{"id":5993,"date":"2024-08-23T16:26:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/?p=5993"},"modified":"2024-08-23T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:26:40","slug":"taxes-and-tax-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/2024\/08\/23\/taxes-and-tax-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes and Tax Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment5994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment5994\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eci\/files\/2024\/03\/kelly-sikkema-M98NRBuzbpc-unsplash-636x447.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"351\" class=\"wp-image-5994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2024\/03\/kelly-sikkema-M98NRBuzbpc-unsplash-636x447.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2024\/03\/kelly-sikkema-M98NRBuzbpc-unsplash-1024x720.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2024\/03\/kelly-sikkema-M98NRBuzbpc-unsplash-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2024\/03\/kelly-sikkema-M98NRBuzbpc-unsplash-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2024\/03\/kelly-sikkema-M98NRBuzbpc-unsplash-2048x1440.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment5994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kelly Sikkema via Unsplash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Brian Roach<\/p>\n<p>Tax policy is one of the most debated, and often misunderstood, issues in politics and economics. This module<span>\u00a0<\/span>provides students with critical tools to understand how taxes work and how they are essential for the government\u2019s functioning. It introduces the US tax system, including the historical development of tax policies, and then presents an overview of tax systems in other countries along with an international comparison of tax data. An analysis on current tax debates is presented, focusing on issues such as the distribution of tax burden among different groups and the relationship between taxes and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2023\/04\/Taxes-and-Tax-Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Teaching Module<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brian Roach Tax policy is one of the most debated, and often misunderstood, issues in politics and economics. This module\u00a0provides students with critical tools to understand how taxes work and how they are essential for the government\u2019s functioning. It introduces the US tax system, including the historical development of tax policies, and then presents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22900,"featured_media":5994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[168,107,158,162,167,329,171],"tags":[330,239,345,407,406,409,410,408,451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6248,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions\/6248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}