Taxes

Start a side gig in 2022? Whether you lost your traditional job or you simply wanted to earn some extra cash, side gigs tend to complicate your tax filing a bit. Over the years, the IRS refined its rules for gig workers. But obviously, the IRS still wants you to pay taxes on any income,
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Americans were on the move in 2022 and chose low-tax states over high-tax ones. That’s the finding of recent U.S. Census Bureau population data and commercial datasets released this week by U-Haul and United Van Lines. The U.S. population grew 0.4 percent between July 2021 and July 2022, an increase from the previous year’s historically low rate of 0.1 percent. While
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Updated for tax year 2022. Campaign contributions total hundreds of millions of dollars, and they continue to rise. With this level of fundraising, one question is sure to come to mind: Are political contributions tax deductible? The short answer? No. Most political contributions, whether local, regional, or national, are not tax-deductible and haven’t been for years.
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Updated for tax year 2022. No matter what self-employment looks like for you, you’re responsible for ensuring the taxes on your net earnings are paid to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). And the self-employment tax (SE tax) is part of that. Officially known as the Self-Employment Contributions Act tax, the SE tax is the self-employed community’s version of
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Key Findings Cost recovery refers to how businesses deduct their investments over time. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 reintroduced 100 percent bonus depreciation for short-lived investments, such as machinery and equipment, allowing full cost recovery for qualifying investments. Bonus depreciation will begin phasing down at the beginning of 2023. In 2018, the
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Since 2018, the tax world has seen multiple rounds of proposals to change how digital companies are taxed. The most common, the Digital Services Tax (DST), popped up as a European Commission directive and then made its way into the national laws of multiple countries across the globe. Ongoing international tax negotiations were partially motivated
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It’s Christmas time, and for millions of families around the country, that means revisiting some classic holiday movies. For some, that includes It’s a Wonderful Life and Home Alone. For others, that includes Die Hard. In this analyst’s view, Die Hard is a Christmas movie, though this is not an institutional position of Tax Foundation.
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Most state tax changes take effect at the beginning of the calendar year (January 1) or at the beginning of the fiscal year (July 1 for most states). On January 1, 2023, thirty-eight states have noteworthy tax changes taking effect. Most of these changes represent net tax reductions, the result of an unprecedented wave of
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Underlying every fiscal policy discussion in Washington is the question of progressivity: how much should tax and spending policy redistribute from high-income households to low-income households? This debate is often more rhetorical than substantive, but a recent study by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) fills this void by presenting data showing that the current fiscal
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