Lecture Notes
Lecture 1: Intro, Current Tax System, and Review of Welfare Economics
Lecture 2: Tax Incidence
Lecture 3: Economic Efficiency
Lecture 4: Optimal Taxation
Lecture 5: Tax Policy Institutions, Process, and Public Choice
Lecture 6: Empirical Public Finance: Individual Taxation
Lecture 7: Empirical Public Finance: Individual Taxation
Lecture 8: Empirical Public Finance: Business and Corporate Income Taxation
Lecture 9: Empirical Public Finance: Business and Corporate Income Taxation
Lecture 10: Tax Reform: Income vs. Consumption Taxes
Lecture 11: Tax Reform: Income vs. Consumption Taxes, Pre-Pay vs Post-Pay examples from class
Lecture 12: Consumption Taxation: Theory and Systems
Course Links
Federal Tax Policy: It’s Not All About Comprehensive Reform
In rare bipartisan action, Congress approves $1.1 trillion budget
Thousands of employees affected by Harvard tax mistake
The President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2014
Who Doesn't Pay Federal Taxes?
Governor: Colorado Pot Market Exceeds Tax Hopes
Analysis of Chairman Camp's Proposal For Tax Reform, Part 1: Individual Tax Reform
Analysis Of Chairman Camp's Proposal For Tax Reform, Part II: The Business Tax Proposals
The President’s Proposal to Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit
Mortgage Tax Breaks Trickle Up, New Study Shows
Yes, Bitcoin is legit, says IRS. But tax reporting could be boggling
Hearing to probe Caterpillar's tax strategy
'The Numbers Are Getting Better, The People Are Getting Worse'
Caterpillar hearing morphs into tax-code debate
Small business owners lose more than a week every year to tax preparation, paperwork
Canada Freezes Online Tax Filing Due to Heartbleed Bug
A tax reformer’s uphill push
TurboTax Maker Funnels Millions To Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns
Planet Money Episode 531: The Tough, The Sweet And The Nosy
The "Amazon Tax", NBER Working Paper by Baugh, Ben-David, and Park
NY Times on the above paper: Amazon.com is learning the hard way that people care more about price than brand loyalty
The Conservative Case For Thomas Piketty
Notes/Papers
Fullerton and Metcalf: Tax Incidence
Income Inequality Research by Emmanuel Saez
Marginal Effective Tax Rates by Don Fullerton
Depreciation and METR Examples in Excel
Problem Sets/Writing Assignments
Problem Set 1: Tax Incidence
Problem Set 1 Solutions
Problem Set 2: Economic Efficiency and Optimal Taxation
Problem Set 2 Solutions
Problem Set 3: Investment, Depreciation, and METRs
Problem Set 3 Solutions
Writing Assignment 1: Individual Taxation
Writing Assignment 2: Business Taxation
Writing Assignment 3: Tax Reform