Your effective tax rate is a good indicator of how well you’ve been managing your tax situation. It’s smart to calculate your effective tax rate each year to help you make adjustments to your ...

A new analysis from Yale's Budget Lab shows that the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump in 2025 act as a ...

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Total effective tax rates for the 400 wealthiest Americans have declined sharply in recent years, and they now pay a smaller percentage of their true income in taxes than the average American, ...

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 ...

We have all heard the refrains that property taxes are regressive, too large, outrageous, unsustainable. On it goes. Unfortunately, when we have these discussions, context is very important and often ...

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced Section 199A. This provision, scheduled to expire next year, provides owners of “pass-through” businesses a 20 percent deduction for qualified business ...

Drugmakers make big profits in the U.S. But many pay taxes far below the 21% corporate tax rate. Pfizer's effective tax rate is so low it's getting a big refund despite booking $59 billion in revenue.

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The effective tax rate for the wealthiest 0.0002 percent of Americans — a group that corresponds roughly to the billionaires on the famous Forbes 400 list — fell from 30 percent to 24 percent after ...