- What would happen if the US Government substantially increased the standard deduction? https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-standard-deduction 266 comments economics
- A Federal Gas Tax Holiday Is A Terrible Idea https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/federal-gas-tax-holiday-terrible-idea 127 comments politics
- A Carbon Tax is Not the Solution to Global Climate Change https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/carbon-tax-not-solution-global-climate-change 11 comments climate
- Pandemic Bill Would Cut Taxes by An Average of $3,000, With Most Relief Going to Low- And Middle-Income Households https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/pandemic-bill-would-cut-taxes-average-3000-most-relief-going-low-and-middle-income-households 34 comments politics
- Poorest 20% of Americans estimated to see ~20 percent boost in income from Biden relief plan, Richest 1% to receive income boost of 0%, analysis says. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/model-estimates/american-rescue-plan-act-2021-senate-version-february-2021/t21-0039-major-individual 34 comments politics
- There Will Be No Showdown Over The Next COVID-19 Stimulus Bill. Pelosi Already Won. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/there-will-be-no-showdown-over-next-covid-19-stimulus-bill-pelosi-already-won 29 comments politics
- An Analysis of Former Vice President Biden’s Tax Proposals https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/analysis-former-vice-president-bidens-tax-proposals/full 12 comments politics
- An Analysis of Former Vice President Biden’s Tax Proposals https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/analysis-former-vice-president-bidens-tax-proposals/full 212 comments moderatepolitics
- No, The US Is Not Overtaxed https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/no-us-not-overtaxed 13 comments politics
- Only About One-Quarter of Corporate Stock is owned by Taxable Shareholders https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/only-about-one-quarter-corporate-stock-owned-taxable-shareholders 3 comments politics
- Corporate tax bracket history. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/taxfacts/content/pdf/corporate_historical_bracket.pdf 3 comments tax
- Distributional Analysis of the Conference Agreement for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/distributional-analysis-conference-agreement-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act 5 comments politics
- Distributional Analysis of the Conference Agreement for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/distributional-analysis-conference-agreement-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act/full 5 comments politics
- The Senate's Tax Bill Would Cut Taxes Three Times More For Business Owners Than Workers http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/senates-tax-bill-would-cut-taxes-three-times-more-business-owners-workers 17 comments politics
- Winners and Losers After Paying for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act - Tax Policy Center http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/winners-and-losers-after-paying-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act/full 8 comments tax
- Under GOP Tax Plan "higher income households receive larger average tax cuts, with largest cuts going to taxpayers in the 95th to 99th percentiles" - Tax Policy Center http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/distributional-analysis-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-passed-senate 10 comments politics
- New Tax Policy Centre analysis: Bill that passed the Senate raises taxes on: -- 7% of taxpayers in 2019 -- 10% of taxpayers in 2025 -- 48% of taxpayers in 2027 http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/publication/149851/2001628-distributional_analysis_of_the_tax_cuts_and_jobs_act_as_passed_by_the_senate_1.pdf 18 comments politics
- Analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/feature/analysis-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act 3 comments politics
- Tax Cuts Won’t Make America Great Again http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tax-cuts-wont-make-america-great-again 16 comments politics
- Independent analysis of the Trump administration’s tax framework from the Tax Policy Center estimates it will cause a $2.4 trillion reduction in federal revenues in the first decade. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/preliminary-analysis-unified-framework 5 comments politics
- The Tax Policy Center's Preliminary Analysis of the Unified Framework (Trump's tax reform plan) [PDF] http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/publication/144971/a_preliminary_analysis_of_the_unified_framework_0.pdf 3 comments politics
- Cutting Taxes and Making Future Americans Pay for It: How Trump’s Tax Cuts Could Hurt Many Households http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/cutting-taxes-and-making-future-americans-pay-it-how-trumps-tax-cuts-could-hurt-many/full 24 comments politics
- Make less than $50K? You're going to lose money under the GOP healthcare proposal. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/ahcas-tax-changes-and-transfers-would-benefit-wealthy-hurt-lowest-income-households 577 comments politics
- Repealing the Affordable Care Act Would Cut Taxes For High Income Households, Raise Taxes For Many Others http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/repealing-affordable-care-act-would-cut-taxes-high-income-households-raise-taxes-many-others 74 comments politics
- Latest Trump tax plan adds trillions to the national debt, Clinton plan trims deficits by taxing the wealthy http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/latest-trump-tax-plan-adds-trillions-national-debt-clinton-plan-trims-deficits-taxing-wealthy 12 comments politics
- An Analysis of Senator Bernie Sanders's Tax and Transfer Proposals. Measured as a share of income, that additional support would be most beneficial to low-income households. All groups would receive higher net transfers (transfers less taxes) except for those in the top 5 percent of households. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/alfresco/publication-pdfs/2000786-an-analysis-of-senator-bernie-sanderss-tax-and-transfer-proposals.pdf 3 comments politics
- An Analysis of Senator Bernie Sanders's Tax Proposals - New revenues would pay for universal health care, education, family leave, rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, and more. http://taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=2000639 677 comments politics
- An analysis of Governor Bush's tax plan: The plan would improve incentives to work, save, and invest, but unless accompanied by very large spending cuts, it could increase the national debt by as much as 50 percent of GDP by 2036, which would tend to put a drag on the economy. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/uploadedpdf/2000547-analysis-of-bush-tax-plan.pdf 11 comments politics
- How do US taxes compare internationally? http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/numbers/international.cfm 11 comments economy
- How do total US taxes compare internationally? http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/numbers/international.cfm 17 comments moderatepolitics
- With Romney's Tax Returns Making Hay Here is the Effective Tax Rates of American's by Quintile http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?docid=456 38 comments moderatepolitics
- In 2011, 7000 millionaires paid no income tax. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/displayatab.cfm?docid=3056 5 comments politics
- 46.4% of Americans do not pay income taxes, but out of that, 61.0% pay salary tax, 22.2% are elderly, 14.9% have incomes of <20k http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/federal-taxes-households.cfm 4 comments politics
- It is important to note that of the 47% who do not pay income tax, 28.3% pay payroll tax, 10.3% are elderly and the other 6.9% have an income under $20,000. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/images/breakdown3-06-17-11.gif 4 comments politics
- US Tax rates are at an all time low. I'm sick of hearing people who make over the median income bitch about how hard they have it because of their taxes. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?docid=213 5 comments reddit.com
- 2.4 million people died in 2006; of those, only 1 in 73 generated an estate tax return and only 1 in 163 had to pay any estate tax. That means only 201 people had estate worth more than the $3.5 million exemption. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/key-elements/estate/how-many.cfm 10 comments politics
- after taking the drag from the larger budget deficits into account, the net effect from the tax cuts is likely to be a reduction in long-term growth http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/bush-tax-cuts/long-term-growth.cfm 15 comments economy
- Over the last 60 years, corporate income taxes dropped dramatically while payroll taxes increased to fill the void. The poorest and the middle class are now subsidizing the very rich. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/numbers/revenue.cfm 19 comments politics
- The personal exemption has been a basic feature of the modern individual income tax since it was enacted. In 1913 it was set at $3,000 (equivalent to $64,730 in 2009 dollars), so that very few persons were expected to pay tax (add:actually only those earning passive income like stock dividends) http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/key-elements/family/exemptions.cfm 12 comments economy
- More than two-thirds of all returns with small business income are in the 15 percent or lower tax bracket, and 88 percent face rates of 25 percent or below. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000651&rssfeed=corporate,_business_taxation.xml 4 comments business