Andrew Wilford

Bowing to pressure from banks and taxpayers concerned about a proposal to require financial institutions to report to the IRS gross inflows and outflows for just about every account...

Last month, Rite Aid announced that it would be transitioning its corporate workforce to a “remote-first” model of work. The pharmacy giant is hardly the first...

President Biden and former President Trump did not agree on much during the campaign. Unfortunately, one of the few areas where Biden has chosen to continue Trump administration...

As Democrats seek to downplay the impact of legislation that will likely end up adding as much as $5-6 trillion in new spending, they have resorted to a new rhetorical tactic:...

As Democrats push for a 79th increase in the debt ceiling, it’s tempting for Republicans to simply say that enough is enough. Particularly at a time when Democrats are pushing...

Few corporate activities receive more ire from the left than share repurchase programs, commonly known as stock buybacks. Senators Ron Wyden and Sherrod Brown recently attempted to...

At a time when the economy is still recovering from a COVID-induced recession, one would think that the last thing policymakers would want to do is discourage investment. Yet...

Most IRS guidance documents make for poor pleasure reading. Then again, most IRS guidance doesn’t effectively impose a retroactive tax on small business owners merely...

When Congress reformed the tax code by passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) back in 2017, the motivation was to make American businesses more competitive across the world. This...

As Democrats scramble to find ways to pay for a gargantuan $3.5 trillion budget, they have begun throwing outlandish proposals at the wall in the hope that something...

Ever since ProPublica, a progressive news organization, somehow got access to a collection of confidential taxpayer information, it has blasted out...

Over the course of the pandemic, federal overspending has exploded even by Congress’s lofty standards. While trillion-dollar deficits were a cause for concern before 2020,...

One of President Biden’s most impactful, but least discussed, tax proposals is the repeal of the so-called “step-up in basis” upon inheritance of a decedent’s...

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) recently rolled out a plan to overhaul the pass-through deduction instituted in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). While the deduction, known...

In the tax policy world, an outcome that isn’t just about the worst possible option is a pleasant surprise. So while the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...

Progressive news organization ProPublica has made a great deal of hay recently by pretending that public, widely-known, and intentional elements of the tax code are secret loopholes...

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court denied New Hampshire’s motion to sue Massachusetts for the Bay State’s taxation of New Hamsphirites working from home...

As negotiations continue on a bipartisan infrastructure agreement, certain members of Congress from high-tax states are desperate to tack on a repeal of the $10,000 cap on the state...

One would think that an attempt by foreign countries to aggressively target American-based businesses for special taxes would sound the alarm for any president seeking to help our...

Earlier this week, ProPublica released a report based on the private tax data of wealthy Americans it had acquired. Just how it managed to acquire this...

Closing the “tax gap,” or revenue owed to the federal government that goes uncollected, has long been a favorite deus ex machina for lawmakers who want more...

In just about four months, President Biden has proposed or signed into law around $6.5 trillion in new spending. With your taxpayer dollars suddenly up for grabs, a lot of...

What do disputes about the value of the late Michael Jackson’s image and the divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates have in common? No, it’s not a joke, or at least not a very...

Certain high-tax states in this country just can’t seem to help themselves. Even as their tax bases flee their states, these states continue to stick to the same tax-and-spend...

Just over three months into his presidency, Joe Biden has been nothing if not active. Fresh off proposing two bills that could end up costing taxpayers $5 trillion over the next...

The Biden Administration has cast its recent push for a global minimum corporate tax rate as a principled stand, an exercise in using multilateral agreements to coordinate a...

In recent years, it has become fashionable to profess outrage at reports of businesses with book profits that nevertheless owe zero taxes. Popularized by left-wing advocacy...

Corporations get attacked for not paying taxes in a certain year, but they’re just spreading out their losses.

Believe it or not, “Infrastructure Week” appears to finally be here. Unfortunately, it carries with it a raft of tax hikes that put the lie to the campaign-trail...

Last week, because of its dreadful failure to keep up with tax filing season and pressure fromadvocacy organizations and members of Congress, the Internal Revenue Service...

The case against protecting remote workers from pandemic-related tax changes was never a strong one. With the passage of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act, it’s gotten even...

In a relief bill (conservatively) estimated to cost taxpayers $1.9 trillion, what’s a hundred billion or so between friends? That’s presumably the reasoning behind...

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) recently revived her campaign proposal for a wealth tax on taxpayers with a net worth exceeding $50 million. Unfortunately, the plan retains the same...

Ask a thousand random people what the 2017 tax reform law did, and probably none of them would tell you about full expensing of business investments — instead, they’d...

More than six months after Governor Larry Hogan vetoed the Maryland’s proposed first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax, the legislature has moved forward with overriding...

We live in a time where “bold reform” is a phrase usually reserved for policy proposals that are only “bold” because everyone else knows they won’t...

As the GameStop rollercoaster ride trundles ever onwards, most are focused on the impact on retail investors and hedge funds involved. But this episode also illustrates what a mess a...

If, as the saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, then mark New York’s state government down as...

The story of Wednesday, Jan. 20, was the inauguration of President Biden. But all the internet seemed to care about was the attire and demeanor of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who...

Newly-inaugurated President Biden is likely to take office and push for a flurry of new legislation. Yet while all eyes will be on Biden’s proposals for COVID-19 relief,...

Back in April, as Congress was seeking to finalize an expansion of the Paycheck Protection Program, state governors and their Democratic allies in Congress delayed the rollout of...

Understandably lost in the wake of Wednesday’s shocking events was the fact that, with two election wins in Georgia, Democrats took control of the Senate to go with control...