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12 Sep 2022, 9:00 pm by Kyle Hulehan
Key Findings Massachusetts’ tax advantage in New England is primarily driven by its competitive individual income tax rate and its sales and use tax structure. [read post]
30 Aug 2022, 1:55 am by Kyle Hulehan
Key Findings 100 percent bonus depreciation allows firms an immediate tax deduction for investments in qualifying short-lived assets. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 3:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
Feldstein and Wrobel (1998) examined the question of whether state and local governments can effectively redistribute income through taxation and transfers. [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 11:57 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  When I was in graduate school in Economics, the late Professor Martin Feldstein was somewhat infamous among the students for his annual lectures (to his undergraduate class as well as to his graduate macroeconomics course) in which he aggressively and emphatically downplayed the importance of unemployment. [read post]
23 Mar 2021, 7:50 am by Kevin Kaufman
” The concern about incentive effects, such as whether unemployment compensation reduces incentives to find a new job, largely came about due to the work of economist Martin Feldstein, who argued that unemployment compensation increased unemployment because it incentivized longer durations and temporary jobs or seasonal patterns of employment. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 7:33 am by Colby Pastre
Martin Feldstein (center) is awarded the 1999 Tax Foundation Distinguished Service Award for his private-sector contributions to tax policy as president of the National Bureau of Economic Research. [read post]
5 Nov 2018, 3:13 pm by Heather Donkers
” Erin Durant, Lisa Feldstein, Andrew Bigioni, Christine Ashton, Ari Singer, Jeremy Martin, Robin Parker, Anne-Marie McElroy, Paul Doroshenko and Molly Reynolds all suggested getting rid of routine in-person set date appearances, perhaps in favour of an online system or uncontested scheduling appearances by phone. [read post]
5 Nov 2018, 3:13 pm by Heather Donkers
” Erin Durant, Lisa Feldstein, Andrew Bigioni, Christine Ashton, Ari Singer, Jeremy Martin, Robin Parker, Anne-Marie McElroy, Paul Doroshenko and Molly Reynolds all suggested getting rid of routine in-person set date appearances, perhaps in favour of an online system or uncontested scheduling appearances by phone. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 10:58 am by Colby Pastre
Key Findings Early analysis of the distribution of the corporate income tax relied on theoretical models and thought experiments. [read post]
11 Sep 2017, 12:29 pm by Paul Caron
Brookings Symposium on Business Tax Reform: Alan Auerbach (UC-Berkeley), Demystifying the Destination-Based Cash Flow Tax Martin Feldstein (Harvard), Options for Corporate Tax Reform, 2017 Gita Gopinath (Harvard), A Macro Perspective on Border Taxes James Hines (Michigan), Business Tax Burdens and Tax Reform The U.S. corporate tax rate is one of... [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 2:00 am by Shuyi Oei
Martin Feldstein (WSJ op-ed), How to Make the Tax System Fairer and Save Social Security: The U.S. faces two major fiscal problems. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 12:51 pm by Daniel Shaviro
Today in the Wall Street Journal,  a Martin Feldstein op-ed on border adjustment argued that its flaws are purely "illusory," since "[f]oreign exporters would pay for the Republicans' proposed trillion-dollar tax cut").Whatever one thinks about the merits of border adjustment, this op-ed does not appear to be an entirely above-board intellectual exercise. [read post]
24 Dec 2015, 7:16 am by Daniel Shaviro
"  It's not just half-full versus half-empty.I'm disappointed that "responsible" people on the seemingly adult right, like Martin Feldstein and Glenn Hubbard, either actually want to do the sorts of things Bush advocates, or feel bound to act as if they do. [read post]
21 Nov 2015, 8:57 am by Daniel Shaviro
 And I missed a lunch talk, I believe by Jim Poterba, that I would have expected to be quite interesting.I did get to hear a lunch talk by Martin Feldstein, addressing why he thinks we should change tax policy in the ways that he thinks we should change it. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 7:40 am by Tom Smith
The Federal Reserve now faces the tough task of unwinding the easy-money policy that has helped bring about the current solid economic upturn. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 8:56 am by Emma Durand-Wood
— Lisa Feldstein (@lisafeldstein) December 5, 2014Time to nominate your favourite Cdn legal blog. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 4:03 pm by Tom Smith
Inflation is rising in the United States and could become a serious problem sooner than the Federal Reserve and many others now recognize. [read post]