Parents, educators, and students know that the tax code and public education are deeply linked. Trillions of dollars are at stake as most of the 2017 Trump Tax Scam is set to expire at the end of 2025. When Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans enacted nearly $2 trillion of tax cuts mostly for the wealthy […]
The Big Tax Debate of 2025 When President Trump and his fellow Republicans in Congress pushed through their tax law in 2017 – with zero Democratic support – they made parts of it temporary to disguise its true cost. Those temporary provisions expire at the end of this year. Permanently extending them all would add […]
Low-income families are understandably focused on the immediate necessities: raising kids, caring for family members, trying to put food on the table. Tax policy may seem removed from the stresses of daily life. But the fairness of our tax system, or the lack of it, has a big impact on all of us. Whether there […]
American families already know that the tax code and the state of our nation’s healthcare and social services are deeply linked. We are in a massive fight over taxes because most of a 2017 tax law enacted by Donald Trump and a Republican Congress is set to expire at the end of 2025. If we […]
May 12, 2025
ATF Letter Opposing TCJA 2.0
Dear Chair Smith, Ranking Member Neal, and Members of the House Ways & Means Committee: On behalf of Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and its coalition of 420+ endorsing organizations, we write to strongly oppose House Ways & Means legislative proposals with respect to the reconciliation instructions in H. Con. Res. 14. The Committee’s […]
May 12, 2025
Ways & Means Mark-Up Trump Tax Law 2.0 Analysis
The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee has released its plan for extending expiring provisions of the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law along with other tax changes. Analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation of the portion of the plan made available last week found those parts alone would add $5 trillion to the national […]
President Trump has proposed eliminating federal taxes on Social Security benefits, tips, and overtime pay. These proposals would gamble with seniors’ and working people’s futures while failing to deliver a meaningful impact as companies continue artificially hiking prices on consumers. These proposals, combined with others put forth by President Trump, are a reckless and wasteful […]
Top Health Bosses Using Their Firms to Try to Extend Cuts, Save Millions More A single expiring Trump tax-law cut may have saved the 20 highest-paid healthcare CEOs a total of up to $14 million on their personal taxes over the first six years of the law, a new Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) analysis […]
U.S. Billionaires Are Worth $3.6 Trillion More Since Trump Tax Law GOP Wants to Extend This Tax Day, as last-minute filers send their returns to an Internal Revenue Services (IRS) facing the loss of half its workforce–slowing refunds, impairing customer service and enabling tax evasion by the top 1%–the wealthiest Americans are just getting richer. […]
Trump Forces IRS to Share Immigration Data with DHS to Advance Mass Deportations Today, undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families face an increasingly difficult situation as tax day approaches. Last week, the Trump administration announced an unprecedented agreement between the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security that allows department officials to access sensitive […]