When taxpayers discover that their transactions have unwanted tax consequences, they routinely rely on the unwind doctrine found in Internal Revenue Service Revenue Rulings 80-58. Nowadays, “unwinding” has become a “common if not ubiquitous feature of tax practice.” This article finds...

This paper: (1) describes New Zealand's 2019 "Wellbeing Budget" policy and process reforms, including the "Living Standards Framework" policy analysis tool; (2) assesses the potential for New Zealand's recent budget process changes to lead to transformative policy change; and (3) assesses the...

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump proposed three tax benefits for child care: a credit for low-income families, an above-the-line deduction, and tax-subsidized savings accounts. While these proposals laudably bring attention to the heavy burden that child care costs place on many...

This article tries to find a new way through old arguments about whether or not New Zealand should have a realization-based capital gains tax. Instead of revisiting the first-principles analysis of the costs and benefits of a capital gains tax, it starts by observing that many countries have...

The Taxpayer Bill of Rights (known as “TABOR”) was a 1992 amendment to the Constitution of the US state of Colorado. Adopted by referendum, TABOR restricts growth in Colorado state government spending and revenues to the sum of population growth plus inflation. TABOR's key benefit was said...