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 • 157 episodes
Tax Chats
Latest Episodes
Re-release: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Tax Perjury Trial: A conversation with Edgar Dyer
This episode originally aired on January 15, 2022. We are releasing it for Martin Luther King day, January 20, 2025. If you already heard it and don't wish to hear it again, skip it!Martin Luther King Jr. is the only person to have eve...
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Season 1
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Episode 144
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33:38
Low Property taxes in California: Chatting about Prop 13 with Dan Walters
Jeff and Scott chat with Dan Walter's, an Opinion Columnist for CalMatters. They chat about Prop 13, a law that dramatically limits property tax increases in California, and was passed in 1978. Dan has been writing about California since 1975, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 143
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34:15
Democrats Lowering the Income Tax in Hawaii! A Chat with Seth Colby
Jeff and Scott chat with Seth Colby, a Tax Research and Planning Officer for the State of Hawaii. They discussed a recent policy change in Hawaii, where Hawaii dramatically reduced income tax rates, while increasing sales taxes, in an effort to...
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Episode 143
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30:34
The Regulation of Paid Tax Preparers: A Conversation with John Treu
Jeff and Scott chat with West Virginia University accounting professor, and lawyer, John Treu, about the regulation of paid tax preparers, including John's empirical evidence that they improve return quality and the Loving case.
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Season 1
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Episode 142
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36:42
Re-release: Are Craisins Candy? Must have tax information before Thanksgiving
Scott and Jeff discuss what constitutes candy, for sales tax purposes, in North Carolina. The discussion ends with the verdict on craisins--are they candy? Scott is quizzed on other types of food and whether they are candy, and, scores a perfec...
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Season 1
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Episode 141
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24:11