Several provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) affecting individual income taxes are set to expire after 2025. Key among these expiring provisions are changes to the child tax credit ...

The 2008 and 2009 tax acts provided large temporary tax cuts to most households, with the goal of helping the economy recover from the Great Recession. The 2010 tax act extended specific provisions of ...

A tariff is a tax on imported goods. Despite what the President says, it is almost always paid directly by the importer (usually a domestic firm), and never by the exporting country. Thus, if the US ...

States rely heavily on gas taxes to pay for transportation construction and maintenance costs. In 2021, state motor fuel taxes generated about $50 billion in revenue. State and local motor fuel tax ...

The American Rescue Plan Act significantly expanded the child tax credit (CTC) for 2021, but according to the Treasury Department, as many as 2.3 million children might miss out on benefits because ...

When you sell or exchange an asset like stocks or real estate at a price higher than what you paid, you pay tax on your profit, or capital gain. Right now, capital gains face no tax until they are ...

Despite the rollback, the IRS still has big goals, with plans to use about 44 percent for operations support, 41 percent for enforcement, 8 percent for modernization, and 6 percent funds taxpayer ...

Total state government tax revenue collections rose 3.0 percent in nominal terms and 0.6 percent in real terms in the first quarter of 2024 relative to a year earlier Key tax revenue sources showed ...

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) temporarily expanded the so-called “childless” EITC, or the earned income tax credit for workers without children at home. The maximum credit for these ...

Fines and fees can impose heavy burdens on those who come into contact with the criminal legal system. Using nationally representative data from the Urban Institute’s 2023 Well-Being and Basic Needs ...

This report provides an overview of interactions between the federal individual income tax system and racial and ethnic disparities in the United States. The tax code may appear to be “race blind” ...

The declining values of office buildings across the country in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic could significantly change how major cities and other localities raise revenue and provide public ...