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Item Episode 6: The Limited Prospects for International Tax Cooperation(2017-04-25) Kudrle, Robert; Conners, KateThe recent pace of international agreement aimed to reduce tax evasion and avoidance was completely unpredicted prior to the financial crisis. The two targets are often considered to be merely different dimensions of the same problem, but they are largely different problems. In this podcast, Robert Kudrle, Orville and Jane Freeman Chair in International Trade and Investment Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, explores the two problems and the prospects for success in solving them.Item Race and the Submerged State Visibility, Tax Policy, and Racial Politics in the United States(Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2014-05-01) Onyiah, Constance IfyOver the last several decades, policymakers have used tax policy to expand government social programs. In typical social spending areas such as housing, healthcare, income security, commerce, and education; the federal government has increasingly used tax credits, exemptions, deductions, and exclusions as a means of delivering social benefits. These tax expenditures are a more indirect means of provision than more traditional direct government outlays for agency implemented programs. Scholars have identified these indirect programs as making up a “submerged state” that disproportionately serves high income populations. This paper examines whether there are racial disproportions between indirect and direct program types. By focusing on programs that appear to have similar goals in the areas of housing, healthcare, and income security and using a chi-squared test for significance, I find concentrations of non-whites in direct programs and whites in indirect programs. This finding has important public opinion, civic engagement, and equity implications and indicates an area of necessary further study.Item Tax Policy at a Crossroads(2008-09-04) Jacobs, Lawrence R.