Millions of Americans who file their own returns have long learned about tax math mistakes only after the Internal Revenue Service quietly changed their refund or balance due. A new federal law ...

Having unveiled a string of ambitious spending proposals, the Biden administration needs to come up with a way to generate an additional $4 trillion in revenue over the next 10 years. But while it has ...

Seeing as Tuesday night is the deadline for filing tax returns, and seeing as data is FiveThirtyEight’s raison d’être, I was excited to find a set of statistics ...

President Obama recently announced a “deficit reduction plan” that includes both a massive tax increase and a massive increase in federal spending. Insisting that the only way to close the deficit gap ...

Nothing gets lawmakers and pundits more outraged than government’s proverbial waste, fraud, and abuse. Nearly always, these stories involve spending. But taxes are hardly immune. One case of pure ...

In school, I liked math the least and history the most. Both can be useful in the coming debate over President Trump’s proposed tax reforms. The one thing I learned in math class is that if the ...

There's something breathtaking about any Paul Ryan budget. There are the savage cuts to healthcare and safety-net spending for the young and poor. The deep cuts to education, research, and ...