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When the FAIRtax is explained to many audiences, it is easy to see people thinking of the impact on their family if items were increased in price by 23%. Since most in the audience are on a budget, the prospect of suddenly paying that much more is very concerning… Read More.

There’s a new idea floating around the Senate: Taxing an individual’s wealth, not just their income. Our Chairman, a former tax attorney, discusses this new wealth tax in this week’s Chairman’s Report. Read on! Read More.

What happens when you step on a rattlesnake? A candidate who ran a false ad attacking FAIRtax just found out. Read More.

The 2017 tax plan limited to $10,000 the itemized deduction allowed for state and local real estate and personal property taxes and either income taxes or sales taxes (SALT) on itemized income tax returns. Because the SALT deduction is primarily used by citizens in Blue States, even though also by higher income earners with high property taxes in all states, it has been attacked as politically motivated. Read More.

What do the Yellow Vests protesting in France have in common with taxation in the United States? It might not be what you think… Read More.

Over the years, I have met and often been on panels with many economists—some Nobel Prize-winning economists. Almost all these men and women were personable and treated me with reasonable deference as they dismissed my arguments about the advantages of the FAIRtax over the present income/payroll tax system. Read More.

A lesson for the swamp, from Abraham Lincoln: You can’t fool all the people all the time. But they’re trying. Read on. Read More.

Many pundits and spokespeople for the Swamp (they are often the same) shrilly denounce the recent income tax plan because it “unfairly” limits the state and local tax deduction to $10,000. Discounting that most of these spokespeople and members of the Swamp live in states with high state and local taxes, the argument seems to be that all of the residents of the other states should “subsidize” the state tax burden paid by the people who elect to reside in states with high state and local taxes. Read More.

Understanding ‘swamp talk’ isn’t easy. Politicians often say one thing and do another, while families and small businesses pay the price… Read More.

THE IRS IS AUDITING A LOT FEWER AMERICANS–PERCENTAGE OF INDIVIDUAL TAX AUDITS FALLS TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 2002 Read More.

To a person who uses the logic of someone who works for a living and lives outside of the Swamp, any legitimate tax bill that seeks to reform the existing broken income/payroll tax system would eliminate tax extenders. Tax extenders are special tax benefits that have to be renewed, usually in one to three years, or they expire. The Swamp loves these tax extenders because then they can extort the beneficiaries for a continuing flow of funds in order that the Swamp can influence Congress to extend it over and over again. Read More.

One area of attack of the FAIRtax from Swamp supporters is regarding health care. The claims are the FAIRtax will add even more burdens on people who are sick. This is patently false. The following analysis was prepared by Karen Walby, Ph.D., Director of Research, Americans For Fair Taxation, and provides the truth. Read More.

All of us know that there are many reasons to pass the FAIRtax and we don’t need to list them here. However, in this the world’s greatest economy we have a growing crisis. According to a national survey conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder: Read More.

THE IRS IS AUDITING A LOT FEWER AMERICANS–PERCENTAGE OF INDIVIDUAL TAX AUDITS FALLS TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 2002 Read More.

When looking at the actions of politicians, Mark Twain said, “I’ve found that common sense ain’t so common.” Only inside the Washington D.C. Beltway will you find supposedly intelligent people that will look you in the eye and tell you that businesses actually pay taxes from some mysterious account that they have. These “brains” point to the billions of dollars that some of these corporations have. However, much of it has been kept outside of the U.S. because of U.S. tax policies and much of it is for re-investment in their business. Read More.