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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
reactions to policies that would seem to benefit them, like raising taxes on those who earn and own a lot more. Why would the poor oppose taxes on the wealthy? Because many believe that they, or at least... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
families save to withstand economic shocks. Lawmakers should consider an option by which they could help quell the recent chaos, raise as much as $250 billion a year, strengthen families, and enhance civic engagement. It’s simple: Just keep our money. Instead of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
Scott Cook (MBA 1976) wants to change lives through initiatives he created as cofounder of Intuit. These include the Intuit Tax Freedom Project, which provides free online tax preparation services for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
a variety of measures, including tolls, to shelter local enterprises from competition. They are motivated by the need to protect the local tax base. Without it, local officials stand to lose a major source of revenue needed to pay their... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
the effect we have on the people who pay the tax, as well as the tax they pay. Both are important. What are the dimensions of this turnaround challenge? Every system, top to bottom, has to be reengineered. Our most fundamental problem is... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
With U.S. economic recovery limping along and unemployment hovering above 9 percent, the Washington debate over regulatory and tax policies needed to spur economic revival has shifted into high gear. Outside the Washington Beltway, among... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
bring me another set of old tax returns so I can put it in my credit model?,” they could say, “I have this whole understanding of your business and have preapproved you for a loan. But is $20,000 the right amount of money, or should you... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
Detroit from imminent bankruptcy will be futile. see article HBS professor Peter Tufano makes the case for allowing Americans to automatically buy U.S. savings bonds with their tax refunds, building family and national savings in a time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
is sending the money abroad. It’s the illegal outflows that disappear from the books that go into tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions and then into American and European coffers. That’s a huge amount of money draining out of developing... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
from wind, and realistic predictions indicate the average will reach 20 percent by 2020. “The progress we’ve seen in Texas itself is a combination of good resources, good infrastructure, and friendly permitting policies,” he stresses. “And it’s supported by national... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
I can tell, fall comfortably in between: modest to significant successes; honest; doing our bit for the economy and our communities; and paying our taxes (grumbling if we're Republicans and amazed if we're Democrats that the top federal... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
power have been virtually stagnant for decades. Two incomes are required where one used to suffice. Jobs and entire industries have gone overseas. The trade deficit has grown enormously. Tax codes have become skewed to the very wealthy.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Kelleher and Waterloo’s longtime owner, John T. Kunz, are appearing together to ask if the business qualifies for certain tax breaks and to float the idea of closing a section of North Lamar Boulevard for one morning. Forced to find a new... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
a tax of 4 percent to annual income above $1 million in order to raise approximately $1.9 billion in new revenue for public education funding. The foundation’s efforts do not stop with providing grant funding to support organizations and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
being active participants. All forms of illicit financial flows are assisted by a global structure that comprises 72 tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions, millions of disguised corporations, anonymous trust accounts, fake charitable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Why Do We Tax? With the next President set to take office, it's time to ask how the income tax system could be improved. Assistant Professor Matthew Weinzierl suggests how. US Competitiveness at Risk America's declining global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
wide-reaching networking system. The club also continues to generate volunteers for the Tax Assistance Program (TAP), a nonprofit venture founded by Robert M. Burke (MBA '99). Through TAP, volunteers help residents in underprivileged... View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
education and business competitiveness." Balancing the Books Four ways that business is partnering with PK-12 Enabling innovation. Companies in San Antonio, Texas, worked to gain voter approval for a tax increase to fund quality... View Details