- 123World : Taxation Sites
Alphabetic listing of the official taxation sites of the various countries to get information on taxation issues.
- Alabama Tax Reform Issues
Alabama Arise website. A page of links to a few articles on tax burden distribution in Alabama.
- Build Your Own Tax Policy!
Just answer a few simple questions and let the computer tell you all about the tax policy that appears to fit you best. Completely free.
- Gasoline Excise Tax--Historical Revenues: Fact Sheet
A history of the national gasoline tax, including yearly revenues since it began. Note that the revenues are in "thousands of dollars", so are actually a thousand times higher than listed.
- Grandfather Tax Report
A graphical presentation showing the average worker needed to work 5 months to cover all taxes (federal plus state/local government), compared to working 1.4 months 70 years ago.
- Information and Misinformation about Federal Tax Burdens
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "The percentage of income that typical middle-class families pay in federal taxes is often overstated."
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Focus on land economics and taxation. Goals are to integrate the theory and practice of land use and taxation and to understand the forces that influence them. Has 3 program areas: Taxation of Land and Buildings, Land Markets, and Land as Common Property.
- Michael Gray, CPA's Bottom Line
Free monthly newsletter about the US tax code and tax law.
- National Issues: Tax Reform
A "non-partisan" site which analizes the many tax reform proposals, and, in overview, concludes that they are worse than the current system, and that people are actually willing to pay higher taxes if they get more benefits.
- New York Times- IRS Is Allowing More Delinquents to Avoid Tax Bills
The Internal Revenue Service for more than a year has let many tax delinquents go without paying tax bills that total billions of dollars.
- Progressive and Regressive taxes/taxation explained
Essay discussing the concepts of progressivity in taxation, the role of taxation in regulating the economy, and explaining why sales taxes are considered to be regressive.
- Q&A on U.S. Tax Topics
FAQs regarding the current U.S. and local tax systems, from Citizens for Tax Justice. Defends the death tax and advocates lifting the Social Security tax cap, so that all income was taxed instead of a limited amount.
- Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
Established at the University of California, Berkeley, to promote research in tax policy and public finance.
- Simplified Tax And Wage Reporting System
The Simplified Tax and Wage Reporting System (STAWRS) web site offers employers a guide to federal and state tax and wage reporting information.
- Tax and Accounting Sites Directory
A comprehensive index of tax and accounting resources on the Internet.
- Tax Foundation
One of the U.S.' original public policy research groups, monitoring fiscal issues at the federal, state and local levels since 1937. Web site includes data on taxes and spending at all levels of government, including "Tax Freedom Day," "Tax Bite in the Eight-Hour Day," federal taxes by state compared to federal spending, "The Price of Civilized Society," who pays federal income taxes, as well as information on capital gains taxes, corporate taxes, the median family's tax burden, and the latest tax bill.
- Tax Reform - Tax Foundation
Any of the major congressional tax reform proposals -- the Armey-Shelby flat tax, the Schaefer-Tauzin national sales tax, and the Nunn-Domenici USA Tax System -- would lower a typical middle-class family's tax burden, according to a Tax Foundation analysis.
- Tax Reform -- About.com
Information, arguments, and grass-roots efforts to improve the U.S. federal tax system, particularly through drastic overhaul.
- Tax'nYou
Articles on income tax law in India, and about the Union Budget.
- The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
A non-partisan, non-profit educational research foundation conducting, publishing and publicizing research on the promotion and perfection of economic liberty, political freedom, opportunity and democracy in the United States and around the world
- The Future of State Taxation
Book available from the Urban Institute.
- The Taxation Institute of Hong Kong
Incorporated in 1972, the Institute's prime objectives are to promote the study of taxation and the exchange of information and views on taxation.
- U.S. Tax Reform
includes summaries of major tax reform proposals
- Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in the 50 U.S. States
Study found that most states take a far greater share of income in taxes from middle- and low-income families than from the wealthy.
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