Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Goulder covers developments in U.S. and international taxation. Kimberly Clausing: We need to distinguish between what's ...

© Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. ME: Professor, the current tax debate reminds me of your definition for a “fair” tax system--one that shifts the ...

In a speech on Wednesday, President Donald Trump laid out four principles for tax reform. Since there's no actual tax reform bill yet, we can't say how well it will serve those principles — but the ...

It's the job of an accountant to create accurate financial statements, which means that assets, liabilities, sales and expenses should be recorded in the period in which they were incurred. However, ...

It is hard to think of anything that some government, at some point, has not taxed. Playing cards, urine, fireplaces, slaves, religious minorities, and windows have all at some point attracted the ...

The biggest issue facing the Legislature this session will be dealing with the governor’s proposals regarding tax reform. Reducing the income tax with an eye to eliminating it altogether, expanding ...

Republican leaders of the House Judiciary Committee released a set of principles Wednesday for taxing Internet sales, offering the first tentative move toward compromising on legislation passed by the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economic policy for the 21st century. "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax the guy behind the tree" is one of those ...

A CORPORATION THAT IS SOLD OR RESTRUCTURED faces significant uncertainty about how the government will tax contingent liabilities such as environmental, tort and similar obligations. This is ...

Politicians talk about “tax fairness,” but never about tax morality. That’s because their notion of a fair tax is really an immoral tax, for it is based on theft (some people taking money from other ...