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Tax Literacy Project
This group believes that it can greatly improve tax literacy in this country to everyone’s benefit.
Money From Taxes Helps Every Person Every Day! But Polls Show Most of Us Do Not Understand Anything About Our Taxes.
- Why should we bother learning about taxes?
- Because tax ignorance costs each of us money. Many of us pay more tax than we actually owe.
Because tax ignorance makes it hard to discuss and enact sound tax policies, we are not able to raise money in the fairest and most efficient manner possible.
- Why do we need taxes?
- Taxes support democracy. They fund government services and goods such as court systems and national defense that protect your life, your property, and your constitutional rights.
Taxes support economic growth. Governments use taxes to encourage economic growth in numerous ways such as maintaining a stable currency, enacting and enforcing laws that protect both workers and employers (their life and property), and helping to build and maintain large and dependable energy, transportation and communication systems.
Taxes support your daily quality of life. They help you and your family buy a
house, breathe clean air, have safe food and drugs, travel safely and efficiently on highways, trains, and planes. Taxes help pay for your health care (in the form of tax benefits or direct care) and they pay to educate you and your family. Taxes help you at work (e.g. enforce contracts, provide safe workplace) and help you at play (e.g. national parks).
Become part of a solution to the problem of tax ignorance by contributing to the Tax Literacy Project.
- What is the Tax Literacy Project?
It is a non-partisan effort to informally educate the public about taxes through popular methods such as web-based games and other internet activities.
- Can you support the Tax Literacy Project regardless of your political outlook?
Yes, the Project’s only purpose is to help provide information about tax, not to support any particular type or amount of taxes. No matter what kind of government people want, that government will cost money. Americans must understand how that money can be fairly and efficiently raised.
- How can you make a charitable contribution?
Make your donation payable to the Tax Literacy Fund at https://secure.asufoundation.org/giving/online-gift.asp?fid=418 (no appeal code necessary)
or
Make your check payable to the ASU Foundation and mail to the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, PO Box 877906, Tempe, AZ 85287-7906.
Thank you in advance for your interest and support.
For more information or to become involved, please contact the Project Director:
Marjorie E. Kornhauser, Professor of Law Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Marjorie.kornhauser@asu.edu
480.965.0396
All funds will be deposited with the ASU Foundation, a separate nonprofit organization that exists to support ASU. Your payment may be considered a charitable contribution. Please consult your tax advisor regarding the deductibility of charitable contributions.
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