Business owner Pete Vegas explains how a single visit to Washington state ended up saddling him with an assessment for $180,000 in business and occupation taxes.

National Taxpayers Union Vice President Andrew Moylan discusses the trend of local governments investing millions (and in some cases hundreds of millions) of dollars in municipal broadband projects that compete with private ISPs. The amount of debt these projects are accumulating is documented in the recent study Municipal...

Tax Foundation economist Will McBride discusses the implications of Taxmageddon - the $500 billion tax increase that is coming at the end of 2012 - and what Congress and the White House can do to stop it.

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Prof. David Tuerck, executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute in Boston and chairman of the Suffolk University Department of Economics, discusses the tax climate in Massachusetts and the state's many tax expenditures.

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Tax Foundation economist Will McBride discusses his new report, "Tax Freedom Day Arrives on April 17, 2012."

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Tax attorney and SNR Denton partner John Harrington discusses the problem with enacting more and more temporary provisions in the federal tax code.

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Prof. John Garen of the University of Kentucky and the Bluegrass Institute discusses the new tax reform effort launched by  Gov. Steve Beshear.

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Tax Foundation president Scott Hodge discusses our new study on business tax costs in the 50 states, Location Matters: A Comparative Analysis of State Tax Costs on Business.

More on corporate income taxes here.

Our guest this week is James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. James discusses the tax climate in the Great Lakes State, and how Gov. Rick Snyder and the state legislature recently reformed the much-disliked Michigan Business Tax.

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Tax Foundation president Scott Hodge discusses the pros and cons of President Obama's recently-announced plan for corporate tax reform.

More on corporate income taxes here.