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      <title>What Pennsylvania’s Digital Ad Tax Proposal Would Actually Do</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicole Fox]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 26, 2026 17:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Digital Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Tax Trends]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania lawmakers are looking to impose the Commonwealth’s existing telecom gross receipts tax (GRT) on companies providing digital advertising services in Pennsylvania.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Three Questions to Ask About New Tax Transparency Regimes</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/blog/company-tax-disclosures-tax-transparency-requirements/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Bunn]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 25, 2026 16:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[100 Percent Bonus Depreciation (Full Expensing)]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[The new data disclosures will draw significant attention in 2026 and beyond. However, because the data is rooted in financial accounting concepts, affected by timing issues, and shaped by inconsistent reporting regimes, it is poorly suited for drawing strong conclusions about tax policy or corporate behavior.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Back to School: Bringing Tax Literacy to the Classroom</title>
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      <pubDate>June 24, 2026 17:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Join Tax Foundation's TaxEDU for a webinar on why tax literacy matters and how to build it—in your classroom, your home, or your own understanding—ahead of the new school year. You'll leave with practical ways to connect current tax policy to the classroom and ready-to-use approaches for making the subject click.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Uncapping the Payroll Tax Would Be the Largest Tax Increase in Decades—and Still Wouldn’t Save Social Security</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Durante]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 24, 2026 16:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[It is good to see senators talking about the Social Security crisis that is rapidly unfolding. But any serious proposal has to grapple with the trade-offs of different reforms and accept that the fix will come from both sides of the ledger: taxes and expenditures. ]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>America’s 250th: The Evolution of Excise Taxes</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/blog/america-250-excise-tax-history/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zoe Callaway, Jacob Macumber-Rosin]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 24, 2026 14:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[The Short Form]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[British taxation on the American colonies was a major catalyst for the American Revolution, but most of the tax revolts leading up to the war were in response to one tax type: excise taxes.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Failing to Renew the USMCA Would Increase Tariff Uncertainty and Harm Americans</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/blog/usmca-tariff-trade-agreement/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Durante, Guy Cardwell]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 23, 2026 20:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[With nearly 2 million US jobs tied to trade with Canada and Mexico, stalling renewal — or withdrawing outright — would compound tariff uncertainty at exactly the wrong time.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Testimony: Are Digital Services Taxes a Viable Solution for the EU Budget?</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/testimony/digital-taxes-eu-budget/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristina Enache]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 23, 2026 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Digital Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Tax Proposals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Tax Deal]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[Digital services taxes address a real concern—the need to adapt taxation to the digital economy—but they are not the right solution. They raise limited revenue, are often passed on to consumers rather than large digital firms, create economic distortions, increase complexity and compliance costs, negatively impact innovation and competitiveness, and risk international retaliation.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Wine Taxes by State, 2026</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/wine-taxes-by-state/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Macumber-Rosin, Adam Hoffer]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 22, 2026 21:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Wine Taxes]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[Whether a sommelier or a casual enjoyer, wine drinkers may not be aware of just how much they are paying in taxes to uncork their drink of choice.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Are Digital Services Taxes a Viable Solution for the EU Budget?</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/eu/digital-services-taxes-eu-budget/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristina Enache]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 18, 2026 08:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Digital Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Tax Proposals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Tax Deal]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[Since digital services taxes generate little revenue, place the cost on European consumers and not on large digital companies as intended, and risk escalating trade disputes, policymakers should rethink their strategy.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Floridians Should Think Twice Before Embracing Property Tax Elimination</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/oped/florida-property-tax-elimination/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicole Fox]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 17, 2026 15:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[Voters beware: lower property taxes may sound good, but they come with significant trade-offs.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>US Has Most Progressive Tax System in OECD, New Index Shows</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/blog/us-most-progressive-tax-code-oecd/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Kraschel]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 16, 2026 22:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[OECD]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[A study from the Fraser Institute finds the US tax code is highly progressive relative to other OECD countries.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>VAT Exemption Thresholds in Europe, 2026</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Mengden, Julius Graack]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 15, 2026 21:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Worldwide, 175 countries—including all major European countries—levy a value-added tax (VAT) on goods and services. However, to reduce compliance and administrative costs, most countries have VAT exemption thresholds: if a business is below a certain annual revenue threshold, it is not required to participate in the VAT system.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>What Europe&#8217;s UN Tax Turn Means for Multinationals</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/oped/un-digital-tax-europe/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Cole]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 15, 2026 14:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Double taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Tax Proposals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[OECD]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[Europe’s turn toward the UN is ultimately not a sign that governments are ready to resolve fundamental disputes over taxing rights. If anything, international cooperation on the goal that matters most—fair treatment of cross-border trade—is crumbling. ]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Reform UK Proposal to Exempt Overtime from Income Tax Sounds Appealing but Is Highly Flawed</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/blog/reform-uk-income-tax-overtime-exemption/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristina Enache]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 11, 2026 15:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Tax Burden]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Reform UK proposal to exempt overtime pay from income tax—framed as a “hard work bonus”—may be politically appealing, but it’s a flawed idea that undermines economic fairness, distorts labor markets, and jeopardizes tax revenues.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Beer Taxes by State, 2026</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/beer-taxes-by-state/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Macumber-Rosin, Adam Hoffer]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 8, 2026 09:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Beer Taxes]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the United States, taxes are the single most expensive ingredient in beer. The tax burden accounts for more of the final price of beer than labor and materials combined—the many different layers of applicable taxes combining to total as much as 40.8 percent of the retail price.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Will the AI Apocalypse Come for the Tax Code?</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/oped/ai-economy-tax-code/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Bunn, Alex Muresianu]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 5, 2026 15:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence (AI)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Digital Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget and Spending]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[AI may be a transformative technology, but that is not a good justification for throwing core principles of tax policy out the window.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Illinois’ New Social Media Tax Is a Shambles</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/blog/illinois-social-media-tax/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared Walczak]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 4, 2026 18:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Digital Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State and Local Budgets and Spending]]></category>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">https://taxfoundation.org/?p=198077</guid>

