Among OECD member countries, the United States is on the low end of taxes collected at all government levels—federal, state, and local—as a share of total economic activity or gross domestic product ...
How will tax policy evolve in the new administration and new Congress? President-elect Trump proposed a wide variety of tax changes in the presidential campaign including extending and reversing ...
T17-0153 - Repeal the Individual Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), Baseline: Current Law, Distribution of Federal Tax Change by Expanded Cash Income Percentile, 2017 ...
Taxpayers who itemize deductions on their federal income tax returns can deduct state and local taxes--specifically property taxes plus either income taxes or general sales taxes. However, the Tax ...
Total US tax revenue equaled 27 percent of gross domestic product, well below the 34 percent weighted average for the other 37 OECD countries. US taxes are low relative to those in other high-income ...
Tax expenditures make up a substantial part of the federal budget. Some of them are larger than the entire budgets of the programs or departments that spend money for the same or related purposes. For ...
Mandatory spending covers outlays controlled by laws other than appropriations acts. Almost all such spending is for “entitlements,” for which expenditures depend on individual eligibility and ...
Before the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) primarily affected well-off households, but not those with the very highest incomes. It was also more likely ...
State and local governments collected a combined $4.1 trillion of general revenues in fiscal year 2021, from a mix of income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, charges for specific government ...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act nearly doubled the standard deduction and eliminated or restricted many itemized deductions in 2018 through 2025. It also eliminated the “Pease” limitation on itemized ...
Tax expenditures are special provisions of the tax code such as exclusions, deductions, deferrals, credits, and tax rates that benefit specific activities or groups of taxpayers. The Congressional ...
The federal government collected revenues of $4.9 trillion in 2022—equal to 19.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) (figure 2). Over the past 50 years, federal revenue has averaged 17.4 percent ...