The Tax Policy Center offers a broad range of explanatory and analytical publications, distributional and revenue estimates, and background information on the nation’s most pressing tax issues.
General Resources
- Guide to TPC Tables
Helpful links to find tables relating to a variety of topics. - TPC Calculators
TPC’s calculators let you see how current tax policy affects real families and how various policy changes would affect the taxes we pay. - State and Local Finances Data Query System
Create your own tables with our state and local finance data query system (SLF-DQS) and find information on revenue collections and spending of state and local governments - Tax Encyclopedia Index
Links to select entries on key tax concepts from the NTA Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy | |
Resources on the Tax Policy Center's Microsimulation Model
The following pages provide material that may aid in the interpretation and understanding of Tax Policy Center estimates.
| - Explanation of baselines
Detailed definitions of TPC's current law and current policy baselines. - Income breaks for distribution tables
Income levels that define different percentile ranges of the income distribution for all years covered by the tables, with ranges provided for three income measures: cash income, economic income, and adjusted gross income (AGI). - Interpreting dividend relief estimates
The Tax Policy Center's method for calculating estimates of the tax relief afforded by the 2003 tax cuts and recommendations for how those estimates should be interpreted. - FAQ
Answers to common questions about the Tax Policy Center's tax simulation model, the estimates it generates, and the organization of tables in the Center's database. |
Tax Topics
| - Homeownership
Homeowners benefit from deductions for mortgage interest and property taxes to temporary tax credits for homebuyers - Marriage Penalties
How and why marriage penalties occur and attempts at marriage penalty relief - Payroll Taxes
An overview of payroll taxes with links to additional statistics and publications - Retirement Saving
How and where workers save for retirement - Tax Expenditures
TPC resources discussing tax expenditures - Who Doesn't Pay Federal Tax?
Which tax units don't pay income and payroll taxes. - Value-Added Tax (VAT)
A tax on the sales of goods and services to consumers. - Working Families
Papers examining various federal tax policies to help working families - Fiscal Cliff
TPC's analysis of tax increases scheduled for 2013, including effects on revenue, distribution, and marginal tax rates. |
Legislation and Tax Reform Proposals
Presidential Elections and Transitions
Federal Budgets
- Federal Budget
Descriptive information about the current budget situation, historical statistics, and examination of long-run budgetary issues | |