Tax Chats is a weekly podcast hosted by accounting professors Scott Dyreng (Duke) and Jeff Hoopes (UNC). Each episode features conversations with researchers, historians, policymakers, and practitioners about how taxes shape the world around us — from current legislative debates to the history of the tax system and everything in between.
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.
Jeff and Scott talk with economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick about their new book, The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There, in which they use vast amounts of tax return data to gather evidence that paints a picture of who America’s rich really are and how they got there. It’s not just public-company CEOs, but franchise owners and car dealership owners. They finish by giving advice to Scott’s kids about how they can end up rich.
Buy the book here: https://www.everywheremillionaire.com/.