As many Americans have struggled to make ends meet during the pandemic, the wealth of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and other billionaires has gone up by $1.3 trillion. And there is an entire professional sector—including tax attorneys, estate planners, accountants, and wealth managers—dedicated to help wealthy individuals and corporations protect, preserve, accumulate wealth […]
June D Talks Taxes
June Dalton, of Ladies Must Swing and also H&R Block, brings to the airwaves annual tax code updates she believes are relevant to WORT listeners. She also takes questions.
Walmart Sues City of Sheboygan over “Excessive” Property T...
Last week, Walmart continued a pattern by suing the City of Sheboygan over property taxes. The company says its Sheboygan outlet has been over-taxed by the city, as the debate over “dark stores” in Wisconsin continues. In an official complaint, Walmart lawyers argue that their property taxes for 2017 are “excessive,” and they want the […]
National War Tax Resistance
President Trump’s proposed 2017 budget includes over $60 billion in new defense spending, paid for by gutting a myriad of other federal programs, including food stamps, science and cultural programming. If you don’t share the President’s spending priorities, you can grouse about it to your representative in Congress, you can emigrate to Canada, or you […]
State and Local Taxes: Fair Tax Systems that Fund Our Communities
Let’s talk about taxes. How can we have a fair tax system? How is our current tax system working against this? Today’s guest host Carl Davis, of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, to discuss this and ITEP. Carl Davis is an Analyst at ITEP, and author of Judging Tax Expenditures (2009), The ITEP Guide […]
