The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act increased the standard deduction, eliminated personal exemptions, doubled the maximum child tax credit (CTC) from $1,000 to $2,000 per child under age 17, and added a ...

Balanced budget requirements (BBRs) are constitutional or statutory rules that generally prohibit states from spending more than they collect in revenue in a fiscal year. However, these state rules ...

The exclusion of employer-paid premiums for health insurance from federal income and payroll taxes is the single largest tax expenditure, costing the federal government an estimated $299 billion in ...

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 ...

House and Senate Republicans are seeking to enact President Donald Trump’s tax agenda, which includes extending the expiring pieces of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and restoring TCJA business ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corporations and individual taxpayers who itemize can deduct charitable contributions to 501(c)(3) organizations. Many nonprofit institutions are exempt from paying federal income tax, but taxpayers ...

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 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, ...

T25-0051 – Characteristics of Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) Payers in 2024-26, and 2035 ...

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 ...