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Thursday, June 11, 2026

2026 NYU Tax Policy Colloquium

Here is the schedule of public sessions at the fall 2026 NYU Tax Policy Colloquium: 2026 NYU TAX POLICY COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER DATES All session...

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Short comment paper published, responding to Gabriel Zucman's global billionaire minimum tax proposal

Intertax has just published and posted a new article of mine responding to Gabriel Zucman's global billionaire minimum tax proposal. Ava...

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Paper influenced by Alan Auerbach

The following is the text of some brief remarks that I offered at a conference in Berkeley last Friday honoring Alan Auerbach upon his retir...

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Sometimes, it's right on front of your eyes ...

The authors of this piece have failed to apply Occam's Razor in interpreting the central empirical finding. https://www.aei.org/resear...

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Forthcoming publications

I have three new articles coming out shortly. The first, in Tax Notes International next Monday (but already available behind a paywall onli...

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

New articles, current and near-future

I had a sabbatical this past spring, and thus haven't been in a classroom since the end of fall 2024. One way I've used the time is ...

Monday, July 14, 2025

Another five-star Amazon review of my memoir

This one goes as follows: "Pure gold. Easily the most honest memoir I've ever read: bracingly real, sharply funny, and deeply human...

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About Me

Daniel Shaviro: New York, New York, United States; I am the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School. My research mainly emphasizes tax policy, government transfers, budgetary measures, social insurance, and entitlements reform. My most recent books are (1) Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009) and (2) Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy (2006). My other books include Do Deficits Matter? (1997), When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000), Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), Who Should Pay for Medicare? (2004), Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy (2006), Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009), and Fixing the U.S. International Tax Rules (forthcoming). I am also the author of a novel, Getting It. I am married with two children (boys aged 24 and 21) as well as three cats. For my wife Pat's quilting blog, see Patwig’s Blog.

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