What Is the Real Value of $100 in Metropolitan Areas?
The differences in purchasing power can be large and they have significant implications for the relative impact of economic and tax policies across the United States.
The differences in purchasing power can be large and they have significant implications for the relative impact of economic and tax policies across the United States.
As Oktoberfest celebrations kick off around the world, let’s look at how much tax European Union (EU) countries add to the world’s favorite alcoholic beverage.
Any move to repeal the cap or enhance the deduction would disproportionately benefit higher earners, making the tax code more regressive.
Property taxes are the primary tool for financing local governments and generate a significant share of state and local revenues.
In recent years, several countries have taken measures to reduce carbon emissions, including instituting environmental regulations, emissions trading systems, and carbon taxes. In 1990, Finland was the world’s first country to introduce a carbon tax.
If the policy goal of taxing cigarettes is to encourage cessation, vapor taxation must be considered a part of that policy design.
Carryover tax provisions help businesses “smooth” their risk and income, making the tax code more neutral across investments and over time.
In tax year 2020, taxpayers claimed more than 159 million tax credits on their individual income tax returns worth a total of more than $277 billion. That was an increase of $35.3 billion from tax year 2019, largely due to an influx of pandemic relief administered through the tax code in 2020.
California pumps out the highest state gas tax rate of 77.9 cents per gallon (cpg), followed by Illinois (66.5 cpg) and Pennsylvania (62.2 cpg).
The aim of patent boxes is generally to encourage and attract local research and development (R&D) and to incentivize businesses to locate IP in the country. However, patent boxes can introduce another level of complexity to a tax system, and some recent research questions whether patent boxes are actually effective in driving innovation.