A new study of the e-cigarette tax in Minnesota has verified the first rule of economics: the more something costs, the less people buy. The study’s authors, mostly National Bureau of Economic Research economists, found Minnesota’s tax...
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If you've been toying with the idea of buying a new Apple laptop, you're probably prepared to pay a pretty penny. What you might not realize though, is that you can often find some surprisingly good deals that completely eliminate the Apple tax....
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Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen thinks that conservatives are finally waking up to the idea that the Republican’s tax policies don’t benefit the bottom line for their families. It has been 16 years since Thomas Frank published his...
This month, a judge ruled that all Microsoft's KPMG documents needed to be turned over because the firm had been dodging taxes.
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The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), which represents about 70,000 IRS employees, on Thursday issued a call for more funding for the agency, as the tax-filing season is set to begin on Monday.“Make no mistake, IRS employees are committed...
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The US official made the comments before his trip to the UK ahead of negotiations on post-Brexit trade, namely how soon a trade deal between the two sides could be inked once Britain leaves the EU at the end of January.
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A limited number of tickets for the general public are now available for the next MinnPost Social, which is planned for Thursday, Feb. 6, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Elsie’s in Minneapolis.
From guns to a gas tax, from prescription drugs to...
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CEOs and political leaders in Davos are talking a lot about companies focusing on more than just profits by being responsible for their employees, their suppliers, and their communities.
One company that has come under some particularly harsh...
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The White House is working on a new tax-cut package focused on boosting economic growth, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday."The president has asked us to start working on what we call 'tax 2.0,'" Mnuchin said in a CNBC interview in...
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Do you work from home? If so, others share your situation. The U.S. Small Business Administration says 60.1% of all firms without paid employees are home-based. The same ca be said for 23.3% of small employer firms, and 0.3% of large employer firms....
Each year, the majority of people who file a tax return wind up with a refund on their hands. Sometimes, that refund is sizable. Otherwise, it's a smaller but appreciated sum.But what if you're in the minority of filers who aren't entitled to a...
The past year has been a busy one for shareholders of eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). The online marketplace's growth rebound fizzled in 2019, with sales falling under the weight of intense competition and added sales taxes in the core U.S. market. Yet...
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Photo courtesy of Pixabay.comA recent NBER working paper by a distinguished team of economists argues that a properly designed carbon tax can be a generational win-win. The team, led by Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University, also...
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On Tuesday, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire admitted that Paris’ talks with Washington on the taxation of digital companies “remained difficult” even though the two sides vowed to shun a trade war.
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Economics textbooks are full of clever-and-appealing policy proposals. Proposals like: “Let’s redistribute money to the desperately poor” and “Let’s tax goods with negative externalities.” They’re so...
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Eight years ago, the IRS, tired of seeing the country’s largest corporations fearlessly stash billions in tax havens, decided to take a stand. The agency...
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