The Build Back Better (BBB) bill’s winter holiday gives Congress more time to evaluate the plan’s components, including a 15 percent minimum tax on the...
The federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund is funded by an excise tax of $0.09 per barrel of crude oil. In 2020, the trust fund collected $412 million in revenue.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants to use $1 billion in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds to suspend Florida’s gas tax for five months. Suspending the...
Federal, state, and local government officials are increasingly paying attention to reforms of fines and fees. These constitute a small share of total revenues, but they can be particularly harmful because of unjust policing and sentencing practices. This research report first explores how much is
Over the past three decades, the United States has gone from taxing roughly half of closely held business (that is, firms other than corporations) and...
Public benefit programs have the potential to help stabilize families when their income drops and can provide support as parents enter or reenter the workforce. As a family’s earnings rise, though, those earnings increases are often offset by declines in public assistance benefits (commonly called
