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Taxing Stock Buybacks: A Chat with Daniel Hemel

Tax Chats - December 07, 2022 20:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff chat with Daniel Hemel, Law Professor at New York University about the recently enacted excise tax on share repurchases or buybacks. Daniel has thought and written about buybacks, for example, here. We discuss buybacks, dividends, and why both progressive...

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How do Capital Gains Taxes Affect Stock Prices? A Chat with Doug Shackelford.

Tax Chats - December 02, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss the effect of capital gains taxes on  stock prices with Douglas A. Shackelford, former Dean of UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School.  If the capital gains tax rate increases, should stock prices go up, down, or stay the same? Its much more complicat...

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Are Craisins Candy? Must have tax information before Thanksgiving

Tax Chats - November 21, 2022 16:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss what constitutes candy, for sales tax purposes, in North Carolina. The discussion ends with the verdict on craisins--are they candy? Scott is quizzed on other types of food and whether they are candy, and, scores a perfect 0/5.

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How will corporations respond to the tax on book income? A chat with Todd Castagno

Tax Chats - November 18, 2022 15:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Todd Castagno, an equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley, responds to a list of possible ways corporations might  react  to the tax on book income recently passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.  

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Thinking in a Tank about Taxes: Chatting about the Tax Foundation with Daniel Bunn

Tax Chats - November 09, 2022 19:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff talk about Tax Foundation with CEO and President Daniel Bunn. We talk about its missions, where it gets funding, and other tax-related issues. We discuss the pro-growth agenda of the Tax Foundation and note that there could be other legitimate objective fu...

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Anniversary Edition! Rebranding, and chatting about tax headlines

Tax Chats - November 04, 2022 17:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Tax Chats is officially one year old! In honor of this anniversery, Scott and Jeff talk through a potential rebranding of Tax Chats with a different name, then go on to discuss two tax headlines. First, they discuss windfall profits taxes on oil companies, then talk abou...

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Taxing the Things You Buy. A conversation with Whitney Afonso about Sales Taxes.

Tax Chats - October 28, 2022 15:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. In this episode Scott and Jeff discuss Sales Taxes with Whitney Afonso. We discuss sales tax basics, including the difference between who remits the tax and who bears the burden of the tax. We discuss the purposes of sales taxes. We discuss the regressivity of sales taxe...

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Taxing Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Senator Phil Berger, President Pro Tempore of the NC State Senate

Tax Chats - October 19, 2022 18:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. In this episode we talk about the tax consequences of student loan forgiveness. Generally, debt forgiveness is treated as income, and is therefore taxable. If the Biden Administration's current plan to forgive portions of student loans comes to fruition, the forgiven amo...

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Going Retro With Tax Headlines

Tax Chats - October 12, 2022 21:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss recent headlines from the New York Times: Opinion | There Is a Tax That Could Help With Inflation - The New York Times (nytimes.com) The Purpose of Extra-Large Marshmallows? A U.K. Court Weighs In. - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Lawsuit Seek...

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The Chats that Might Have Been.

Tax Chats - October 05, 2022 18:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss several people Jeff has invited to be on the show, but who have (as of yet!) been unable to make a Tax Chats appearance. Scott guesses why Jeff invited each person to be on Tax Chats.  The "John Edwards Tax Shelter", gas taxes and electric vehicles...

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Breaking Down Pillar I of the OECD's Inclusive Framework with Heydon Wardell Burrus.

Tax Chats - September 30, 2022 18:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss Pillar 1 of the OECD's Inclusive Framework with Heydon Wardell Burrus of the Centre for Business Taxation at Oxford University.

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Taxes in Sitcoms. A Conversation with Larry Zelenak.

Tax Chats - September 23, 2022 19:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff chat with Larry Zelenak, Professor at the Duke Law School about taxes in sitcoms. Larry has documented the extensive list of episodes that use the federal income tax as a major component of the plot. His work documenting these facts can be found in these t...

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Taxing Tobacco: A Conversation with Mike Lovenheim

Tax Chats - September 14, 2022 22:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Scott and Jeff discuss the some of the fascinating details related to the taxation of tobacco. We often think of the tax system as a tool to raise revenue. But the tax system is also used to encourage or discourage behavior. Taxing tobacco is one example...

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Does (did?!?) the Queen of England pay Taxes?

Tax Chats - September 09, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Jeff quizzes Scott about the tax status of the Royal Family in England. Long live the Queen.

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Does (did?!?) the Queen of England pay Income Taxes?

Tax Chats - September 09, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Jeff quizzes Scott about the tax status of the Royal Family in England. Long live the Queen.

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Un-Adjusting the Tax Code by Taxing Adjusted Financial Accounting Income in the Inflation Reduction Act

Tax Chats - September 07, 2022 19:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Despite our best efforts to inform the world about the perils of taxing financial statement income, the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax based on financial accounting income passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Jeff and Scott discuss the adjustments to financi...

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Tax Inspectors Without Borders. A Conversation with Rusudan Kemularia.

Tax Chats - August 31, 2022 16:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss a program called Tax Inspectors Without Borders with Rusudan Kemularia, Head of Tax Inspectors Without Borders. The program is part of the OECD and is connected with the OECD's BEPS as part of an effort to help provide developing countries with the...

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Tax Tidbits from a recent Trip (which could be true!)

Tax Chats - August 24, 2022 16:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Jeff and Scott discuss some interesting tax-related observations Jeff made while visiting Oxford University and Mannheim University in England and Germany.

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Does the IRS really have guns? Debunking some recent fear mongering

Tax Chats - August 17, 2022 16:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss the $80 billion in additional funding that has been allocated to the IRS as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA. They also discuss the fact that the IRS owns and uses a variety of guns, ammunition, etc. They break down some of the fear-mong...

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Does the IRS really have guns? Debunking some recent fear mongering

Tax Chats - August 17, 2022 16:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Scott and Jeff discuss the $80 billion in additional funding that has been allocated to the IRS as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA. They also discuss the fact that the IRS owns and uses a variety of guns, ammunition, etc. They break down some of the fear-mongering headlines that have...

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Guns and Money at the IRS

Tax Chats - August 17, 2022 16:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Scott and Jeff discuss the $80 billion in additional funding that has been allocated to the IRS as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA. They also discuss the fact that the IRS owns and uses a variety of guns, ammunition, etc. They break down some of the fear-mongering headlines that have...

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The Book Minimum Tax -- A Compilation of Thoughts

Tax Chats - July 28, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. In this special episode, we compile several recordings that we have made over the past year related to the proposed alternative minimum tax on financial accounting earnings. The recordings are very much related to two op-ed articles Scott published in the Wall Street Jou...

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Taxing Carried Interest with Vic Fleischer

Tax Chats - July 27, 2022 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss "carried interest" with Vic Fleischer, Professor of Law at UC Irvine. Carried interest is a special type of income that is taxed at favored capital gains tax rates, and is often associated with high earning individuals who manage private equity par...

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Taxed by the Taliban with Ashley Jackson

Tax Chats - July 20, 2022 20:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff learn from Ashley Jackson how the Taliban create a tax. We discuss how the tax system evolved initially to generate revenue to fund the Taliban objectives, until it became a symbol of its legitimacy. We talk about how the tax system evolved from a system o...

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How An Academic Changed Corporate Tax Reporting. A Conversation with Dean Lilian Mills on the Creation of Schedule M3.

Tax Chats - July 13, 2022 16:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss the creation of schedule M3 with Lillian Mills, Dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Lil was instrumental in the creation of schedule M-3, which is form filed with the IRS that reconciles taxable income to fi...

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Anti Progressive Taxation

Tax Chats - June 30, 2022 00:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss some of the prominent arguments against progressive taxation.

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Taxing Churches with Lloyd Mayer

Tax Chats - June 22, 2022 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss the tax status of churches in the U.S. with Lloyd Mayer, Professor of Law at Notre Dame University.  We discuss the basics of tax law as it pertains to Churches. We also discuss special tax benefits that apply to ministers and other church employee...

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Why Administrative Law is Way More Important than You Thought! A conversation with Andy Grewal.

Tax Chats - June 15, 2022 16:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff ask Andy Grewal to describe administrative law, and why it is so important for taxes. We discuss how significant portions of tax laws are left to interpretation by the IRS or Treasury, and how these interpretations can have a material effect on the experie...

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How Much Income do Firms Shift to Tax Havens? A Conversation w/Jennifer Blouin.

Tax Chats - June 09, 2022 22:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss income shifting by multinational corporations with Jennifer Blouin. We talk about Jennifer's research that suggests some estimates of the amount of tax revenue the U.S. loses to income shifting are as much as ten times too large. These estimates ar...

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Professor Arthur Laffer on His Curve

Tax Chats - June 01, 2022 20:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Scott and Jeff discuss the effects the tax rate has on how much taxes are raised with Professor Arthur Laffer,  for whom the Laffer Curve is named. The Laffer Curve shows the likely relationship between tax rates and tax revenue. We hear the famous story of drawing the c...

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