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T14-0090 - Repeal the Individual Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), Baseline: Current Law, Distribution of Federal Tax Change by Expanded Cash Income Percentile, 2023

July 29, 2014

Individual Taxes

T13-0211 - AMT Revenue per AMT Taxpayer, 2012-2014, 2023

February 20, 2014

Individual Taxes

T13-0208 - Aggregate AMT Projections and Recent History, 1970-2023

August 25, 2013

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T13-0209 - Aggregate AMT Projections, 2012-2023

August 25, 2013

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T13-0210 - Characteristics of AMT Taxpayers, 2012-2014, 2023

August 25, 2013

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T13-0212 - Average Effective AMT Tax Rate, 2012-2014, 2023

August 25, 2013

Individual Taxes

T13-0213 - Distribution of AMT and Regular Income Tax by Cash Income, Current Law, 2012-2014

August 25, 2013

Individual Taxes

T13-0214 - Income Subject to Tax and Effective Marginal Tax Rates in the Regular Income Tax and the AMT among AMT Taxpayers, Current Law, 2012-2014

August 25, 2013

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T13-0215 - Effect of the AMT on ATRA Individual Income Tax Cuts, 2013

August 25, 2013

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T13-0030 - Average Effective AMT Tax Rate, 2011-2013, 2022

January 16, 2013

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What is the AMT?

December 21, 2015 by kdavis@urban.org

What is the AMT?

The individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) operates alongside the regular income tax. It requires some taxpayers to calculate their liability twice—once under the rules for the regular income tax and once under the AMT rules—and then pay the higher amount. Originally intended to prevent perceived abuses by a handful of the very rich, the AMT affected roughly 5 million filers in 2017. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act dramatically reduced the reach of the AMT, albeit temporarily, so that the tax will hit only 200,000 filers in 2018.

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How much revenue does the AMT raise?

December 21, 2015 by kdavis@urban.org

How much revenue does the AMT raise?

About $5.2 billion in 2018, or 0.4 percent of all individual income tax revenue. That is down significantly from $36.2 billion—2.4 percent of income tax revenue—in 2017, primarily because of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Since most TCJA individual income tax provisions expire at the end of 2025, AMT revenue will soar to $68.9 billion by 2028, or 2.6 percent of all individual income tax revenue.

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Why are taxes so complicated?

December 21, 2015 by kdavis@urban.org

Why are taxes so complicated?

Our tax system could be simple if its only purpose were to raise revenue. But it has other goals, including fairness, efficiency, and enforceability. And Congress has used the tax system to influence social policy as well as to deliver benefits for specific groups and industries.

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