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A growing number of blue cities and states across the country, from Washington state to Rhode Island, are looking at ways to wring more revenue from their richest taxpayers.
The Trump megabill delivers a trillion-dollar windfall to the richest 1% while stripping billions in federal funding from ...
Progressive organizations note that relatively brief exemption periods, usually limited to a week or even just a weekend, deliver extremely modest relief to consumers, often helping poor households ...
The rich will get richer from President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill’s tax provisions – but California’s millionaires won’t get as much of a benefit as their counterparts in most other states.
Mississippi policymakers this year took a big step to worsen the state’s racial income and wealth divides by passing a ...
The removal of the Internal Revenue Service commissioner Billy Long after just two months in the post came after the federal tax collection agency said it could not release some information on ...
Every year, a handful of states offer shoppers a temporary tax break to encourage spending. This year, some of those “sales tax holidays” are happening as President Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to ...
Last week, President Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in apparent retaliation for weak jobs numbers. The move drew sharp criticism for spooking investors and weakening ...
Almost one in five US tax dollars is collected by a local government, and taxes are the primary way local services are financed, although aid from federal and state governments is also a major revenue ...