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The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and its effects on corporate tax rates, investment, and profits.
The federal estate and gift tax exemption for deaths and gifts in 2025 is $13.99 million per individual ($27.98 million for married couples using portability), meaning estates below those amounts are ...
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) produced outsized, measurable benefits for high‑income households and the very wealthiest estates while reducing federal revenues and worsening deficit projection...
Direct answer: Donald Trump’s policies have produced measurable economic gains for some indicators—stock-market highs, corporate profit gains and short-term boosts from tax cuts and deregulation—while...
After the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) corporate effective tax rates fell sharply and many firms reported sharply higher after‑tax profits, while investment rose but in uneven, smaller‑than‑promi...
During Donald Trump’s first term, headline indicators showed mixed results: unemployment fell to half-century lows before the COVID-19 collapse and the stock market reached record highs, while GDP gro...
Independent economists broadly agree that the 2017 tax cuts and deregulatory push produced short-run boosts to business confidence, investment, and hiring, but they disagree sharply about the lasting ...
Four pieces of legislation repeatedly described as “landmark” in contemporary reporting were signed into law during President Trump’s terms: the First Step Act (criminal justice reform), the Great Ame...
From 2010 to the mid-2020s the picture of who pays what in U.S. taxation has two clear threads: federal income and payroll tax liabilities fell for many households on average after major tax cuts, whi...
The One Big Beautiful Bill preserved and expanded elements of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — raising the standard deduction and extending lower tax brackets while adding some family-oriented credits...
Two competing bookkeeping stories exist about the roughly $7.8 trillion rise in U.S. deficits over the relevant span: one that isolates pandemic emergency laws and counts roughly $3.6–$3.9 trillion of...