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Several provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) affecting individual income taxes are set to expire after 2025. Key among these expiring provisions are changes to the child tax credit ...
T25-0036 – Extend Certain Major Provisions in the 2017 Tax Act, Tax Units with a Tax Increase or Tax Cut, by ECI Level, 2026 ...
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 ...
The federal government spent nearly $1.5 trillion on health care in fiscal year 2022. In addition, income tax expenditures for health care totaled $300 billion. The federal government spent nearly ...
The tax expenditure budget displays the estimated revenue losses from special exclusions, exemptions, deductions, credits, deferrals, and preferential tax rates in federal income tax law. Every year, ...
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 ...
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 ...
What is the TPC model's primary data source? The TPC microsimulation model’s primary data source is the 2006 public-use file (PUF) produced by the Statistics of Income (SOI) Division of the Internal ...
Although prohibited under federal law, 21 states allow and levy some type of excise tax on recreational cannabis purchases. But different states use different taxes—percentage-of-price taxes, ...
Mandatory spending covers outlays controlled by laws other than appropriations acts. Almost all such spending is for “entitlements,” for which expenditures depend on individual eligibility and ...
In 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Congress provided the IRS with additional funding of nearly $80 billion through 2031. Nine months later, however, Congress and the White House agreed to reduce ...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act made significant changes to individual income taxes and the estate tax. Almost all these provisions expire after 2025. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) made substantial ...