Many workers who aren’t raising children are struggling, but there is little to no safety set to help them. And that extends to the tax code, where most provisions for low-income taxpayers are tied to having children. The earned income tax credit (EITC) for workers without children is paltry in c...

With large pieces of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) set to expire in 2025, taxes will be a top priority for the...

Join TPC at 1 pm today for the “Tax Policy, the 2024 Election, and a Look Ahead to 2025” event.

Patel is a nonresident senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy center and the Sorenson Assistant Professor in the Division of Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations at the Univeristy of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business. Patel’s work explores how policy—for example, tax s...

This presentation provides an overview of TCJA's major changes, their effects on the economy, and their impacts on families with children, pass-through businesses, multinational firms, and others.

To help policymakers, advocates, journalists, and the broader public navigate debates ahead, this presentation provides important background on the US tax system, including the major sources of revenues and spending for the federal government, how federal tax burdens vary by income, and how credi...

Trump’s proposed tariffs would hit Midwestern and Southern states the hardest.

Donald Trump’s proposal to levy a 60 percent tariff on imports from China and a 10 percent tariff on imports from all other nations would have huge implications for businesses, consumers, and state economies. In a new analysis, the Tax Policy Center finds the cost of the proposed tariffs would fa...