Director of Accounting and Associate Professor, Michael Roberts, is no stranger to accounting for taxes. In fact, he’s quite the expert. That’s why WalletHub – a “social network for your wallet” – asked him for his opinion for the article, 2015’s Best States to Be Rich or Poor from a Tax Perspective. The article “identified the best states where people in different income brackets spend the most and least on sales and excise taxes, property taxes and income taxes.”
Additionally, the article featured a number of experts in the field – including Roberts – and asked them the following questions:
- What is the most efficient way to distribute tax burden across income levels?
- Which state and local tax instruments are the most and least fair?
- What makes some state and local tax systems better able to weather economic downturns?
- How do American notions of economic mobility inform tax preferences and tax policy?
To read Michael Roberts’ answers, follow THIS LINK.
Michael Roberts is the Associate Professor of Accounting, Co-President of The Tax Fairness Research Institute and Director of Accounting Program, University of Colorado Denver. He teaches Income Tax Accounting, Tax Planning for Managers and Professional Judgement in Accounting.
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