Chapter 16: Government Taxation and Expenditure

Data on government budget and tax trends can be found at government sites. For example, overall trends are presented by the Bureau of Economic Analysis at www.bea.doc.gov. Budget information for the federal government comes from the Office of Management and Budget at www.whitehouse.gov/omb.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a lively site with a plethora of tax statistics available at www.irs.gov and www.irs.gov/taxstats/index.html.

Two organization which study taxation and have good websites are the National Tax Association at www.ntanet.org and the Brookings Institution at www.brookings.org. Policy papers by a British research institute that focuses on social security and taxation can be found at www.ifs.org.uk.