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 about wasteful tax expenditures with Calvin Johnson, which Professor Johnson believes includes basically all tax expenditures.