Inflation Reduction Act, Congress boosted the Internal Revenue Service’s funding by nearly $80 billion over a ten-year span ...

The Trump administration has called for wide-ranging tariffs on potentially trillions of dollars of imported goods both to raise revenue and promote more domestic manufacturing. However, these will ...

The federal government distributes grants to states and localities for many purposes. Some grants are delivered directly to these governments, but others are “pass-through” grants that first go to ...

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 ...

Yes – immigrants of all legal statuses in the US pay federal, state, and local taxes. Like all other residents, immigrants of all legal statuses are required to pay income, payroll, property, sales, ...

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 ...

At current tax rates, the direct revenue loss from cutting tax rates almost always exceeds the indirect gain from increased activity or reduced tax avoidance. Cutting tax rates can, however, partly ...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act made significant changes to individual income taxes and the estate tax. Almost all these provisions expire after 2025. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) made substantial ...

A small number of colleges and universities in the United States have accumulated significant wealth in the form of endowments. Because these institutions are public and private nonprofit charitable ...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cut taxes substantially from 2018 through 2025. The resulting deficits are adding $1 to $2 trillion to the federal debt, according to official estimates from before and ...

Although prohibited under federal law, 21 states allow and levy some type of excise tax on recreational cannabis purchases. But different states use different taxes—percentage-of-price taxes, ...

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act discouraged charitable giving by reducing the number of taxpayers claiming a deduction for charitable giving and by reducing the tax saving for each dollar donated. The ...