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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Topline Preliminary Estimates Net Deficit Impact Long-run GDP Wages FTE Jobs Note: *On a conventional basis. Source: Tax Foundation General Equilibrium Model, March 2023. President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget outlines several major tax increases that would add up to nearly $4.8 trillion in new taxes targeted at businesses and high-income individuals. After $833 billion

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares How do taxes in your state compare regionally and nationally? Facts and Figures, a resource we’ve provided to U.S. taxpayers and legislators since 1941, serves as a one-stop state tax data resource that compares all 50 states on over 40 measures of tax rates, collections, burdens, and more. For visualizations and further analysis of 2023 state tax

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The tax relief package in Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (D)’s fiscal year 2024 budget proposal includes several positive developments for the Bay State. It acknowledges that Massachusetts is an outlier with respect to the estate tax and its bifurcated capital gains tax. It also subtly concedes the poor condition of the Commonwealth’s tax

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget outlines several major tax increases that would bring U.S. tax rates far out of step with international norms. Some of the proposals may be familiar, recycled from prior budgets and failed legislative attempts, but some are new, like the proposed tax hikes for Medicare funding. In total,

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Note: The following is the testimony of Garrett Watson, Senior Policy Analyst and Modeling Manager at the Tax Foundation, prepared for U.S. Senate Committee on Finance hearing on March 7, 2023, titled, “Tax Policy’s Role in Increasing Affordable Housing Supply for Working Families.” Reforming the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and Improving Cost Recovery

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares President Biden signed the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 into law in August of last year, promising $52 billion of manufacturing incentives on top of $24 billion of investment tax credits. But passing a law to authorize billions of dollars’ worth of incentives for semiconductor investment is not a guarantee to

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Most countries’ personal income taxes have a progressive structure, meaning that the tax rate paid by individuals increases as they earn higher wages. The highest tax rate individuals pay differs significantly across European OECD countries—as shown in today’s map. The top statutory personal income tax rate applies to the share of income that