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Season 1 Episode 15
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Scott discusses how much tax millionaires pay. Millionaires and Billionaires are often used in the same way to describe someone who i…
4 years, 6 months ago
Tax Short - Is a 4% Wealth Tax the Same as a 120% Income Tax?
Season 1 Episode 16
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Jeff discusses wealth and income tax rates. We are used to thinking of tax rates on income. How do we think about tax rates on wealth…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ask the Option Tax-Ologist
Season 1 Episode 14
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We discuss tax issues related to stock options. The discussion is related to Elon Musk's recent infamous twitter poll, in which he as…
4 years, 6 months ago
Tax Short - The Pros and Cons of Taxing GAAP (the Amazon Tax)
Season 1 Episode 12
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Scott explains why companies have two separate accounting systems, one for reporting income to shareholders (GAAP), and one for repor…
4 years, 6 months ago
Tax Short - Why Don't Billionaires Pay Tax?
Season 1 Episode 13
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Jeff describes why many billionaires don't pay any tax (or at least pay rates of tax that are far lower than millionaires). He discus…
4 years, 6 months ago
The BBB (Build Back Better) Potpouri
Season 1 Episode 11
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We discuss some of the not-so-talked-about provisions in the Build Back Better tax plan, including (but not limited to) tax credits f…
4 years, 6 months ago
Tax Short - How Salesforce.com Paid No Tax on $2.6 Billion in Profits
Season 1 Episode 9
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Scott describes how Salesforce.com used tax deductions from share-based compensation to reduce its U.S. tax bill to $0 despite report…
4 years, 7 months ago
Tax Short - How Much Tax Should a Socially Responsible Firm Pay?
Season 1 Episode 10
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Jeff briefly discusses how much tax a socially responsible firm should pay. He explains that a dollar of tax paid might translate to …
4 years, 7 months ago
The Tax on GAAP is Back (or at least proposed)
Season 1 Episode 7
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We discuss the recently proposed 15% corporate minimum tax to be applied to financial accounting earnings. The idea was proposed by S…
4 years, 7 months ago
A Billionaires Tax? Is it a wealth tax? Could it happen?
Season 1 Episode 6
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We discuss the recent proposal for a billionaire's tax. We describe the tax, discuss how it could force the very rich to pay more in …
4 years, 7 months ago