Who We Are
The Tax Foundation is the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy 501(c)(3) nonprofit. For over 85 years,our mission has remained the same: to improve lives through tax policies that lead to greater economic growth and opportunity.
Our vision is a world where the tax code doesn’t stand in the way of success. Every day, our team of trusted experts strives towards that vision by remaining principled, insightful, and engaged and by advancing theprinciples of sound tax policy: simplicity, neutrality, transparency, and stability.
What We Do
Research
OurCenter for Federal Tax Policy,Center for State Tax Policy, andCenter for Global Tax Policy each produce timely and high-quality research and analysis that influences the debate toward economically principled tax policies.
Our experts are continuouslyanalyzing the day’s most relevant tax policy topics and are relied upon routinely for presentations, testimony, and media appearances on tax issues spanning every level of government.
Education
Tax Foundation’s TaxEDU was launched to address the growing lack of tax literacy in our classrooms, living rooms, and government chambers. TaxEDU combines the best aspects of cutting-edge and traditional educational platforms to elevate the debate, enable deeper understanding, and achieve better, more principled tax policy.
TaxEDU is a one-stop platform that gives teachers the tools to make students better citizens, taxpayers a vocabulary to see through the rhetoric, lawmakers crash courses to write smarter laws, and videos and podcasts for anyone who wants to boost their tax knowledge on the go. Explore the resources below to get started.
Data
Providing journalists, taxpayers, and policymakers with basic data on taxes and spending has been a cornerstone of the Tax Foundation’s educational mission since its founding.
As we wrote in our first edition ofFacts & Figures in 1941, “Facts give a broader perspective; facts dissipate predilections and prejudices…[and are] an important step to meet the challenge presented by the broad problems of public finance.”
Tax Modeling
The Tax Foundation’s Center for Economic Analysis takes a quantitative approach to analyzing federal tax policies and proposals using our Taxes and Growth (TAG) macroeconomic model.
Since 2015, the TAG model has been used to analyze dozens of legislative and campaign tax proposals, including every major tax plan put forth during the 2016 presidential campaigns, theHouse GOP’s 2016 Tax Reform Blueprint, and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
