First, France: Gerard Depardieu has left the country to avoid paying the new top marginal tax rate of 75%. He's apparently moved to Bel...

Foreword: I have promised a fair few posts on other topics, but I caught the bug for this one and felt like getting it out first. More st...

So, last week I traveled from Chapel Hill to Montreal. But I did not fly to Montreal. I flew to Burlington, VT and then took a Greyhound bus...

M.S. : What you're seeing in that divergence between the nominal rate corporations are supposed to pay, and the rate they actually pay a...

Here's an interesting article on how an obscure provision in the U.S. tax code has caused two U.S. territories to go to the mattresses:...

(click on image for bigger version) A few days ago I posted on the recent report that U.S. tax receipts as a percentage of national income ...

As a percentage of income, that is. How many Americans would have guessed this was true? Federal, state and local taxes — including income,...

Very interesting column in the New Yorker by UNC-Chapel Hill graduate James Surowiecki on the American tax code and the incentives built in...

So some rich Germans want to pay more taxes : The group say they have more money than they need, and the extra revenue could fund economic a...