Latest Fact-Checks In Taxes

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 14, 2021 a Facebook post
"The top 1% pays 90% of income taxes.”
False
September 14, 2021
Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin
stated on August 10, 2021 radio interviews.
On ending Virginia's income tax.
Half Flip
By Warren Fiske • August 25, 2021
Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson
stated on July 5, 2021 TV interview
"We’ve got 115,000 miles of roads in this state and 90% is owned by the locals.”
True
By D.L. Davis • August 20, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 4, 2021 a viral image
The federal infrastructure bill includes “a pilot program for a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee, which is basically a long-term plan to make it too expensive to drive a car."
Mostly False
August 12, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 20, 2021 a Facebook post
"Income taxes are voluntary."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 2021
X posts
X posts
stated on July 15, 2021 a tweet
“You must give EVERY PENNY” of the advance child tax credit payments back when you file your 2021 taxes.
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • July 21, 2021
Nikki Fried
Nikki Fried
stated on June 9, 2021 an interview with WINK TV
Gov. Ron DeSantis “signed a $1 billion tax increase on the people of our state, on our consumers, yet gave a $500 million tax break to our corporations."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 15, 2021
Don Huffines
Don Huffines
stated on May 10, 2021 campaign material
"Texans have some of the highest property taxes in the nation”
Mostly True
By Brandon Mulder • June 4, 2021
Wisconsin Assembly GOP
Wisconsin Assembly GOP
stated on May 7, 2021 Twitter
“Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee removed more than $8 billion in spending increases from Gov. Evers' budget proposal.”
Mostly True
By Haley BeMiller • May 18, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on May 3, 2021 an Instagram post
“After California taxes, Trey Lance's $34.1M rookie deal becomes just $16M."
Half-True
By Shasha Hupka • May 13, 2021
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on April 14, 2021 Twitter
“Regulating and taxing marijuana—much like we do alcohol—would generate more than $165M in revenue starting in 2022”
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • May 12, 2021
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on May 2, 2021 remarks on ABC's "This Week"
"Joe Biden is proposing that any family who tries to pass a business or a farm down to their son or daughter or grandson or granddaughter are going to pay a huge new tax."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2021
Ben Cline
Ben Cline
stated on April 22, 2021 a floor speech.
The Green New Deal “costs an average American household almost $700,000 through 2029.”
False
By Warren Fiske • May 5, 2021
Van Wanggaard
Van Wanggaard
stated on April 19, 2021 Statement
Foxconn “is the largest taxpayer in Racine County.”
True
By Haley BeMiller • April 27, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 7, 2021 remarks at the White House
“A new, independent study put out last week found that at least 55 of our largest corporations used various loopholes to pay zero federal income tax in 2020.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2021
Nicholas Langworthy
Nicholas Langworthy
stated on March 17, 2021 a mass email
Residents of New York state “pay the highest taxes in the nation.”
Mostly True
By Landon Allison, John Pullano • April 12, 2021
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 4, 2021 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal “is fully paid for. Across 15 years, it would raise all of the revenue needed for these once-in-a-lifetime investments."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 7, 2021
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on April 4, 2021 remarks on "Fox News Sunday"
The proposal by President Joe Biden would put the U.S. “No. 2 in the world” for the highest corporate tax rate.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2021
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on April 4, 2021 remarks on CNN's "State of the Union"
President Joe Biden’s corporate tax rate increase would "put us in line with other industrial nations."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 23, 2021 a Facebook post
Says Ford agreed to invest $900 million at an Ohio plant because Donald Trump “lowered taxes” and is now moving the project to Mexico because Joe Biden is “increasing taxes.”
Mostly False
April 6, 2021
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