New Ipsos Poll Shows Broad Support for Bold Charity Reform
Concerns about warehousing charity dollars and tax subsidies for wealthy donors and perpetual foundations transcend partisan divide.
Time To End the Capital Gains Rate Giveaway
Our tax loopholes let marginal and arbitrary differences in facts give rise to markedly different tax outcomes.
How to Hide Wealth
The United States didn’t become a tax haven overnight.
A Perfect Storm Has Elon Musk Paying $11 Billion in Tax
But our only quarter-trillionaire is still not paying anything close to his fair tax share.
How Do We Fix Abuses of Donor-Advised Funds?
Donor-advised funds are set up to provide more benefit to their wealthy donors than to public charities. We can fix that.
Subway’s Sandwich Mogul Meets — and Beats — the IRS
A new U.S. District Court ruling helps billionaires escape millions in gift taxes.
Why the Superrich Are Flocking to South Dakota
South Dakota has become a tax haven for the wealthy. Here’s how the trust industry gained a foothold.
IPS Tax Policy Expert Bob Lord Available for Interviews on Phil Knight, Billionaire Tax Avoidance, and How to Dodge over $3.6 Billion in Taxes
“Phil Knight’s estate plan demonstrates beyond doubt that loopholes in America’s estate and gift tax have rendered it useless.”
Phil Knight: A Case Study in Billionaire Tax Avoidance
How to dodge over $3.6 billion in taxes.
Phil Knight’s Billion-Dollar Philanthropy: Generosity or Self-Service?
New revelations about the Nike founder’s tax-dodging schemes raise questions about his charitable giving.
Phil Knight’s Big Tax Dodge: A Q&A With Tax Attorney Bob Lord
The veteran tax attorney unraveled Nike founder Phil Knight’s tax avoidance schemes for a recent Bloomberg investigation. He sits down with Chuck Collins to explain how this is possible under existing tax law — and what should change.
5 Charts on Taxing Wealth to Pay for the Build Back Better Agenda
Proposals in play to pay for the ambitious public investment plan could help reverse skyrocketing wealth inequality.
Forget the Huddled Masses. Bring Us Billionaires.
The land of the free and the home of the brave has become a tax haven for the vile and the vicious.
Why Billionaires Love to Park Their Dynastic Wealth in Places Like South Dakota
State-level loopholes have made it possible for some of the wealthiest families in the world to make sure most of their riches are never taxed.
Close the Carried Interest Loophole and End Private Equity Abuse
To help pay for vital public investments, Congress needs to end a tax loophole that has allowed greedy private equity execs to pay a lower tax rate than many middle-class Americans.