Podcast Episodes

Brad Setser on Pharma Shifting and Trade

Season 1 Episode 158

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Jeff and Scott chat with Brad Setser, a Senior Fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations, about income shifting among pharma firms, as well as the impact that shifting has on tariffs a…

Published on 10 hours ago

A Brief Tour of the Tax Museum's Library

Season 1 Episode 157

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Jeff and Scott take a look at 4 books that Jeff has recently acquired for the Tax Museum library, which numbers at least 677 volumes. Almost all of these books were a an academic beques…

Published on 4 days, 5 hours ago

Does Subsidizing E-Bikes Reduce Carbon Emissions? A Chat With Anders Anderson

Season 1 Episode 156

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 In this episode, Jeff and Scott talk with Anders Anderson, a finance professor at the Stockholm School of Economics about, his research evaluating Sweden’s nationwide e-bike subsidy. T…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

AI and Tax Research: A (third!) Chat with BlueJ Tax CEO Ben Alarie

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Jeff and Scott chat for a third time with BlueJ CEO Ben Alarie about new innovations in tax research using artificial intelligence, especially how these tools are being used by tax prac…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Tax Morality with Ruth Braunstein

Season 1 Episode 154

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In this episode, Scott and Jeff chat with Ruth Braunstein about her recent book "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" wherein we discuss complicated issues related to u…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

A Proposal for a Standard Business Deduction: A Chat with Kathleen Thomas

Season 1 Episode 153

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Jeff and Scott chat with Kathleen Thomas, a UNC tax law professor, about a recent proposal to allow businesses to have a standard deduction, rather than track expenses. Kathleen explain…

Published on 3 months ago

One Big Beautiful Bill, One Short Sagacious Summary (insofar as it is accurate)

Season 1 Episode 152

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The House Ways and Means Committee has pass The One Big Beautiful Bill the TOBBB). Knowing this was coming up, Jeff invited Scott to go on a Tax Chats road trip, but, got rejected--Scot…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

The Tax Family Tree: A Genealogical Discussion with Kyle Pomerleau

Season 1 Episode 151

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Jeff and Scott talk about the relationship taxes have with each other.  How are value added taxes related to sales taxes or the border adjustment tax, and how are all related to income …

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Tariffs in 2018: Ryan Monarch on what we know about the first round of Trump Tariffs

Season 1 Episode 150

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Jeff and Scott talk to Ryan Monarch, economics professor at Syracuse University, about what we know about the tariffs imposed by the first Donald Trump administration in 2018.  

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Which is the worst Tax Expenditure?: A Chat with Adam Michel

Season 1 Episode 149

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Jeff and Scott chat with Adam Michel of the Cato Institute about tax expenditures. Adam currently has on his X account the Tax Expenditure Madness brackets (also on his substack: https:…

Published on 5 months ago