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.
Tax Chats
Latest Episodes
Max Ghenis: Can AI Correctly Calculate a Tax Liability?
Jeff and Scott chat with Max Ghenis, co-founder and CEO of PolicyEngine and founder and CEO of the Axiom Foundation, about using technology to improve tax policy analysis. We discuss PolicyEngine, an open-source tool that allows anyone to simul...
Zorka Milin and Daniel Bunn: A discussion about expanded tax disclosure
Jeff and Scott talk with Zorka Milin, Co-Director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, and Daniel Bunn, President and CEO of the Tax Foundation, about the push for greater corporate tax transparency. We d...
Annie Lowrey and taxes on time
Jeff and Scott talk with Annie Lowrey, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the new book The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time—and How to Fix It. Annie explains how government bureaucracy imposes a hidden tax on Americans throu...
The Everywhere Millionaire: A Chat with Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick about their new book
Jeff and Scott talk with economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick about their new book, The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There, in which they use vast amounts of tax return data to gather evidence ...
Brandon Arnold on Data Centers
Scott and Jeff speak with Brandon Arnold , the Executive Vice President of the National Taxpayer's Union, about data centers. Do they drive up real estate prices? Do they use too much water? Are they just a substitute for people's fears about A...