An Inconvenient Tax sheds light on one of America’s messiest problems — a fundamentally broken tax code that affects every part of people’s lives. With the U.S. Congress making over 16,000 changes to the tax code in the last two decades alone, many Americans want something better, but few know where to start. This feature-length documentary film reveals the many ways Congress uses the tax code to achieve political goals that have nothing to do with raising revenue. It also tackles the controversial issue of tax reform through a non-partisan presentation of U.S. tax history and current proposals to fix the code. In a time when America faces fiscal crisis, An Inconvenient Tax brings a crucial exploration of the tax code to the big screen.

Teaser for the film, An Inconvenient Tax.

Interview excerpt from "An Inconvenient Tax" with political activist Noam Chomsky.

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor emeritus and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well-known in the academic and scientific community as the father of modern linguistics. Chomsky received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. In 1961 he was appointed full professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at M.I.T. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–92 period.

Interview excerpt from "An Inconvenient Tax" with former IRS director Charles Rossotti

Charles O. Rossotti is an American businessman, and former IRS Commissioner. From 1965 to 1969, Rossotti worked for Robert S. McNamara, becoming Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. In 1970, Rossotti and several DOD colleagues co-founded American Management Systems, a technology and management consulting firm. Rossotti served as Chief Executive Officer from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. In 1997 Rossotti was named Commissioner of Internal Revenue where he served for 5 years. He detailed his experiences at the IRS in his book, Many Unhappy Returns: One Man’s Quest to Turn Around the Most Unpopular Organization in America. He currently serves as a senior advisor with the Carlyle Group.

Interview excerpt from the film "An Inconvenient Tax" with director of the Tax Policy Center, Leonard Burman.

Dr. Burman is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and director of the Tax Policy Center. He is an expert in public finance and modeling the effects of government policies on individuals' and firms' decisions. He has held high-level positions in both the executive and legislative branches, serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the Treasury from 1998 to 2000, and as Senior Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. Dr. Burman is also a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute, and previously taught economics at George Washington University and Bates College.