The Roosevelt Institute hosts Tax Policy as Competition Policy: Reimagining How the US Tax Code Can Foster a More Equitable and Participatory Economy today at 12:00 PM EST (RSVP):
Excessive market power by dominant corporations is widely decried across the political divide. Federal and state antitrust agencies have begun to reclaim their rightful roles in checking the power of a few firms to control so much of the economy. Historically, tax policy complemented these antitrust enforcers by leveling the economic playing field. Yet today, taxation remains overlooked both as a driver of current levels of market concentration and as a tool to remedy the problem.
Roosevelt’s Taxing Monopolies series explores how a rewriting of the tax code can work alongside other antimonopoly tools to curb the excessive economic and political power of large corporations and their owners.
Join us for a virtual roundtable discussion bringing together a multidisciplinary circle of authors to present their latest research on how the US tax code affects market concentration and how to reform the tax code in a way that levels the economic playing field.
- Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan; Google Scholar)
- Kimberly Clausing (UCLA; Google Scholar)
- Brian Hager (City University of London; Google Scholar)
- Niko Lusiani (Roosevelt Institute) (moderator)
- Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA)
