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Donald Trump repeatedly proposed in 2024 and pressed the idea through 2025 that tariff revenue could be used to eliminate or sharply reduce federal income taxes and that the Internal Revenue Service c...
Congress passed the One, Big, Beautiful Bill (OBBBA) in mid‑2025, which made the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) changes to the standard deduction and many itemized rules permanent and added new carve‑ou...
Fiscal 2025 saw tariff receipts surge to roughly $165–195 billion (Treasury-based and reporting sources vary), more than double FY2024’s ~$77 billion and several times the typical pre-2025 annual coll...
Tariffs are legally paid at the border by importers — that is, the firms that bring goods into the country — but the economic burden is distributed and shifts over time among importers, domestic consu...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says it collected “more than $200 billion” in tariffs this calendar year as of Dec. 15, 2025 . Independent trackers and budget analysts show a range of estimat...
The IRS’s mandatory presidential-audit program largely failed to run on schedule during Trump’s presidency: the agency only began auditing Trump’s 2016 return on April 3, 2019, and reviewers describe ...
U.S. tariff collections surged in 2025 well above recent years: multiple trackers and government statements put fiscal‑year 2025 customs duties between roughly $195 billion and more than $200 billion,...
Undocumented immigrants in the U.S. routinely pay the same categories of taxes as other residents — payroll (Social Security and Medicare), income, sales, property and excise taxes — often by using an...
Available sources do not give a single definitive percentage of “African Americans who pay federal income tax” but they do provide related figures: analyses show that roughly 47% of U.S. filing units ...
The Big Beautiful Bill (One Big Beautiful Bill Act / Public Law No. 119-21) largely preserves the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act framework into 2025, keeping the seven tax rates and elevated standard dedu...
Projections from multiple independent policy shops show that the second Trump administration’s tariff program is expected to raise several trillion dollars in federal receipts over the coming decade o...
Yes — people living and working in the United States without legal authorization do pay substantial federal, state and local taxes, through payroll withholding, income tax filings using Individual Tax...
The premium tax credit (PTC) eligibility in 2025 is determined by household income as a percentage of the federal poverty level (FPL) and by household size; generally that range runs from 100% to 400%...
There is no public reporting in the provided sources that states how much Donald J. Trump personally paid in federal or state income taxes for tax year 2025; the available journalism and policy resear...
Tariff collections under President Trump surged in fiscal 2025 to roughly $195 billion (Treasury totals reported by multiple outlets), and analysts project the new tariff program could raise about $2....
Congress temporarily removed the 400%‑of‑FPL cap for premium tax credit (PTC) eligibility for tax years 2021–2025, so people with incomes above 400% FPL can qualify for 2025 credits if other rules are...
There is no single, definitive count in the provided reporting of how many undocumented immigrants file individual tax returns with ITINs each year; sources instead give related measures: as of Januar...
GDP grew modestly during Trump’s first three years with real GDP peaking at about 3% in 2018 before collapsing in the pandemic year 2020; cumulative real‑GDP performance through 2019 was similar to re...
Customs duties (tariffs) are collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and deposited into the U.S. Treasury; Treasury statements record these receipts under categories tied to the Department of ...
Public data and reporting show that millions of federal tax returns are filed each year using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs), but the exact share that are filed by undocumented imm...