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State tax revenue trends in the third quarter of 2024 and for the first half of fiscal year 2025 reveal a complex and variable fiscal environment. While some tax streams showed gains, broader patterns ...

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 ...

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 ...

The top 10 percent of income earners pays more than 90 percent of the tax, with nearly 30 percent paid by the richest 0.1 percent. Few farms or family businesses pay the tax. The Urban-Brookings Tax ...

Workers, owners of capital, and households that consume a disproportionate amount of taxed items all bear the burden of federal excise taxes. Excise taxes create a wedge between the price the final ...

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 ...

A "soda tax" is generally imposed as a per ounce excise tax on drinks sweetened with sugar. No state currently levies taxes on soda alone, but a few localities do. While often called soda taxes, these ...

The difference is whether heirs who sell an inherited asset will pay tax on the capital gains from the time the asset was originally purchased or from the time it was inherited. The difference in tax ...