In New York City, we can point to the boldface success of Zohran Mamdani as an example. Recently nominated as the Democratic mayoral candidate, his affordability push focuses on creating better ...

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.

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 ...

Excise taxes are sales taxes that apply to specific goods (such as gasoline, tobacco, or alcohol) or services (such as hotel and car rentals). Sometimes it’s appropriate to ask consumers of a ...

A major concern of state policymakers is how to lure jobs to their state and improve the prosperity of residents. Too often, policymakers assume that tax cuts make the best bait. It’s not hard to ...

State and local sales taxes are typically conceived as broad-based consumption taxes – that is, taxes on most things consumers buy. In practice, many purchases are exempt from sales taxes.

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 ...