Jeff Hoopes (UNC, Kenan-Flagler Bus. Sch.), Becky Lester (Stanford, Grad. Sch. Bus.), Martin Jacob (IESE Bus. Sch.), and Scott Dyreng (Duke, Fuqua Sch. Bus.) have launched the Tax Policy Network, which is “a community of scholars translating rigorous tax research into clear, policy-relevant insights on the debates that matter most.”
Front-page topics at launch include hot-button items on the proposed California billionaires’ tax, CAMT, pass-through businesses, and inflation indexing for capital gains. The launch announcement, below the fold.
What we are trying to do
Tax policy affects workers and families, entrepreneurs and investors, nonprofits and corporations. Yet many of the most important insights about how tax policy interacts with accounting are too often missing from public discussion.
Our goal is to improve the quality of tax-policy decision-making by bringing a fresh, research-driven lens to policy-relevant debates, with analysis that is accessible to policymakers, journalists, and the broader public.
What you will find through the Network
• Analysis and commentary that connects academic research to real policy design and implementation questions
• A focus on the mechanics that are easy to miss but crucial in practice: the definition of the tax base, timing and recognition, links to financial statements, administrative feasibility, compliance costs, complexity, enforcement realities, disclosure and transparency, revenue stability, and system integrity
• More to come, including quick-turn commentary on developing policy stories, and an AI-generated daily podcast that summarizes daily tax news
