US taxes: Certain as death, complicated as hell

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In a Financial Times article on tax reform, Hamilton Project Policy Director Adam Looney discusses aspects of the system that could be corrected. Looney discusses the controversial aspects of value added taxes and notes that many areas of the tax code have “pernicious effects.” Read the full piece here.

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