Resources
Data, method and further reading
Reference material behind the tools, and the organisations to read for tax policy.
IRS data dashboard
What 160 million returns look like: IRS Statistics of Income for tax year 2023, from income down to tax.
Open the dashboard →Methodology
How every model is sourced, what it simplifies, and how it is checked before publication.
Read the method →Tools
The public models, each with its assumptions and sources on the page.
Browse the tools →Tax policy
TaxVisual focuses on how the rules apply to individual and business cases, not on policy analysis. For policy, these are the organisations we read:
- Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center — analysis and distributional estimates of federal tax policy
- Tax Foundation — federal and state tax data, rates and maps
- PolicyEngine — open-source tax and benefit microsimulation
- Penn Wharton Budget Model — budget and economic effects of policy proposals
- Congressional Budget Office — official budget and revenue projections
- IRS Statistics of Income — the source data behind our dashboard