Bill Gale is the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy and a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on tax policy, fiscal policy, pensions, and saving behavior. He is

Diane Ring is from the Future (Diane Ring)

Dec 15th, 2020 20m 30s

She writes about information exchange, tax leaks, international tax relations, sharing economy and human equity transactions, and ethics in international tax. Ring was a consultant for the United Nation’s 2014 project on tax base protection for

From "I Paid My Income Tax Today" to "The Government Already Knows" (Joe Bankman)

Dec 8th, 2020 18m 19s

Stanford Law School’s Joe Bankman writes on tax policy topics such as progressivity, consumption tax, and the role of tax in the structure of Silicon Valley start-ups. He has gained wide attention for his work on how government might control th

Investing in Children's Potential with a Tax Credit (Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach)

Dec 1st, 2020 22m 24s

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach is the director of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and the Margaret Walker Alexander Professor at the university. From 2015-2017, she was the director of the Hamilton Project, an economic

If You Can't Measure It, How Can You Improve It? (Marc Fleurbaey)

Nov 24th, 2020 23m 22s

Marc Fleurbaey is the Research Director of the National Center for Scientific Research at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare (2008), a co-author of Beyond GDP (with Didier Blanchet, 2013), A

At the Crossroads of Health and Tax Law (Katherine Pratt)

Nov 17th, 2020 33m

Professor Katie Pratt is Loyola Law School’s Sayre Macneil Fellow. She is an expert in income taxation and tax policy, and the co-author of a popular textbook on income tax. She writes on the intersection of tax law and population health, tax e

Why Should Only the Tax Code Be Fair? (Zach Liscow)

Nov 10th, 2020 15m 38s

Zachary Liscow is an associate professor of law at Yale Law School. His main research interest is understanding the appropriate policy levers to address income inequality and, in particular, the role that tax policy versus other legal rules sho

The Thoroughbred of Patent Boxes (Stacie Laplante)

Nov 3rd, 2020 15m 13s

Stacie Laplante is an associate professor of accounting and information systems and the James L. Henderson Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business. Laplante has nine years of experience in public accounting i

Is There Value in Taxing Where Value Is Created? (Allison Christians)

Oct 14th, 2020 21m 40s

Allison Christians is associate dean for research and the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation at the McGill University Faculty of Law. Her research and teaching focus on national and international tax law and policy issues, with emp

A Fiscal Citizenship Elevator Pitch (Larry Zelenak)

Oct 6th, 2020 13m 34s

Zelenak is the Pamela B. Gann Professor of Law at Duke Law and the author of Figuring Out the Tax: Congress, Treasury, and the Design of the Early Modern Income Tax (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Learning to Love Form 1040: Two Cheers f

Does the IRS Monitor Your Credit Card Transactions? (Wei Cui)

Sep 29th, 2020 18m 57s

Professor Wei Cui teaches at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. He also practiced tax law for over 10 years in both New York and Beijing, served as senior tax counsel for the China Investment Corporation and has served as a consultant to the Un

Thank God for Tax Day (Sara Greene)

Sep 22nd, 2020 16m 55s

Sara Greene is a Professor of Law at Duke. She received her JD from Yale Law School and her PhD in social policy and sociology from Harvard University in 2014. Greene also practiced housing law and tax credit matters at the law firm Klein Horni

Redistributing Opportunity (John Friedman)

Sep 15th, 2020 26m 44s

John Friedman is a Professor of Economics and International and Political Affairs at Brown. Collaborating with scholars such as Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez, Friedman works to provide very granular information on very big issues. He is a found

Can you hear me now?: Why it’s so hard to deliver help to those who need it (Tatiana Homonoff)

Apr 14th, 2020 20m 3s

Tatiana Homonoff is an assistant professor of economics and public policy at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. Homonoff received her PhD in economics from Princeton University. Her research focuses on identifying areas in which b

How Old Is Tax Evasion? (Steve Bank)

Mar 31st, 2020 24m 56s

Steve Bank is the Paul Hastings Professor of Business Law at the UCLA School of Law. In this episode, he provides historical context for the rise of the key tax concepts of realization and recognition. He explains how the rise of Delaware as th

Do Your Taxes Like Nobody's Watching—Because Honestly, They Probably Aren't (Jeff Hoopes)

Mar 17th, 2020 23m 6s

Jeff Hoopes is an associate professor and the Harold Q. Langenderfer Scholar of Accounting at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. Hoopes focuses on understanding how taxpayers respond to tax laws and changes in tax e

Tax Policy and the 14th Century Fresco (Miranda Stewart)

Mar 3rd, 2020 21m 43s

Miranda Stewart is a professor and the director of Tax Studies and the Tax Group at Melbourne Law School and also a fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy. Her schola

Is More Open More Fair? (Kimberly Clausing)

Feb 18th, 2020 30m 47s

If it is true that taxes are a reflection of our values, what signals are we sending? In this episode, we unpack the factors affecting job loss and creation, challenges faced by American workers versus other countries, and the vulnerabilities c

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