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State Taxes

General Tax Information

Useful IRS sites:

IRS News and Published Guidance
IRS TaxStats
Statistics of Income Bulletin
The SOI Bulletin is issued quarterly and "provides the earliest published annual financial statistics obtained from the various types of tax and information returns filed."
Audit Techniques Guides (ATGs)
IRS Tax Forms and Instructions

Policy Information

Tax Policy Center (Brookings and Urban Institutes)

Databases

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Search within Tax Notes a publication by Tax Analysts. Click on Sources in the left-hand menu and select Find Sources. Search for Tax Notes in the search box. Select the publication from the listing of results. When the publication is selected click on OK-Continue to search within the publication.

Historical Corporate and Personal Income Tax Rates by Country

Tax Foundation provides information on tax policies and tax rates. Data can be downloaded in PDF or as an Excel spreadsheet. Some of the most useful data includes:

Tax Foundation
U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1862-2013
State Individual Income and Payroll Taxes
State Facts & Figures Handbook
KPMG’s Corporate and Indirect Tax Rate Survey 2015 [pdf]
PricewaterhouseCoopers Worldwide Tax Summaries
Note: You will be asked to register for a free account to view this data.

World Bank Open Data This link opens in a new window
Use World Development Indicators from the World Bank
- Select Country
- Select Series. [Search: tax]
- Select Time

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