
Tax Chats
Taxes touch every aspect of society, including who rules, where factories are built, what people drink, what car they buy, when they have children, and when they die. Scott Dyreng (Duke) and Jeff Hoopes (UNC), two accounting professors, chat about taxes, including current events, with the energy of an over-caffeinated chihuahua. Listening is guaranteed to be far more entertaining than actually paying your taxes.
Podcasting since 2021 • 174 episodes
Tax Chats
Latest Episodes
A Chat with Hank Aaron about Social Security
Jeff and Scott chat with Henry (Hank) Aaron, a Senor Fellow Emeritus at the Brookings Institution, about Social Security. They discuss how it started, how we fund it, who gets it, how it has been reformed, and how it could be fixed.
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Season 1
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Episode 160
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38:04

No Tax On Tips? Jeff and Scott Receive a Huge Tax Break (a short emergency episode)
Jeff and Scott very briefly talk about the bombshell news that podcasters are included on the Treasury's list of jobs eligible for "no tax on tips." https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Tipped-Occupations-Detailed-8-27-2025.pd...
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Season 1
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Episode 159
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9:43

Inflation and Tax Policy: A Chat with Kyle Pomerleau
Jeff and Scott talk with Kyle Pomerleau about how inflation interacts with tax policy and the tax law. Kyle points out that inflation interacts in two major ways: When we tax gains that happen over long periods of time, and we have to think abo...
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Season 1
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Episode 158
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26:27

Brad Setser on Income Shifting and Trade in Pharmaceuticals
Jeff and Scott chat with Brad Setser, a Senior Fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations, about income shifting among pharma firms, as well as the impact that shifting has on tariffs and international trade.
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Season 1
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Episode 158
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37:26

A Brief Tour of the Tax Museum's Library
Jeff and Scott take a look at 4 books that Jeff has recently acquired for the Tax Museum library, which numbers at least 677 volumes. Almost all of these books were a an academic bequest from one of Jeff's mentees, Joel Slemrod. Je...
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Season 1
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Episode 157
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33:41
