Good news: The income tax will disappear in April. Bad news: The income tax is only being abolished in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda....

Marco Rubio accused Ted Cruz of proposing a value-added tax and, while he has a different take, economist Dan Mitchell is concerned about a VAT, as we...

Just as federal tax policy incentivizes companies to move to other countries with more favorable business environments, the same behavior occurs in st...

CATO economist Dan Mitchell examines the various tax reform plans proposed by the 2016 Republican presidential candidates, and even takes a look at ot...

Politicians have worked with interest groups and lobbyists to create myriad deductions, credits, exclusions, preferences, exemptions, and other loopho...

If politicians manage to impose a value-added tax on the U.S., statists will have won a giant victory and it will be much harder to restrain big gover...

Honest statists understand and acknowledge that you can’t have bigger government unless you target middle-income taxpayers with a value-added tax, o...

Tax Rates vs. Tax Credits: The goal is to provide tax relief to families, but to keep it reasonable so that growth and other objectives can be realize...

Dan Mitchell, CATO economist and PPD contributor, analyzes the reform blueprint from Sen. Ted Cruz, adding to the proposals put forth by other candida...

The various 2016 presidential tax plans need to be augmented by long-overdue restrictions on the IRS, which has become and abusive and rogue bureaucra...