
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 • 169 episodes
Tax Chats
Latest Episodes
Does Subsidizing E-Bikes Reduce Carbon Emissions? A Chat With Anders Anderson
In this episode, Jeff and Scott talk with Anders Anderson, a finance professor at the Stockholm School of Economics about, his research evaluating Sweden’s nationwide e-bike subsidy. The program successfully doubled e-bike sales, but had ...
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Season 1
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Episode 156
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27:01

AI and Tax Research: A (third!) Chat with BlueJ Tax CEO Ben Alarie
Jeff and Scott chat for a third time with BlueJ CEO Ben Alarie about new innovations in tax research using artificial intelligence, especially how these tools are being used by tax practitioners, the efficiency gains to using them, and how Blue...
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35:57

Tax Morality with Ruth Braunstein
In this episode, Scott and Jeff chat with Ruth Braunstein about her recent book "My Tax Dollars...
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Season 1
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Episode 154
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37:37

A Proposal for a Standard Business Deduction: A Chat with Kathleen Thomas
Jeff and Scott chat with Kathleen Thomas, a UNC tax law professor, about a recent proposal to allow businesses to have a standard deduction, rather than track expenses. Kathleen explains how this proposal would simplify compliance with and admi...
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Season 1
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Episode 153
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36:34

One Big Beautiful Bill, One Short Sagacious Summary (insofar as it is accurate)
The House Ways and Means Committee has pass The One Big Beautiful Bill the TOBBB). Knowing this was coming up, Jeff invited Scott to go on a Tax Chats road trip, but, got rejected--Scott was too busy. So, Jeff watched the process from a d...
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Season 1
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Episode 152
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35:21
