Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The Geographic Distribution of Extreme Wealth in the U.S. Excessive concentration of wealth runs counter to our national aspiration for genuine equality of opportunity, and it saps the vitality of our democracy through the …

Oct 7, 2024 · Steve Wamhoff, “Extending Temporary Provisions of the 2017 Trump Tax Law: Updated National and State-by-State Estimates,” Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, September 13, 2024. Steve Wamhoff, ”The Estate Tax is Irrelevant to More Than 99 Percent of Americans,“ Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, December 7, 2023. Lester & Rector (2016) find that 37.2

Dec 12, 2024 · Former President Trump has offered several tax proposals, which are all included in these estimates: Extending the temporary provisions in Trump’s 2017 tax law that will otherwise expire at the end of 2025, except for the $10,000 cap on State and Local Tax (SALT) deductions, which Trump says he would not extend; Exempting certain types of income from taxes (overtime pay, tips, and Social ...

Jan 17, 2023 · Flat Rate Income Taxes Come with Significant Downsides. Flat taxes consign states to regressive and inequitable taxation that falls far short of the “flat tax” ideal proponents claim to value, and do not advance the economic, budgetary, or simplicity goals commonly used to advocate for their enactment.

May 2, 2024 · The Trump tax law slashed taxes for America’s largest, consistently profitable corporations. These companies saw their effective tax rates fall from an average of 22.0 percent to an average of 12.8 percent after the Trump tax law went into effect in 2018.

Nov 12, 2024 · Federal, state, and local tax codes are important but underused tools that can create a more climate-resilient, less carbon-emitting America. A modernized tax code would stop subsidizing emissions and instead encourage lower-carbon design. Because cars and trucks produce roughly one-fourth of US greenhouse gas emissions, transportation taxation is a …

Jan 17, 2025 · President Trump and the Republican majorities in the House and Senate may not extend the $10,000 cap on federal income tax deductions for state and local taxes (SALT), the one part of the 2017 law that significantly limits tax breaks for the rich. And, depending on which proposal they settle on, leaving out the existing cap on SALT deductions could add between $10 billion and over $100 billion ...

Jul 30, 2024 · Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both because their wages would rise and because their rates of …

Oct 23, 2024 · Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have put forward a wide range of different tax proposals during this year’s campaign. We have now fully analyzed the distributional impacts of the major proposals of both Vice President Harris and former President Trump in separate analyses. In all, the tax proposals announced by Harris would, on average, lead to a tax cut for all income ...

July 30, 2024 Study: Undocumented Immigrants Contribute Nearly $100 Billion in Taxes a Year news release