Explainers
Jun 14, 2019
Budget Basics: Tax Expenditures
Tax expenditures can come in the form of exclusions, exemptions, deductions, and credits.
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Blog Posts
Apr 15, 2019
Six of the Largest Tax Breaks Explained
Tax breaks totaled nearly $1.5 trillion in 2018. To put that in perspective, that’s more than the government spends on Social Security, Medicare, or defense.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/04/Six-of-the-Largest-Tax-Breaks-Explained
Explainers
Apr 12, 2019
Budget Basics: Who Pays Taxes?
The fairness of our federal tax system is a hotly debated issue. Too often, however, those debates confuse or misrepresent important facts because they focus on one type of tax in isolation rather than the various taxes that people face in aggregate.
Charts
Apr 12, 2019
Major Tax Expenditures
Six popular tax provisions accounted for a large majority of annual tax expenditures for individuals.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0009_largest-tax-expenditures
Charts
Apr 3, 2019
Where taxes came from in 2018
The federal government collects revenue from a variety of sources.
Blog Posts
Mar 29, 2019
How Do Marginal Income Tax Rates Work — and What if We Increased Them?
Some lawmakers favor substantial increases to marginal tax rates. Let’s look at how marginal tax rates and brackets work.
Charts
Feb 13, 2019
Corporate Income Tax Revenue across G7 Countries
As a share of GDP, the U.S. corporate income tax revenue is the lowest among G7 countries
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Blog Posts
Dec 18, 2018
It’s Been 25 Years Since We Last Raised the Gas Tax, and Its Purchasing Power Has Eroded
The decline in purchasing power has important implications for the federal budget and our nation’s infrastructure, and has led some to call for a new effort to address the gas tax.
Blog Posts
Dec 17, 2018
9 Charts That Show How Our Fiscal Outlook Has Gone from Bad to Worse
Significant damage was done to America’s fiscal outlook over the past year.