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Tax expenditures (individual)

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Individual Taxes

IRA Deductions

Number of returns with IRA deductions and dollar amount of total and average deductions from 1980 to 2019.

Individual Taxes

Medical Deductions

Number of returns claiming medical deductions and dollar amount of total and average deductions from tax years 1980 to 2019.

Individual Taxes

Elderly and Disabled Credits

Number of families and dollar amount of total and average credits from 1976 to 2019.

Individual Taxes

Items with the Largest Tax Effect on High-Income Returns

Number and percentage of returns classified by item with the largest and second-largest tax effect for taxable and nontaxable returns with incomes $200,000 or more.

Individual Taxes

Charitable Deduction by State

Individual Taxes

State and Local Sales Tax Deduction By State and AGI

Individual Taxes

State and Local Sales Tax Deduction By State

Individual Taxes

State and Local Real Estate Tax Deduction By State and AGI

Individual Taxes

State and Local Real Estate Tax Deduction By State

Individual Taxes

State and Local Income Tax Deduction by State

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From the Briefing Book

Why are tax expenditures controversial?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

Q.

Why are tax expenditures controversial?

A.

To some, tax expenditures are spending items that do not belong in the tax code. To others, they are merely a way of reducing taxes, and repealing them would amount to a tax increase.

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What are the largest tax expenditures?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

Q.

What are the largest tax expenditures?

A.

Tax expenditures make up a substantial part of the federal budget. Some of them are larger than the entire budgets of the programs or departments that spend money for the same or related purposes. For example, the value of the tax breaks for homeownership, although reduced by the 2017 tax act, still exceeds total spending by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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What are tax expenditures and how are they structured?

February 12, 2016 by tpcwebsite

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What are tax expenditures and how are they structured?

A.

Tax expenditures are special provisions of the tax code such as exclusions, deductions, deferrals, credits, and tax rates that benefit specific activities or groups of taxpayers.

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