Taxes

Property Taxes by State & County: Median Property Tax Bills Skip to content Property taxes are the primary tool for financing local governments. In fiscal year 2021, property taxes comprised 30 percent of total state and local taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or

November 21, 2023November 20, 2023 How High Are State and Local Tax Collections in Your State? Contrary to initial expectations, the pandemic years were good for state and local tax collections, and while the surges of 2021 and 2022 have not continued into calendar year 2023, revenues remain robust in most states and well above

Harris Child Tax Credit & Economic Agenda: Details and Analysis Skip to content Home • Blog • Vice President Harris’s Tax Policy Ideas: Details and Analysis On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris began to sketch out details of her economic agenda as part of a fast-moving 2024 presidential campaign. On taxA tax is a mandatory

401(k) and IRAs: Retirement Savings Accounts | Tax Foundation Skip to content Home • Data • Federal Taxes • American Retirement and Tax-Preferred Savings Accounts, Tax Year 2018 Table of Contents Key Findings Traditional and Roth-style taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses

2024 Gas Taxes in Europe | Fuel Tax Rates: Gas & Diesel Skip to content Table of Contents Fuel taxes continue to be a central policy consideration for European countries amid supply chain disruptions related to the Russo-Ukraine war, increased emphasis on environmental policy, and deteriorating economic conditions felt by average consumers. The European Union

Help Americans Save More: Details & Analysis Skip to content Home • Blog • How Tax Reform Can Bolster Americans’ Shrinking Saving 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

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

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.

Transcript Every time you see a fire truck or school bus drive down the road, or get the mail, that’s thanks to a government service. How does the government pay for all those services? Taxes. And in the US, one look at a pay stub shows us that there are different levels and different types

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