Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System (Update)

Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner, and where I live, it is springtime. That's when a lot of people start thinking about two of our national pastimes, baseball and paying taxes. This year, both of these pastimes have some rule changes. Major League Baseball has finally allowed the use of computers to keep human umpires from making bad calls on balls and strikes. And in tax matters, we have a variety of changes brought about by President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was signed last year.

Today on Free Economics Radio, we don't have a baseball episode for you, but we do have a tax episode. This is an update of an episode we made last year with Jessica Riedel, a tax policy expert, who had published her list of the top 10 tax myths. In the episode you're about to hear, we have updated facts and figures as needed, and at the end you will hear from Riedel about what's changed since then. As always, thanks for listening.

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