In 2015, the largest number of taxpayers who claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) had incomes between $10,000 and $15,000. The same income group of taxpayers claimed the largest dollar amount of credits.
January 1, 2018
January 1, 2018
In 2017, state excise taxes on beer ranged from $0.02 per gallon in Wyoming to $1.29 per gallon in Tennessee. In other words, people in Tennessee paid about 71 cents more per six-pack of beer than people in Wyoming.
December 25, 2017
December 25, 2017
In 2015, state and local nontax revenue as a share of total revenue ranged from 12% in Connecticut to 42% in Alaska. On average, the largest source was fines and forfeits, rents, royalties, and private donations.
December 18, 2017
December 18, 2017
Dependents with significant earnings need to file income tax returns or they may file to get a refund for withheld taxes. Over 9 million dependents filed returns in 2015, with about half having income under $5000 and about 1 percent with income over $30,000.
December 11, 2017
December 11, 2017
Between 2002 and 2004, the average student loan interest deduction claim (in 2015 dollars) dipped from $907 to $794. It did not exceed its 2002 level until 2007. Since 2008, the average value of the deduction has outpaced inflation.
December 4, 2017
December 4, 2017
In 2015, 46% of Maryland taxpayers claimed a deduction for state and local taxes; this share was the highest in the country and well above the 30% national average.
November 20, 2017
November 20, 2017
In 2015, married couples filing jointly and itemizing claimed an avg of about $34k in deductions. Itemizing single filers took $20k on avg.
November 13, 2017
November 13, 2017
The estate tax exemption's real value has grown markedly over time (to nearly $5.5M in 2016). Most of the increase has occurred since 2000.
November 6, 2017
November 6, 2017
The personal exemption for married couples was $8.1k in 2016, twice the 1913 nominal value of $4k but just a twelfth of its $97k real value.
October 30, 2017
October 30, 2017
WWII turned the individual income tax into a major revenue source – it made up 15% of Federal revenues in 1935 and made up 47% in 2015.
October 23, 2017
October 23, 2017
Over 27 million families claimed the EITC in 2015; those with AGI between $15K and $20K received the largest average credit--about $4200.
October 16, 2017
October 16, 2017
Business income dropped 17% between 2006 and 2009, recovered that loss by 2011, and was 36% higher in 2015, totaling $961 billion that year.
October 9, 2017
October 9, 2017
3,000 individual income tax filers with AGI over $200k owed no tax in 2004, this number rose to 20,000 by 2012, and fell to 11,000 in 2014.
October 2, 2017
October 2, 2017
U.S federal, state, and local taxes totaled 26.4 percent of GDP in 2015, nearly 8 percentage points below the 34.3 percent OECD average.
September 25, 2017
September 25, 2017
The number of childless households headed by a person over 65 increased 77 percent between 1979 and 2013, from 16.5 million to 29.2 million.