Tennessee Governor Seeks To Make One Of The Nation’s Best Tax Climates Even More Hospitable

Tennessee State Capitol getty Lawmakers and governors in nearly half of the states have cut income tax rates over the past two years and more are now following suit. Before the second month of 2023 ca...

Rate-Cutting, Flattening Tax Reform Rolls On In Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas And Beyond

Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. getty Legislators in eight blue states kicked off the year introducing a coordinated package of tax hikes targeting upper income households. While that effort attracted co...

2023 Poised To Be A Third Straight Year Filled With State Tax Relief

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Fair Tax Combines Flawed Policy With Terrible Politics

The United States Capitol building getty Congressional Republicans shouldn’t surprised they’re under attack now that the Fair Tax, a proposal to replace the federal income tax with a 30% national sale...

House Republicans have voted to cut IRS funding

New U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks with reporters in Washington, Jan. 7, 2023. Jon Cherry | Reuters House Republicans on Monday night voted to slash funding for the IRS, fo...

U.S. Businesses Face Higher Federal Tax Bills In 2023 Coupled With State Tax Relief

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What the pro-business tax agenda is chasing in a changing Congress 

Sunrise hits the U.S. Capitol dome on September 30, 2021 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images Main Street could find itself stuck in gridlock next year in terms of ad...

Residents Of These Five States Are Weeks Away From Getting An Income Tax Cut

Income tax cuts take effect in five states in the first month of 2023. Getty Millions of Americans will see their state government take a smaller bite out of paychecks when 2023 begins in a few weeks....

What 5 key personal finance issues mean for you

As Americans head to the polls, several key personal finance issues are weighing on voters’ minds and wallets. This week, the Federal Reserve enacted its fourth consecutive 0.75 percentage point...

Swing District Democrat Attempts To Claim Moderate Mantle, Is Undermined By Voting Record

North Carolina State Sen. Wiley Nickel (D), the Democratic nominee for the 13th congressional … [+] district of North Carolina (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) Getty Images “In this race, I&...

Purple State Governor & 2024 Presidential Prospect Proves He’s No Moderate

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More States To Join The Flat Tax Club

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Tight Race For GOP Gubernatorial Nomination In Wisconsin, Which Is Once Again A Battleground State In 2022

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Amid Highest Inflation In Four Decades, State Lawmakers Seek To Alleviate Harm

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South Carolina Lawmakers Reach Deal To Cut Income Tax For Millions Of People & Thousands Of Small Businesses

The South Carolina State House getty Governors and lawmakers in 14 states enacted income tax relief last year and eight states have already approved income tax cuts so far this year. South Carolina is...

How The Flat Tax Revolution Of 2022 Was Sparked In North Carolina

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How companies like Amazon, Nike and FedEx avoid paying federal taxes

The current United States tax code allows some of the biggest company names in the country to not pay any federal corporate income tax. In fact, at least 55 of the largest corporations in America paid...

There’s a growing interest in wealth taxes on the super-rich

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during a Senate Finance Committee nomination hearing on Feb. 23, 2021. Greg Nash | Pool | Reuters Americans increasingly favor a wealth tax on the ultra-rich. But despit...

States Continue To Take Steps Toward Income Tax Elimination

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Meet Erin Collins, National Taxpayer Advocate for the IRS

Erin M. Collins Source: Erin M. Collins If you’re one of the millions of Americans grappling with IRS issues, you may not realize there’s another option for your unresolved problems. The T...

More States Join Income Tax Cut Movement

The South Carolina State House getty Income tax cutting bills continue to sweep through state legislatures in 2022. What’s noteworthy is that they’re doing so in many cases with broad support from bot...

Cash-rich states are slashing taxes amid revenue windfalls

Anchiy | E+ | Getty Images And this year, at least a dozen states have made cuts or are eyeing reductions, including both temporary and permanent measures, according to the Tax Foundation.   While the...

What to know before filing business taxes for the first time

In 2021, amid the ongoing pandemic and “Great Resignation,” Americans filed a record 5.4 million applications for new businesses, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That means ...