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<br> Burman and Slemrod bring their wealth of experience and scholarship to the task of helping the American taxpayer and voter understand the language of taxation - to distinguish the marriage bonus from bonus depreciation and transfer pricing from transfer payments. The authors' comprehensive yet comprehensible tour of the US tax system will promote readers' understanding of the taxes we pay and the policy choices we confront. -- Alan J. Auerbach, Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, University of California, Berkeley<p><br> As America gears up to debate fundamental tax reform again, two of the giants of the field have laid out everything you need to know in order to understand what reform means and why it matters-how the tax system works, who pays and how inefficient it is. If every policy maker in America read this book, the tax code would probably look a lot different. -- Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors<p><br> This volume provides an excellent overview of tax policy. Using non-technical language, It lucidly discusses institutional, political, and economic issues associated with the tax system. All those who want to find their way through the thicket of tax reform will want to have a copy of this book on their shelves. -- Harvey S. Rosen, John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy, Princeton University<p><br> This volume makes complex issues of tax design and economic analysis not only accessible, but often entertaining. It explains with extraordinary clarity the current tax system, as well as leading reform proposals. It is must reading for anyone who hopes to understand and to participate in the approaching national debate on tax reform. -- James M. Poterba, Mitsui Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President, National Bureau of Economic Research<p><br>

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Leonard E. Burman is Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs at Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Joel Slemrod is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, at the University of Michigan.

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