Tariffs may help certain industries, but their broader impact on middle- and lower-income consumers is generally harmful.
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The president says he’s fighting his trade war because a generation of free trade has failed working-class Americans. An economist explains why tariffs will only make things worse.
Treasurer Scott Morrison may be happy with a budget in balance by 2019-20, but the rising burden on individual taxpayers is a worry.
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Personal income taxpayers are shouldering more of the burden, while less revenue is coming from taxes on companies, capital and consumption. Only major reforms will change these sustained trends.
Kentucky bourbon is among the products targeted with retaliatory tariffs by the EU.
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Trump has started a trade war with China and much of the world. Here’s what you need to know.
All bottled water comes from somewhere.
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Nestle pays the state a pittance in exchange for its water at a time when public awareness of water issues is rising.
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Seattle City Council tried raising taxes to help the homeless, and now it faces a political firestorm. There are better ways to fight the good fight.
Members of the tea party movement seen rallying outside the Capitol in 2013.
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The tax agency, as it happens, singled out both conservative and liberal groups seeking tax-exempt status for extra scrutiny. But the myth that it picked on the tea party movement hasn’t gone away.
The IRS is friendlier than you think.
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Million of taxpayers receive notices from the IRS about unpaid tax debts. Believe it or not, the agency understands.
What people decide to bequeath to charity depends on many factors, including tax laws.
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Philanthropists give for many different reasons, but bequests could decline by about $7 billion a year.
Each year many people cheat on their taxes.
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While people often want to cheat in certain cases if it would benefit them, they also want to think of themselves as honest. Here are three steps to stay honest while filing taxes.
It may opens doors but follows wherever you go.
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Congress changed the tax system to benefit companies with overseas operations but failed to help Americans actually living abroad, who still face punitive taxation.
Those demanding free higher education don’t realise this would be a regressive policy.
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The ethical and political reasons to avoid free higher education are unambiguous.
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower, right, looking at a map in 1955 of highways to be built with federal funds that retired Gen. Lucius Clay, left, had outlined.
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Despite all their anti-tax sentiments, Republicans from Hoover to Trump have embraced this levy on sales at the pump.
The fight for free university education in South Africa is entering its fourth year.
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In many respects, President Jacob Zuma’s free higher education proposal in South Africa is the worst kind of populism.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vows he will fight to protect his state from fallout from the new tax law.
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New York, California and other high-tax states are angling to use the charitable deduction and state payroll taxes as workarounds to shield both their residents and their revenue.
There are signs that non-rich Americans are growing less tolerant of tax cuts that mainly boost the wealthy’s bottom line.
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Historically, wishful thinking has blunted pushback.
Changes to the tax code may strike a blow to the charitable world.
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Giving could decline by $21 billion or more per year.
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If Americans become less healthy and have less access to health care, then everyone loses.
Protesters shout their disapproval of the Republican tax bill on Nov. 28, 2017.
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If Republicans don’t cut taxes on the wealthy when they have control of both houses of Congress and the presidency, what do they live for?
Graduate students and others rally against the proposed GOP tax reform bill.
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Universities play a vital role in promoting economic growth, something the writers of the Republican tax plan have apparently forgotten.
Protesters voice their disapproval of the Republican tax bill on Capitol Hill.
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Far from dispelling the notion among Americans that the system is ‘rigged’ against them, Republican tax plans are more likely to make matters worse.