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Re-release: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Tax Perjury Trial: A conversation with Edgar Dyer Jan 15, 2024

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This episode originally aired on January 15, 2022.
Martin Luther King Jr. is the only person to have ever been tried for perjury with regards to state income taxes in Alabama. Jeff and Scott interview Edgar Dyer about the tax perjury trial of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1960. Eddie wrote an article entitled "A Triumph of Justice in Alabama: The 1960 Perjury Trial of Martin Luther King, Jr."
Fred Grey, Martin Luther King's attorney, said of the trial, "No one would have predicted that an all-white jury in Montgomery, Alabama, the Cradle of the Confederacy, in May 1960, in the middle of all the sit-ins and all of the racial tension that was going on, would exonerate Martin Luther King, Jr. But it really happened." Coretta Scott King said of the trial, "A southern jury of twelve white men had acquitted Martin. It was a triumph of justice, a miracle that restored your faith in human good." Dr. King said it was a "turning point" in his life. Tune in to hear about this triumphal tax trial, which was a turning point for Martin Luther King.
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Predicting Tax-Related Court Cases with Artificial Intelligence: A Chat with BlueJ CEO Benjamin Alarie Jan 05, 2024

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For the second time, Jeff and Scott chat with Benjamin Alarie, a law professor at the University of Toronto, and, the founder and CEO of BlueJ. They talk about one of BlueJ's products which predicts tax court case outcomes, and also discuss the future of AI and taxes generally.
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Tax Tune - A Way to Pay Taxes (re-release) Dec 21, 2023

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A Way to Pay Taxes (to the tune of Away in the Manger)
Re-release (originally released Christmas, 2021)
Lyrics by Jeff Hoopes, Sung by Stacey Hoopes
Oh Joseph and Mary
They were there for a task
They came to the city
To pay their tax
But as they remitted
The tax on their worth
Oh Mary, a virgin
She had to give birth

They went to the city
By Caesar’s decree
As taxes touched Joseph
They affect you and me
When we give birth
and when we die
How much we work
And what car we buy

For every decision
We weigh how we act
By counting the cost
And we do it post-tax
The pros and the cons
In dollars and cents
We consider the taxes
Before we commence

Taxes at the Hoopes House Dec 20, 2023

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Jeff and Scott talk about two taxes levied at the Hoopes household, the "floor tax", and the "toilet tax." These two taxes demonstrate how the tax system can be used as either a carrot or a stick, and the benefit of each approach, and the importance of administrative costs (which made the toilet tax impractical). We also discus how, and whether, taxes can be used to solve social problems. Scott vows to do better in taxing the subjects of his kingdom.

Marketing and Soda Taxes: A chat with Kristopher Keller Dec 14, 2023

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Jeff and Scott talk with UNC Marketing professor Kristopher Keller about his work on the effect of marketing on soda taxes (joint work with Jonne Guyt and Rajdeep Grewal). After passing a soda tax, a tax on sugared beverages meant to discourage their consumption, stores can change their marketing of soda. Kristopher, with coauthors, show that stores actually decrease the amount of marketing they do, which contributes to some of the decline in soda consumption which has been documented to accompany soda taxes. In sum, Kristopher shows that marketing can affect the measured elasticity of soda consumption with respect to the soda tax rate.
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Simplfying Tax Filing Across Countries: A Chat with Benjamin Angel Dec 04, 2023

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Jeff and Scott chat with Benjamin Angel, the Director for Direct Taxation, Tax Coordination, Economic Analysis and Evaluation at the European Commission. The EC has recently proposed rules that would enable smaller business that have operations across EU countries to have a simplified tax filing process, reducing compliance costs and making the tax filing process easier. These rules will allow companies to calculate their tax base according to a common set of rules (not a different base for every country), and, provides an allocation mechanism to allocate profits to the countries in which the small EU multinational operates.
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SALT Cap Workaround: A Chat with TaxOps' Stacey Roberts and Meredith Smith Nov 28, 2023

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Jeff and Scott chat with two state and local tax experts, Stacey Roberts and Meredith Smith, about the state and local tax deduction cap put in by Congress in 2017, and ways states are allowing their residents to get around it.
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Empirically Addressing Repurchase Allegations: A Chat with Nick Guest Nov 02, 2023

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In this episode, Jeff and Scott chat with Nick Guest, Assistant Professor of Accounting at Cornell University's SC Johnson College of Business about a recent study he conducted related to stock repurchases, available published here or in working paper version here.

Generative AI and Taxes: A Chat with BlueJ CEO Benjamin Alarie Oct 31, 2023

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Jeff and Scott chat with Benjamin Alarie, a law professor at the University of Toronto, and, the founder and CEO of BlueJ. They talk about one of BlueJ's products, Ask BlueJ, which is a generative AI system that allows users to ask it technical tax questions, and, get answers. They discuss how responses are quickly improving, how this AI is different from ChatGPT, and, the future of generative AI for tax research.
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A proposal to (partially) avoid the coming fiscal cliff: Chatting with Natasha Sarin. Oct 18, 2023

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Jeff and Scott discussed a new tax proposal with Natasha Sarin, an economist and lawyer at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management. Natasha, in collaboration with Kim Clausing, developed a plan aimed at increasing tax revenue. This plan also anticipaties several tax provisions expiring in 2025.

The proposal, "The Coming Fiscal Cliff: A Blueprint for Tax Reform in 2025," includes the following proposals, among others:

Raising the corporate tax rate.
Overhauling the current international tax system.
Introducing a carbon tax.
Securing permanent funding for the IRS.
Implementing a financial transactions tax.
Expanding the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Overall, these measures aim to generate an additional 3.5 trillion in revenue, over the current baseline of projected revenue

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