Charitable Giving is Good. Be Smart About how to Encourage It. Alex Brill and Grant M. Seiter | AEIdeas In 2020, Americans’ individual charitable giving reached $324 billion, a record high and a 2.2 percent increase from 2019. While the pandemic imposed great costs on...
Tackle the Tax Gap Alex Brill | AEIdeas The Senate Finance Committee held an important subcommittee hearing this week, “Closing the Tax Gap: Lost Revenue from Noncompliance and the Role of Offshore Tax Evasion.” The “tax gap,” which is the difference between the...
Rising Tax Burdens for Those Earning the Most Alex Brill and Scott Ganz | AEIdeas Is the tax code sufficiently progressive? The answer depends not only on the values of the person answering the question, but it also is a surprisingly tricky empirical exercise. What...
