House and Senate Republicans are seeking to enact President Donald Trump’s tax agenda, which includes extending the expiring pieces of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and restoring TCJA business ...

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 ...

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, ...

General sales taxes are taxes on goods and services purchased by consumers, and the tax is a calculated as a percentage of the listed retail cost and added to the final purchase price paid by the ...

Balanced budget requirements (BBRs) are constitutional or statutory rules that generally prohibit states from spending more than they collect in revenue in a fiscal year. However, these state rules ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...