Tax Day 2023: Where Your 2022 Tax Dollars Went
IPS’s National Priorities Project takes a look at where American taxpayers’ money went in 2022, and how skewed our national priorities are.
Tax Day 2022: We Got The Receipts
How does our government actually spend our tax dollars? NPP has the receipts.
About That $900 You Gave Pentagon Contractors
This tax season, I’d rather fund green jobs and disease control than jets that spontaneously combust. Wouldn’t you?
Seven Surprising Tax Facts for 2019
Tax Day is April 15, 2019. Americans will file their tax returns for all income received in 2018. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and who pays what?
Tax Day 2019: Where Your Personal Income Taxes Were Spent in 2018
How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide
Five Tax Myths Debunked
It’s easy to get lost in the noise from pundits and politicians who thrive on the tax code’s complexity.
How Corporations Cheat Veterans Out of Tax Dollars
This year, average taxpayers paid twice as much to corporate military contractors than to caring for all veterans combined.
Five Taxpayer-Supported Corporations that Paid Their CEOs More than Uncle Sam
Five firms that are double dipping—taking government contracts and bailouts, while leaving ordinary families to pick up the tab.
Four Common Tax Confusions
Quick comebacks to the regressive tax rhetoric you hear on the radio and around the dinner table.
TurboTax is Lobbying to Make Filing Your Taxes More Difficult
A call to boycott the tax preparation companies spending millions making sure the tax code is overly complex.
Transplanting Taxes from Corporations to the Rest of Us
American taxpayers are increasingly picking up the tab for unpaid corporate taxes.
A Better Way to Balance the Budget
Corporations benefit from tax breaks and loopholes, while armies get fortunes from governments. Without sacrificing social programs, there are better ways to balance the budget.
The Lineup: Week of April 4-10, 2011
This week, we’ve got three Tax Day op-eds and a cartoon by Khalil Bendib lampooning GOP budget priorities.