The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center invite you to attend the only annual conference ...

Federal excise tax revenues—collected mostly from sales of motor fuel, airline tickets, tobacco, alcohol, and health-related goods and services—totaled nearly $90 billion in 2022, or 1.8 percent of ...

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 ...

Although it is generally blind with respect to race, the tax code can create racial disparities when factors that affect tax liability are correlated with race. In this working paper, we provide new ...

A tariff is a tax on imported goods. Despite what the President says, it is almost always paid directly by the importer (usually a domestic firm), and never by the exporting country. Thus, if the US ...

The temporary expansion of the child tax credit (CTC) in the American Rescue Plan delivered monthly payments to most families with children from July through December 2021. We use data from the Urban ...

The declining values of office buildings across the country in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic could significantly change how major cities and other localities raise revenue and provide public ...

The 2008 and 2009 tax acts provided large temporary tax cuts to most households, with the goal of helping the economy recover from the Great Recession. The 2010 tax act extended specific provisions of ...

Nothing is sure in life but death, taxes, and fighting over the IRS budget. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) boosted the IRS’s funding by nearly $80 billion over a decade, but Congress quickly, ...

Each year, the Internal Revenue Services receives over 3 billion information returns, such as W-2s and 1099-INTs, from employers, banks, and other entities. The IRS also collects some data about ...

Fines and fees can impose heavy burdens on those who come into contact with the criminal legal system. Using nationally representative data from the Urban Institute’s 2023 Well-Being and Basic Needs ...