The fate of a government agency’s funding is always precarious—and especially so for the Internal Revenue Service, one of the most unpopular federal agencies ...

The bipartisan “no taxes on tips” proposal is the most prominent example of a politically attractive soundbite bumping aside sound policy.

Campaigns and political party platforms provide limited policy details. That’s by design: especially in a campaign, politicians tend to accentuate what they will do ...

Donald Trump would exempt overtime pay from tax. Kamala Harris and Trump both agree that tips should be exempt. There are lots of tax exclusions in the tax code, but this form of tax subsidy is ...

Negotiations are underway to fund the government after Oct. 1.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 enacted an $80 billion 10-year investment in the Internal Revenue Service on top of the agency’s regular annual appropriations. Although Congress cut the IRA ...

Trillions of dollars of unrealized capital gains permanently escape taxation, disproportionately benefitting the richest ...

Only a handful of all employees and fewer than 60 percent of tipped workers would benefit from proposals to exempt gratuities ...

Table shows the change in the distribution of federal taxes, by expanded cash income level in 2025, of an option to exclude ...

Spending bill fails in the House. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) brought a short-term spending bill to the floor yesterday, but it failed to secure the votes needed for passage. Funding for the federal ...

One of the most common tax complaints I hear from small business owners is about filing their taxes. Paying isn’t their ...

Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are promoting a troubling idea: Hyper-targeting tax subsidies to narrowly favored ...