In a punishing tax season plagued by technical glitches and constantly changing regulations, millions of Americans are still facing unresolved delays as they wait for their much-needed refund checks.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remember what it felt like when your teacher marked something as “incorrect” on your homework, but then the correction itself turned out to be incorrect? Well, millions of American taxpayers may feel ...

Iowans and the future of our state just took a licking. We might not see it fully for a couple of years, but that’s the impact of massive tax cuts that will whack 40 percent off the income tax, the ...

"It's a misconception that tax exempt bonds, protects the wealthy," said Vikram Rai lead strategist at the municipal division at Wells Fargo. "About 75% are held by retail, meaning moms and pops. If ...

Supporters of George W. Bush have spent a good part of this week throwing rotten tomatoes at Teresa Heinz Kerry. Or, more precisely, at her 2003 tax return, which the Kerry campaign released late last ...

This last weekend, Paul Ryan repeatedly dodged questions about the mathematical impossibility of the tax plan he and Mitt Romney are running on, and then, having burned through seven repeated ...

OK, it's easy to moan and groan over your tax form, but believe me, it could be worse. Jacob Goldstein of our Planet Money podcast introduces us to one of the unsung people who spend their ...

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 ...

Gaffe-prone Joe Biden put his foot in his mouth again yesterday, mistakenly excluding millions of Americans from his running mate’s tax-cut proposal. The Delaware senator’s latest blunder came while ...