The tax code was formally titled the Internal Revenue Code in 1939, and Congress made revisions in 1954 and 1986. Prior to the 1939 codification, separate changes to the tax law were known as Revenue ...

The definition of income—what it is and how it’s taxed—is a core issue of a Supreme Court case that could have far-reaching effects for taxpayers. Moore v. United States, argued before the court in ...

People across the country already struggle to exercise economic and political control over their own lives, and there may be imminent changes in economic and tax policy that could make things worse.1 ...

Just last week, the Biden administration revealed a Build Back Better framework that proposes a new surtax on high-income taxpayers and other tax code reforms to pay for $550 billion of spending ...

Michael Linden examines how our tax code has grown less effective at dampening income inequality, and how various proposals to reform the code would affect inequality. Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) tax ...

House conservatives are breathing new life into an old proposal to do away with income taxes, payroll taxes, estate taxes and even the IRS itself in favor of a supersized sales tax that would account ...

Important regulations expire at the end of next year, thwarting tax planning and creating a monumental fiscal challenge for Congress. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on ...

As they rush to file their taxes by April 18, Americans are rightfully frustrated with the complexity of the 74,608-page-long federal tax code. The federal tax code is 187 times longer than it was a ...