CITP Seminar: Mark Verhagen – Simplifying a Tax Code: How to Algorithmically Reduce Complexity in Rules Systems
In-person attendance is open to Princeton University faculty, staff, students and alumni.A complex tax code places burdens on taxpayers to navigate a myriad of rules, as well as on bureaucrats to correctly enforce these rules. Often, tax code complexity is the unwanted collateral of many laws enacted over prolonged periods that…