Rosanne Altshuler (Rutgers University, Department of Economics; Co-director, Tax Policy Center) notes a curious aspect of President Obama's naming of the new tax reform task force chaired by Paul Volcker: the web site of President Bush's 2005 tax reform panel (on which Professor Altshuler served as Chief Economist) — http://www.taxreformpanel.gov — has disappeared:
President Obama would likely make different choices, but our simplified income tax plan would be a great starting point. In future blogs, I plan to highlight some of the ideas put forward by our panel. I hope Volcker & friends will keep our report in mind. To start, they could turn the website, http://www.taxreformpanel.gov, back on.
The website is a great teaching and research resource for law, economics, and accounting professors. It is now archived at http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/taxreformpanel.
