The Laffer Curve is a graphical representation of the relationship between tax rates, tax revenue, and taxable income. It is frequently cited by people who want to explain the common-sense notion that ...

Art Laffer of “Laffer Curve” fame has put Stamp Duty back on the agenda, arguing that the UK would be better off replacing stamp duty with wealth taxes on property akin to those used in the US.

A rather hoary old question has raised its head again in my native UK: should HSBC Bank move its domicile out of the UK again? The point being made is that most of its business is outside the UK and ...

Stephen Moore, who formerly wrote on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal, is a distinguished visiting fellow for the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation. He ...

Arthur Laffer is best known as the economist who invented the Laffer Curve, a diagram that purports to show how an optimal tax rate can maximize revenues without discouraging people from working. In ...

WASHINGTON — It is one of the iconic moments in modern economics: A young professor named Arthur Laffer sketched a curve on a bar napkin in 1974 to show an aide to President Gerald R. Ford why the ...

Long before Donald Trump, there was an economist. His name was Arthur Laffer. He developed an idea he cleverly named after himself. It has become the First Commandment of modern Republicanism. But it ...

The Laffer Curve—the conceptual device illustrating how high marginal tax rates reduced revenue and economic growth—helped revolutionize tax policy around the world thirty five years ago. Every ...