his understanding of rent seeking

  • State and local taxes...and NBA team winning percentages (Carpe Diem, July 1, 2011)