Excise taxes and sales taxes both generate government revenue, but they work in fundamentally different ways. Sales taxes apply broadly to most retail purchases at a uniform percentage rate, appearing ...
More than 230 years ago, one of the first acts of the First Congress in 1789 included a relatively mundane, but important, tax policy allowing a refund on excise taxes. Unfortunately, this has become ...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Treasury Department have issued final regulations (T.D. 10037) (Final Regulations) under Section 4501 of the Code (the Excise Tax) that withdraw the ...
A proposed section in the U.S. House of Representatives version of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) would impose a 3.5 percent excise tax on a remittance of money. This proposal has wide-ranging ...