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 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 ...

Tax expenditures make up a substantial part of the federal budget. Some of them are larger than the entire budgets of the programs or departments that spend money for the same or related purposes. For ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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For 2021, the child tax credit provided a credit of up to $3,600 per child under age 6 and $3,000 per child from ages 6 to 17. If the credit exceeded taxes owed, families could receive the excess ...

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 ...

TPC estimates that just over 7,100 estate tax returns will be filed for people who die in 2023, of which only about 4,000 will be taxable—less than 0.2 percent of the 2.8 million people expected to ...

The standard deduction reduces a taxpayer’s taxable income. It ensures that only households with income above certain thresholds will owe any income tax. Taxpayers can claim a standard deduction when ...

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 ...