Excise Taxes Archive

Biden Budget Tax Proposals: Details & Analysis
March 23, 2023
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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

State Debt, State Revenue, and State Tax Collections
March 23, 2023
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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

Vermont Tobacco Flavor Ban Revenue Cost $16 Million
March 22, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Vermont Senate Bill 18 would ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products. The Fiscal Note accompanying the bill estimates a revenue loss of $5.6 million in the first full year following the ban. Our calculations show this is a major underestimate of the revenue loss. We estimate the annual effects of the

Biden Tax Fairness: Double Taxation
March 13, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As President Biden pointed out in his State of the Union address to raucous applause, “I think a lot of you at home agree with me that our present tax system is simply unfair.” Two often overlooked aspects of unfairness in our tax code are complexity and double taxation, which would be made

Cities Want to Tax Streaming Services, but They’re Not Sure Why
February 27, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Keen technophiles may recall that the internet is “a series of tubes” (not a “big truck”), and sometimes those tubes get congested. The late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) fretted about streaming services crowding out other data packets. The analysis is highly technical, but do your best to follow: “Ten movies streaming across that

California Flavored Tobacco Ban: Details & Analysis
February 24, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares One month following California’s implementation of a state-wide flavored cigarette ban, tax-paid cigarette sales dropped 17.3 percent. More than 5.6 million fewer packs were sold in January 2023 than in January 2022. On an annual basis, California will likely see revenues fall by more than $300 million. We previously estimated that a menthol

New York Cigarette Tax Hike and Flavor Ban Proposal
January 24, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has her sights trained on tobacco. Earlier this month, she proposed increasing the New York cigarette tax rate by $1.00 a pack, banning the sale of flavored vaping products, and ceasing the sale of all flavored tobacco products. If enacted, these policies would fuel black markets and create

US Income Growth & US Progressive Tax Code: Federal Tax Rate Data
January 10, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Newly published data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) indicates in 2019, before the onset of the pandemic, American incomes continued to rise as part of a broad economic expansion. It also shows that, contrary to common perceptions, the federal tax system is progressive. The data on household incomes and tax burdens also comes

2023 State Tax Changes, Effective January 1, 2023
December 22, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Most state tax changes take effect at the beginning of the calendar year (January 1) or at the beginning of the fiscal year (July 1 for most states). On January 1, 2023, thirty-eight states have noteworthy tax changes taking effect. Most of these changes represent net tax reductions, the result of an unprecedented

Wireless Taxes: Cell Phone Tax Rates by State
December 20, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings A typical American household with four phones on a “family share” plan, paying $100 per month for taxable wireless service, would pay nearly $305 per year in taxes, fees, and government surcharges—up slightly from $300 in 2021. Nationally, taxes, fees, and government surcharges make up a record-high 25.4 percent tax on