The effective tax rate is the average tax rate of a corporation or individual. It is the percentage of taxes owed from the corporation's total revenues or the individual's total income. It relates to ...

Effective and marginal tax rates might not be familiar terms. However, they’re essential concepts to understand because they determine how much income you’ll have to fork over to the government every ...

The Dec. 31, 2025, expiration of many provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) adds a new task to the 2025 congressional to-do list: updating the tax code. Many TCJA provisions provided ...

The total effective tax rate for the 400 wealthiest Americans was lower than the general population, according to a new study. The study, from UC Berkeley economists Akcan Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny ...

The Congressional Budget Office is projecting the federal deficit to hit as much as 7.3% of gross domestic product by 2033. This has prompted a debate over the root cause of the federal government’s ...