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Tax Foundation’s TaxEDU was launched to address the growing lack of tax literacy in our classrooms, living rooms, and government chambers. TaxEDU combines the best aspects of cutting-edge and traditional educational platforms to elevate the debate, enable deeper understanding, and achieve better, more principled tax policy.

TaxEDU is a one-stop platform that gives teachers the tools to make students better citizens, taxpayers a vocabulary to see through the rhetoric, lawmakers crash courses to write smarter laws, and videos and podcasts for anyone who wants to boost their tax knowledge on the go. Explore the resources below to get started.

Tax Policy 101

Classroom Resources to Raise Tax Literacy

Tax Basics

Understand the Terms of the Debate and the Principles of Sound Tax Policy

Legislative Courses

Educational Crash Courses for Tomorrow's Leaders

The Deduction Podcast

Your Independent Guide to The Complicated World of Tax and Economics

Featured Videos

How Do Tax Brackets Work?

Understanding how tax brackets work can inform decisions about performing extra work through a second job or overtime, or pursuing new streams of income.

Tariffs Are Taxes Too

Even though tariffs are invisible, their effects clearly are not. They might be sold as a tool to strengthen the economy, but tariffs are just taxes that make everyone worse off.

A Carbon Tax, Explained

Every policy has trade-offs, but a well-designed carbon tax has the potential to protect the environment without harming consumers, jobs, or businesses.

Green Rush: Principles for Taxing Cannabis

Taxing cannabis is brand-new territory. While many states see recreational cannabis as a potential gold mine for tax revenue, the reality of designing a new tax is more complicated.

Who Bears the Burden of the Corporate Income Tax?

Raising the corporate income tax is often promoted as a way to generate revenue for helpful government services. Unfortunately, higher corporate taxes typically hurt the very people they’re supposed to help through lost wages and fewer opportunities.

The Three Basic Tax Types

The better you understand taxes, the better equipped you are to make decisions about them. All taxes can be divided into three basic types: taxes on what you buy, taxes on what you earn, and taxes on what you own.

Going Beyond the Headlines: Understanding Corporate Taxes

Every so often, you will see headlines highlighting large companies that pay little or no corporate income tax. While these stories may seem shocking, the reality is much more mundane.

GILTI: Foreign Tax, Local Impact

GILTI is broken. It doesn’t just tax IP, and it doesn’t just tax businesses that are looking to shift their profits into low-tax countries. GILTI unintentionally places a surtax on many U.S. companies that want to reach customers overseas.

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TaxEDU was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Stiles-Nicholson Foundation.