Hank Adler

Mr. Hank Adler is the Burra Executive Professor of Accounting at Chapman University. He was in public accounting for almost thirty-four years, the last twenty as a partner at Deloitte & Touche.

California Billionaires Tax Raises Hard Questions of Fairness, Constitutionality

Commentary California voters will wake up on Nov. 3, 2026, to vote on the nation’s first statewide tax ...

Viewpoints January 19, 2026
Los Angeles’s Office Market Is in Even More Trouble Than Before

Commentary On April 1, 2023, a new transfer tax on all real estate transactions in the city of ...

Viewpoints May 17, 2023
California Legislature Proposes a Wealth Tax

Commentary Members of the California legislature have again proposed a wealth tax on the world-wide net worth of ...

Viewpoints March 24, 2023
California’s Sports Betting Battle

Commentary It's illegal in California to bet on sports events. That illegality extends both to bets in person ...

Viewpoints August 30, 2022
Deducting the Cost of My School’s New Quarterback

Commentary Since 1987, taxpayers have been denied charitable deductions for contributions to their university’s athletic department if the ...

Viewpoints August 4, 2022
9th Circuit Panel Opens Doors for Progressive Tax Wish List

Commentary In June, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Moore v. United States ...

Viewpoints July 12, 2022
Federal Government Wins Big From Twitter Sale

Commentary Elon Musk is the best thing to happen to the U.S. Treasury since the 16th Amendment to ...

Viewpoints April 29, 2022
DEBT4GIVN: The Folly of Student Debt Forgiveness

Commentary If we see a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon getting into his new 2023 Porsche Carrera with the ...

Viewpoints April 21, 2022
Biden’s Billionaire Tax Is Neither Constitutional Nor Defendable

Commentary The Biden budget proposal includes a “billionaire tax.” On Dec. 31, 2023, taxpayers with over $100 million ...

Viewpoints April 14, 2022
California Universal Single Payer–Another California Nightmare

Commentary The Health and Appropriations committees of the California Assembly voted to move forward with a mandatory $400 ...

Viewpoints February 3, 2022
Build Back Better—Punishing the GOAT

Commentary The greatest athletes of all time, the GOAT's, could become the G-TOAT's, the greatest taxpayers of all ...

Viewpoints November 29, 2021
A Billion Questions About the Billionaires’ Tax

Commentary “According to reports, Republicans are still furiously debating changes to their bill. And no one knows when ...

Viewpoints October 28, 2021
Hundreds of Billions of Dollars of New and Unlimited State and Local Tax Deductions for Wealthy Taxpayers Have Already Been Passed

Commentary From the moment of passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Democrats from high ...

Viewpoints September 26, 2021
A Very Unreliable Tax System

Commentary The Internal Revenue Code should be considered a contract between citizens and the government. When Congress makes ...

Viewpoints September 20, 2021
Biden’s New Death Tax Would Tax Millions Who Are Currently Exempt From Estate Taxes

Commentary The Biden Budget Plan would subject millions of Americans to a new death tax. Biden's proposal is ...

Viewpoints September 8, 2021