Despite evidence demonstrating that tax enforcement is a highly cost-effective public investment, Congress’s recent bipartisan budget deal includes a $10 billion cut to the IRS’s tax enforcement budget. Learn more in this Equitable Growth article featuring research from Gabriel Zucman.
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman in the Financial Times
How will raising interest rates affect inequality and economic mobility for low-income families? In a new Financial Times analysis, Gillian Tett highlights recent work from Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman in analyzing how Fed policy may undo some of the gains from the COVID-19 economic recovery. Read the article here.
Why the Inflation Reduction Act is key to strong, broad-based U.S. economic growth
The newly-passed Inflation Reduction Act has the power to combat growing income and wealth and inequality in the United States, explains a new Equitable Growth article. Author David Mitchell underscores how key climate provisions of the act will be paid for by increased taxes on the wealthy, mentioning tax-evasion research from Gabriel Zucman. Read the article here.
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman: Congress and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman urge Congress to legislate more forceful measures during the COVID pandemic to avoid another Great Depression. These include increased job protections, robust business support, universal healthcare, and excess profit taxes.
Read the full article on: New York Times.
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman: Proposal for a Massive Government Intervention
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have been strongly advocating for a more robust federal response to the economic dislocations of COVID. In this piece at the Guardian, they press for the federal government to guarantee wages and lost revenues to business facing shutdown.
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The French Economist Who Helped Invent Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax
The New Yorker writes a detailed profile on affiliate Gabriel Zucman, highlighting the story behind his influential wealth tax proposal and his beginnings as an economist, including his background in wealth inequality. Read the full article here.
How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice by Saez and Zucman
For the first time in a hundred years, the working class paid higher tax rates than billionaires. How can we achieve economic justice? Find out in Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman’s new opinion piece for The New York Times.
Is the U.S. Due for Radically Raising Taxes for the Rich? - The Atlantic
That’s what has usually happened whenever a large proportion of Americans have been upset with the distribution of their country’s wealth. See full article in the Atlantic here.