Tax Notes Talk
With Tax Notes Talk, you’ll never miss the latest in tax news and analysis. Tune in to hear experts from around the world weigh in on the issues shaping the world of tax.
Episodes
Tax Notes reporters Paul Jones and Emily Hollingsworth discuss how bias in artificial intelligence can affect automated systems that select taxpayers for audits and what their investigation of California's and New York’s audit selection processes revealed.
For more, read Jones and Hollingsworth's investigation for free: "Unwatched: How State Audit Selection Systems Bypass Oversight."
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Three policy experts discuss the uncertain future of the OECD's global tax framework amid stalled progress and waning consensus, during a live recording from the American Bar Association Section of Taxation May meeting.
For more, read the following articles in Tax Notes:
Professor Sakinah Tillman of the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law discusses how the complexities of state tax debt collections disadvantage low-income taxpayers.
For more, read Tillman's article, "Impact of Vague State Tax Collection Alternatives on Low-Income Taxpayers."
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Professor Lauren Shores Pelikan of the University of Missouri School of Law discusses her proposal to create a tax benefit for individual childcare service providers to ease costs for working parents.
For more on Shores Pelikan's proposal, read "Toddlers, Investors, and Tax Policy."
For more on the LendingTree study, read "It Costs an Additional $303,418 to Raise a Child Over 18 Years, Up 1.9%."
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Former IRS Criminal Investigation division Chief Guy Ficco examines the agency's future, including immigration enforcement and the use of artificial intelligence, as his decades-long tenure ends.
For more on the IRS Criminal Investigation division, read the following in Tax Notes:
Benjamin Angel, director of direct taxation at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union, discusses the EU’s biggest tax challenges right now, including windfall taxes and the side-by-side package.
For more, read the following in Tax Notes:
Jennifer Bernardini of PwC discusses the recently released guidance for the material assistance and prohibited foreign entity rules affecting some of the clean energy credits in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
For more, read the following in Tax Notes:
Tax Notes senior reporter Cady Stanton investigated a provision of the low-income housing tax credit and talked to housing advocates and tenants about how a 1990s tax policy has affected affordable housing.
Stanton interviewed the following people for this episode:
- Teresa Myers, a former tenant of Rosewood Estates in Springfield, Missouri
- Jennifer Schwartz, director of tax and housing advocacy at the National Council of State ...
Erika Isabella Scuderi, visiting assistant professor of tax law at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law, discusses her proposal for establishing taxing rights in outer space.
For more, read Scuderi's article, "On Sovereignty, Outer Space, and Taxation."
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Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jeanne Rauch-Zender, Paige Jones
Producer: Jordan Parrish
Audio Editor: Laura Ko...
Tax Notes contributing editor Robert Goulder discusses the Supreme Court's ruling invalidating the tariffs set in place by President Trump and what to expect for refunds.
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For related tax news, read the following in Tax Notes:
- New Trump Tariffs Hit With Multistate Legal Challenge
- ANALYSIS: The Real Liberation Day: IEEPA Tariffs Go Down in Flames
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Tax Notes Talk presents History Is Taxing, our new podcast exploring the tax origins of today’s biggest topics, connecting the present to the past with tax experts Robert Goulder and Joseph J. Thorndike of Tax Notes.
In this episode, Goulder and Thorndike explore how America’s first tariffs shaped the nation’s fiscal policy and set the stage for today’s federal income tax.
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U.S. Tax Court Chief Judge Patrick Urda discusses the effects of the IRS’s staff changes and generative AI on the court and its continued evaluation of online access to documents.
Listen to our episode with Judge Kerrigan: Updates From the Tax Court: Post-COVID Plans and New Funding
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Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jeanne Rauch-Zender, Paige Jones
Producer and Editor: Jordan Parrish
Tax Notes chief correspondent Stephanie Soong discusses the OECD’s recent pillar 2 side-by-side package deal and how countries are adapting to the new landscape.
For related tax news, read the following in Tax Notes:
- U.S. Focusing on OECD Guidance for Pillar 2 Side-by-Side Package
- Hungary Expands Global Minimum Tax Registration Form
- U.S. Treasury Officials Declare Death of OECD Pillar 1
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Rozeta Atlas of HubSync discusses the IRS’s plan to overhaul its legacy IT systems and what a modernized agency may mean for practitioners.
For related tax news, read the following in Tax Notes:
- Palantir Contracts Under Scrutiny Amid IRS Tax Data Controversy
- IRS Adopts Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy
- IRS No-Paper Initiative Jammed by Staffing Issues, Watchdog Says
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Professors Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz discuss their recent paper, “Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative AI,” which outlines their proposal for taxing generative AI companies.
For more, read Bearer-Friend and Polcz's article.
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Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jeanne Rauch-Zender, Paige Jones
Producers: Jordan Parrish, Peyton Rhodes
Audio Engineers: Jordan Parris...
Professor Andrea Campbell, author of Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes, discusses why Americans' beliefs about taxes often don’t align with the specific tax policies they support.
For more on Taxation and Resentment, you can read Joseph Thorndike's book review here: "ANALYSIS: Why Do Americans Ignore Their Self-Interest When It Comes to Taxes?"
Damien Martin and Tony Nitti of EY discuss the second three of their top six tax cases of 2025, focusing on what qualifies as a deduction in Savage v. Commissioner, Kelly v. Commissioner, and Weston v. Commissioner.
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Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jeanne Rauch-Zender, Paige Jones
Producers: Jordan Parrish, Peyton Rhodes
Audio Engineers: Jordan Parrish, Peyton Rhodes
Damien Martin and Tony Nitti of EY analyze the first three of their top six tax cases from 2025, focusing on what constitutes income in CF Headquarters Corp. v. Commissioner, Franklin v. Commissioner, and Feige v. Commissioner.
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Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jeanne Rauch-Zender, Paige Jones
Producers: Jordan Parrish, Peyton Rhodes
Audio Engineers: Jordan Parrish, Peyton Rhodes
Philip Hwang, national chair of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel, discusses the issues the IRS and return preparers could face this filing season following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
For related tax news, read the following in Tax Notes:
Jaye Calhoun of Kean Miller discusses key tax issues that states will likely address in 2026, including One Big Beautiful Bill Act provisions and the adoption of artificial intelligence tools.
For related tax news, read the following in Tax Notes:
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