Taxes

Repealing Head of Household Filing Status: Details and Analysis Skip to content Home • Blog • Repealing Head of Household Filing Status: Details and Analysis As lawmakers prepare for the debate over the expiration of the 2017 TaxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or

Trump Tariffs: Revenue Estimates | Tax Foundation Skip to content Home • Blog • Revenue Estimates of Trump’s Universal Baseline Tariffs President-elect Donald Trump has proposed to implement a universal baseline tariffTariffs are taxes imposed by one country on goods imported from another country. Tariffs are trade barriers that raise prices, reduce available quantities of

Super-Rich Effective Tax Rates: US Treasury Report Skip to content Home • Blog • The Super-Rich Pay Super-Amounts of Taxes, New Treasury Report Finds A common refrain from many progressive lawmakers is that the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes. “Fair share” is, of course, subjective. But a new Treasury study provides data

Premium Cigar Taxes by State, 2024 | Tax Foundation Skip to content Table of Contents Over 500 million premium cigars were sold in the United States in 2023. With each sale comes a complex taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover

Blog July 24, 2024October 30, 2024 Where Does Kamala Harris Stand on Taxes? While both President Biden and Vice President Harris aim their proposed tax hikes on businesses and high earners, key differences between their tax ideas in the past reveal where Harris may take her tax policy platform in the 2024 campaign. 6 min

Spain’s Poorly Designed Tax Policy Hurts Its Competitiveness Skip to content Home • Blog • Spain’s Poorly Designed Tax Policy Hurts Its Competitiveness Spain’s central government could learn some valuable lessons from its regional governments and other European countries about sound taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national

How Will the Trump Tariffs Impact the US Economy? Skip to content Home • Blog • How Will Trump’s Universal and China Tariffs Impact the Economy? President-elect Trump has promised to impose steep new taxes on trade, including a 10-20 percent tariff on all imports, at least a 60 percent tariffTariffs are taxes imposed by

Estate and inheritance taxes are burdensome. They disincentivize investment and can drive high-net-worth individuals out of state. They also yield estate planning and tax avoidance strategies that are inefficient, not only for affected taxpayers but also for the economy at large. The handful of states that still impose them should consider gradually eliminating them or

Trump Tax Cuts, Tariffs, and Reconciliation | Tax Foundation Skip to content Home • Blog • Questions About Tax Cuts, Tariffs, and Reconciliation After the Election The clear election victory for Republicans means they will retake the White House, Senate, and (by a slim margin) the House next year, putting them in the driver’s seat

State Drug Policy: Marijuana Legalization | Tax Foundation Skip to content Home • Blog • Momentum Slows for State Drug Legalization Policies via 2024 State Ballot Initiatives Drug policy was on the ballot in many states in 2024. Voters in Florida, North Carolina, and South Dakota considered legalizing recreational marijuana; voters in Nebraska had the

Europe August 8, 2023July 16, 2024 Patent Box Regimes in Europe, 2023 The aim of patent boxes is generally to encourage and attract local research and development (R&D) and to incentivize businesses to locate IP in the country. However, patent boxes can introduce another level of complexity to a tax system, and some recent research

2024 Summer Olympics Taxes | TaxEDU Skip to content Home • Blog • How Are Olympians and Attendees Taxed? This is part of our educational blog series, “The Short Form,” to simplify taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs

Trump Social Security Tax Proposal: Details & Analysis Skip to content Home • Blog • Exempting Social Security Benefits from Income Tax Is Unsound and Fiscally Irresponsible On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump indicated he would support exempting Social Security benefits from income taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state,

Blog October 31, 2023November 1, 2023 New Study Finds TCJA Strongly Boosted Corporate Investment The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was the largest corporate tax reform in a generation, lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, temporarily allowing full expensing for short-lived assets (referred to as bonus depreciation), and

2024 State Gas Tax Rates | 2024 Gas Taxes by State Skip to content Table of Contents Gas taxes affect the lives and finances of most Americans. Today’s map illustrates gas taxA gas tax is commonly used to describe the variety of taxes levied on gasoline at both the federal and state levels, to provide

STATES Act 2.0 Sets the Stage for Federal Cannabis Reform Skip to content Home • Blog • STATES 2.0 Act Sets the Stage for Federal Cannabis Policy According to recent reports, 72 percent of the current marijuana market in the US is illicit. Evidently, the federal criminalization of marijuana has failed to prevent its sale

IRS Tax Compliance Costs the US Economy $546B Annually Skip to content Table of Contents The federal taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. code imposes many costs on the US economy.

Tim Walz Tax Policies: Details & Analysis Skip to content Home • Blog • Gov. Tim Walz Raised Taxes as Most Governors Cut Them Most states have cut taxes at least once since 2021, with a renewed emphasis on taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from

Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Tax: US Transportation Funding Skip to content Table of Contents Key Findings Thanks to elevated deficits and interest rates, fiscal restraint is back in Washington. While substantially reversing America’s fiscal situation requires structural reforms to entitlements and taxes broadly, reforming transportation funding would also help. The user-pays principle is a sound

Did the TCJA Simplify the Tax Code? | Compliance & Complexity Skip to content Home • Blog • How Did the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Simplify the Tax Code? If the individual provisions of the TaxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses