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The FBI is seemingly in every other headline in this year’s presidential campaign. The IRS has been in none.

Americans are learning far more about Donald Trump’s sex life and Hillary Clinton’s emails than about their respective policy agendas.

A recent review by The New York Times of some of Donald Trump's tax returns shows that he was potentially able to avoid paying federal income taxes for nearly two decades. 

One reform would make very low-income workers eligible and increase assistance for workers with earnings too low to receive their full CTC.  The second would double the credit for children under age 5. 

Is the US tax code both too small and too progressive? Yes, say Alan Viard and Sita Nataraj Slavov of the American Enterprise Institute.

In the long term, Trump’s tax plan would slow the economy by increasing deficits and driving up interest rates while Clinton’s would reduce the deficit, which would lower interest rates and boost growth. 

The fiscal policy debate in the 2016 presidential election has come down to a familiar question: Do deficits matter?

You might have tuned in to the Oct. 13 Tax Policy Center discussion featuring representatives of each campaign. If you had, you would have seen an absolutely stunning contrast in both style and substance that in many ways mirrored their candidates.

Yesterday’s presentation by Donald Trump's economic adviser, Peter Navarro, at the Tax Policy Center’s discussion of the presidential candidate tax plans reminds one analyst of a passage in George Orwell’s dystopic novel 1984. 

Donald Trump may have claimed huge losses starting in the early 1990s. But, like other rich investors, he wouldn’t have paid much tax anyway. Despite paying some tax, Warren Buffett's release of his 2015 tax return affirms that reality.

Clinton has proposed a significant tax increase on high-income households and businesses. Trump's plan, while less ambitious than the version he released in 2015, would still largely benefit high-income households and result in a substantial boost in the federal debt. 

Trump said he’d repeal what he called the carried interest loophole, but he’d give private equity firms, hedge funds, and other companies an even better deal by reducing their rates on other taxes. 

One thing on which Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agree. 

If so, he’d be at least the third well-known politician to rely on a gimmick to avoid payroll taxes on consulting income.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will require every province to adopt a carbon tax or develop a carbon trading system by 2018. The idea could prove an interesting model for the United States. 

Property taxes are an important source of funds for public safety, schools, and other community services. But assessing them can be tricky. 

In the US, it's illegal for government employees or contractors to publicly disclose any information about a taxpayer without the taxpayer’s consent. In other countries, it's more accessible. 

Donald Trump has suggested that Mexico’s value added tax, or VAT, gives its producers an advantage over American companies. It doesn't.

Immigrants, both skilled and unskilled, benefit long-run economic growth in the United States in several key ways.

Individual tax subsidies totaled 1.168 trillion in 2015, and the biggest share went to the highest-income households.