Taxation of Social Security Benefits
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2024-12-17 — Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act: Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act (House, introduced; referred to subcommittee) would fully exclude Social Security and tier I railroad retirement benefits from gross income, replace lost OASDI/RRB trust-fund transfers with general appropriations, and include a sense of Congress that taxes should not be raised to offset the cost — benefiting current recipients who owe tax on benefits while shifting the fiscal burden to general revenues. (novelty: 3)