            <description><![CDATA[Illinois plans to impose a complicated, legally fraught new social media tax based on a few pages of confused, contradictory, and almost laughably incomplete legislative text embedded in the new budget.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>The Real November Ballot Question: What Price Are Floridians Willing to Pay to “Save Their Homes?”</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/blog/florida-property-tax-proposal/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicole Fox, Katherine Loughead]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 3, 2026 20:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State and Local Budgets and Spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State and Local Tax Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Tax Trends]]></category>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">https://taxfoundation.org/?p=198018</guid>

            <description><![CDATA[While a proposal to phase down property taxes on the primary residences of Florida homeowners may grab headlines, it risks severely undermining the competitiveness of Florida’s overall tax structure and leaving the state worse off.]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>In Conversation with Chilean Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz: Reforming the Tax Code for Growth and Competitiveness</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/event/chile-tax-reform-growth-competitiveness/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 3, 2026 19:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
      		<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
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            <description><![CDATA[Join Tax Foundation’s Vice President of Global Tax Policy, Sean Bray, as he sits down with Chilean Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz for a candid conversation about what a recent tax reform plan aims to accomplish, why it matters, and what it means for Chile's place in the global economy. ]]></description>
      
      
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      <title>Tax Prom 2026</title>
      <link>https://taxfoundation.org/event/tax-prom-2026/</link>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator>
      <pubDate>June 3, 2026 13:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">https://taxfoundation.org/?post_type=event&#038;p=198031</guid>

            <description><![CDATA[For nearly 90 years, Tax Prom has been the must-attend event for the tax world’s best, brightest, and most influential. Join us on Thursday, November 19, in Washington, DC, and find out why Tax Prom is the tax policy community’s gala of the year.  ]]></description>
      
      
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