Emmanuel Saez

If you could find an interesting read on tax policies and their impact on society, then this book would be it. You might also find it frustrating as you read about all the ways the wealthy and well connected can beat the system. The most important aspect of the book though is how the tax avoidance impacts society. The author does a good job showing the connections. The author provides plenty of remedies that on the surface makes sense - ya that will stop them! But he misses an important fact - the tax cheats have all our politicians in their pockets and all the makes great sense laws he proposes would never see the light of day because the corruptness of today's politicians.… (mere)

Saez and Zucman have written a book about tax policy and managed to make it both understandable and even entertaining. Their main concern is to show how our current US tax policies have made the rich richer. To do this, they provide a history of how the US tax system evolved to what it is today. They also provide some very concrete and influential proposals about how to make the tax system more fair. The footnotes are excellent and they provide a web site with their data and a tax calculator to allow readers to experiment with the parameters of their proposal.… (mere)