Taxes

Raising Federal Revenues: 10 Less Harmful Options Skip to content Home • Blog • 10 Less Harmful Ways of Raising Federal Revenues The next president and Congress face two fiscal challenges in 2025 that may require finding new sources of revenues. First, the debt ceiling must be raised in early 2025, forcing decisions about how

Meals Tax Rates in US Cities | Restaurant & Prepared Food Taxes Skip to content Home • Blog • Meals Taxes across the Nation Patterns of food consumption have changed considerably over the last 50 years. Economic progress, prosperity, and higher standards of living are generally associated with food declining as a share of consumption.

EU Tobacco & Cigarette Taxes | EU Excise duties on cigarettes Skip to content Cigarette smokers in the European Union pay far more in excise taxes than they do for the cigarettes themselves. The EU Tobacco TaxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses

Sales Tax Rates by City, 2024 | Tax Foundation Skip to content Table of Contents Introduction Sales taxes in the United States are levied not only by state governments but also by city, county, tribal, and special district governments. In many cases, these local sales taxes comprise a significant share of the overall rate paid

Pillar Two Unintended Consequences | Tax Foundation Europe Skip to content Home • Blog • Pillar Two’s Unintended Consequences The OECD’s Pillar Two aims to establish a global minimum taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government

November 21, 2023November 20, 2023 How High Are State and Local Tax Collections in Your State? Contrary to initial expectations, the pandemic years were good for state and local tax collections, and while the surges of 2021 and 2022 have not continued into calendar year 2023, revenues remain robust in most states and well above

2024 Gas Taxes in Europe | Fuel Tax Rates: Gas & Diesel Skip to content Table of Contents Fuel taxes continue to be a central policy consideration for European countries amid supply chain disruptions related to the Russo-Ukraine war, increased emphasis on environmental policy, and deteriorating economic conditions felt by average consumers. The European Union

Harris Child Tax Credit & Economic Agenda: Details and Analysis Skip to content Home • Blog • Vice President Harris’s Tax Policy Ideas: Details and Analysis On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris began to sketch out details of her economic agenda as part of a fast-moving 2024 presidential campaign. On taxA tax is a mandatory

401(k) and IRAs: Retirement Savings Accounts | Tax Foundation Skip to content Home • Data • Federal Taxes • American Retirement and Tax-Preferred Savings Accounts, Tax Year 2018 Table of Contents Key Findings Traditional and Roth-style taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses

Help Americans Save More: Details & Analysis Skip to content Home • Blog • How Tax Reform Can Bolster Americans’ Shrinking Saving This is part of our educational blog series, “The Short Form,” to simplify taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to

Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Tax: US Transportation Funding Skip to content Table of Contents Key Findings Thanks to elevated deficits and interest rates, fiscal restraint is back in Washington. While substantially reversing America’s fiscal situation requires structural reforms to entitlements and taxes broadly, reforming transportation funding would also help. The user-pays principle is a sound

Transcript Every time you see a fire truck or school bus drive down the road, or get the mail, that’s thanks to a government service. How does the government pay for all those services? Taxes. And in the US, one look at a pay stub shows us that there are different levels and different types