On April 15, Tax Day, Governor Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) signed House Bill 111, legislation lowering Georgia’s flat income tax from 5.49% to 4.99%. This new income tax cut, the latest in a series of rate ...

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick recently announced on CBS News that the Trump administration wants to eliminate income taxes for those making $150,000 a year or less. Were that to happen, only ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of state & federal policy and politics. The South Carolina Senate approved a new state budget proposal ...

The Dec. 31, 2025, expiration of many provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) adds a new task to the 2025 congressional to-do list: updating the tax code. Many TCJA provisions provided ...

As of January 1, 2025, 10 states changed their income tax codes. Nine of those states reduced their tax rates, and one no ...

The U.S. tax code has become increasingly complex, leading many to rely on software for filing. The author suggests a simpler system: a flat 10% tax on all income, similar to the biblical tithe.

The first bill up at Wednesday morning’s jam-packed final meeting of the year for the S.C. House Ways and Means Committee was the tax conformity bill, which Rep. Brandon Newton told his colleagues the ...