James R. Hines Jr. & Joel Slemrod of the University of Michigan’s Office of Tax Policy and Research have released a paper with 12 questions about the state of the federal tax steps and reforms that the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform could take in these areas. Here are the 12 questions:
- Is the current tax system broken?
- Making the cut
- What’s an X-tax?
- Soak the rich, or the middle class?
- Whose ox is gored?
- No more April 15 jokes?
- The long and winding road
- Two cheers from the business community
- Taxes and the deficit
- Sacred cows
- Taxes and growth
- The grass is always greener
