Tax Analysts contains news, analysis, and commentary on tax reform. Attempts at tax reform were under way even before the income tax or the tax code came on the American scene. Criticism, corruption, mismanagement, and misuse of power have all fueled the engine of tax reform, says Tax Analysts’ Joseph J. Thorndike, who analyzed complaints about the IRS between the 1870s and the 1990s in “The Hater’s Guide to IRS History.”

Congress, the president, and a bevy of policy wonks all have thoughts on how the federal government should run its financial shop. Tax Analysts covers all aspects of tax reform, be it Thorndike’s historical take on the topic or in Viewpoint articles, such one by Pepperdine University School of Law’s Paul L. Caron ("Tax Reform in a Time of Crisis"), who summarized a symposium co-sponsored by Tax Analysts on the present-day prospects of tax reform. Tax Analysts’ Capitol Hill reporters cover Congress’s attempts to wrestle down the tax reform beast in news articles such as Stephen Cooper’s, “Tax Reform Must Include Middle-Income Relief, Democrats Say.” Others look to the administration’s budget proposals for signs of reform as Lindsey McPherson and Amy S. Elliott did in “Obama Budget Expands on Reform Framework but Lacks Key Details.” Tax Analysts makes room for many voices in the tax reform debate, including the Ogilvy Government Relations firm’s James C. Gould, who identified practical lessons for lawmakers from a quarter-century of tax reform failures and from the singular success in 1986 in a Tax Analysts special report, “Tax Reform, Congress, and Politics.”

Tax Analysts is dedicated to covering, commenting on, and analyzing tax reform efforts, while distilling all the political carrying on down to the facts.