Individual Tax Expenditures Archive

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings The U.S. system of taxes and transfers is highly progressive. Measuring comprehensive income, inclusive of market-based income and government taxes and transfers, illustrates the total fiscal burden created by a fiscal system. Income transfer programs amplify the U.S. federal tax system’s progressivity, move the state and local system from moderate regressivity

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 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 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

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The federal government is on track to run a $1.4 trillion deficit in fiscal year 2023, according to new projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Across the next decade (2024 through 2033), deficits will total more than $20 trillion, reaching an annual budget deficit of nearly $2.9 trillion in 2033. Completely balancing

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings The federal tax code remains a major source of frustration and controversy for Americans, and a hindrance to economic growth and opportunity. Other countries, such as Estonia, have proven that sufficient tax revenue can be collected in a less frustrating and more efficient way. This report provides an analysis of the