T17-0153 - Repeal the Individual Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), Baseline: Current Law, Distribution of Federal Tax Change by Expanded Cash Income Percentile, 2017 ...

The federal government distributes grants to states and localities for many purposes. Some grants are delivered directly to these governments, but others are “pass-through” grants that first go to ...

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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act nearly doubled the standard deduction and eliminated or restricted many itemized deductions in 2018 through 2025. It also eliminated the “Pease” limitation on itemized ...

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 ...

Motor fuel taxes are taxes levied on gasoline, diesel, and gasohol (a mixture of ethanol and unleaded gasoline). State and local governments collected a combined $53 billion in revenue from motor fuel ...

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Total US tax revenue equaled 27 percent of gross domestic product, well below the 34 percent weighted average for the other 37 OECD countries. US taxes are low relative to those in other high-income ...

Tax expenditures are special provisions of the tax code such as exclusions, deductions, deferrals, credits, and tax rates that benefit specific activities or groups of taxpayers. The Congressional ...

T24-0031 - Tax Units with a Tax Increase or Tax Cut from Making Certain Provisions in 2017 Tax Act Permanent, by ECI Percentile, 2027 ...

Taxpayers who itemize deductions on their federal income tax returns can deduct state and local taxes--specifically property taxes plus either income taxes or general sales taxes. However, the Tax ...

A small number of colleges and universities in the United States have accumulated significant wealth in the form of endowments. Because these institutions are public and private nonprofit charitable ...