
Tax Chats
Taxes touch every aspect of society, including who rules, where factories are built, what people drink, what car they buy, when they have children, and when they die. Scott Dyreng (Duke) and Jeff Hoopes (UNC), two accounting professors, chat about taxes, including current events, with the energy of an over-caffeinated chihuahua. Listening is guaranteed to be far more entertaining than actually paying your taxes.
Podcasting since 2021 • 176 episodes
Tax Chats
Latest Episodes
Medicaid! A Chat with Marc Goldwein
Jeff and Scott chat with Marc Goldwein, who is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. They chat about Medicaid, a huge piece in the federal government's budget, and an essential ...
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Season 1
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Episode 162
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29:48

A Roman Tax Evasion Trial: A Chat with Anna Dolganov
Jeff and Scott chat with Anna Dolganov, an academy scientist at the Austrian Archeological Institute, about her work on a recently re-discovered papyrus. The papyrus contained notes from a tax evasion trial in ancient Rome, which Dr. Dolganov t...
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Season 1
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Episode 161
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30:39

A Chat with Hank Aaron about Social Security
Jeff and Scott chat with Henry (Hank) Aaron, a Senor Fellow Emeritus at the Brookings Institution, about Social Security. They discuss how it started, how we fund it, who gets it, how it has been reformed, and how it could be fixed.
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Season 1
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Episode 160
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38:04

No Tax On Tips? Jeff and Scott Receive a Huge Tax Break (a short emergency episode)
Jeff and Scott very briefly talk about the bombshell news that podcasters are included on the Treasury's list of jobs eligible for "no tax on tips." https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Tipped-Occupations-Detailed-8-27-2025.pd...
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Season 1
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Episode 159
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9:43

Inflation and Tax Policy: A Chat with Kyle Pomerleau
Jeff and Scott talk with Kyle Pomerleau about how inflation interacts with tax policy and the tax law. Kyle points out that inflation interacts in two major ways: When we tax gains that happen over long periods of time, and we have to think abo...
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Season 1
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Episode 158
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26:27
