Distribution of all federal taxes combined, by income level, under a current law baseline for 2019. Supplemental sheets provide a breakdown by filing status, presence...
Distribution of all federal taxes combined, by income percentile, under a current law baseline for 2019. Supplemental sheets provide a breakdown by filing status, presence...
Distribution of all federal taxes combined, by income level, under a current law baseline for 2025. Supplemental sheets provide a breakdown by filing status, presence...
Distribution of all federal taxes combined, by income percentile, under a current law baseline for 2025. Supplemental sheets provide a breakdown by filing status, presence...
Distribution of all federal taxes combined, by income level, under a current law baseline for 2026. Supplemental sheets provide a breakdown by filing status, presence...
Distribution of all federal taxes combined, by income percentile, under a current law baseline for 2026. Supplemental sheets provide a breakdown by filing status, presence...
Distribution of all federal taxes combined, by income level, under a current law baseline for 2028. Supplemental sheets provide a breakdown by filing status, presence...
Distribution of all federal taxes combined, by income percentile, under a current law baseline for 2028. Supplemental sheets provide a breakdown by filing status, presence...
Distribution of all federal taxes combined, by income percentile, under a current law baseline for 2011-2028. Baseline is the law in place for each year...
The idea of indexing capital gains for inflation is getting a lot of attention these days. Larry Kudlow, who heads the White House National Economic...
Back in the presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised to eliminate the national debt in eight years. This goal was never plausible, even before Congress...
According to the latest CBO estimates of after-tax household income, the share received by the bottom quintile of households was 6.9 percent in 2014, and has fluctuated between 6 and 7 percent for over 30 years.
Adjusting Social Security retirement ages as people live longer would significantly improve trust fund balances over the long run, though it would have only modest effects in the short term. By the 75th year, Social Security actuaries project that raising the retirement age by indexing it to life
As people live longer, they spend more time in retirement, straining Social Security’s finances. This brief outlines the implications of three approaches to adjusting Social Security for longer lives: making no adjustment, which has applied over most of Social Security’s history; keeping constant
