The United States (US) has a very intricately detailed tax system, that involves collecting from many, by many different methods, in order to pay different levels of government. Continue and you will be learning about how tax credits in the United States work.
Taxes are not voluntary, and are either direct or indirect. One definition is that they are burdens laid upon individuals or property owners to support the government.
The Internal Revenue Code, or Federal Tax Code is regulated by the IRS. The IRS is regulated by and is a part of the Treasury Department.
The laws first purpose is to bring in money to support the government. Then it attempts to achieve other goals of a social, economical, and political nature. The best illustration to use is the homeowners tax credit. You do not receive a credit if you rent a home or rent an apartment. This encourages everyone to buy homes and stimulate the economy.
Payroll taxes are collected from employees checks by their employers and paid into the government. Self employed people are responsible for their own deductions and payment of them. What you have withheld is basically up to you within a certain range, however, you do not want to owe too much at the end of the year, or pay any penalties. Certain individuals decide to withhold a little, and others prefer to get a large refund. The majority of people will fall in the middle. Federal income tax is a progressive tax, the more you make, the more tax you pay. In this way, it has reduced tax on lower incomes and placed it on higher ones.
The US has a poverty reducing program known as the EITC. It was created to improve life for low income workers and shift the load of US payroll taxes to higher income workers. Economists have a technical formula for its success, but basically they state that for every dollar a low income family gets, it multiplies between as much as two times its original figure in the towns and cities where they live. The credit began in 1975, and continued to be extended in legislation.
Often we may feel we have too much taxation with too much representation, but it appears they have our best interest at heart. There are other countries with programs similar to the EITC. Now you have an explanation on how tax credits in the United States work.
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