The Poynter Institute Menu Donate State Editions * California * Florida * Iowa * Michigan * New Hampshire * New York * North Carolina * Pennsylvania * Texas * West Virginia * Wisconsin Issues * All Issues * Online hoaxes * Coronavirus * Health Care * Immigration * Extremism * Taxes * Marijuana * Environment * Crime * Guns * Foreign Policy * LGBTQ+ People * Joe Biden * Kamala Harris * Donald Trump * Mitch McConnell * Hakeem Jeffries * Ron DeSantis Media * PunditFact * Tucker Carlson * Sean Hannity * Rachel Maddow * Bloggers * PolitiFact Videos Campaigns * 2024 Elections Truth-o-Meter * True * Mostly True * Half True * Mostly False * False * Pants on Fire Promises * Biden Promise Tracker * Trump-O-Meter * Obameter * Latest Promises About Us * Our Process * Our Staff * En Español * Who pays for PolitiFact? * Advertise with Us * Suggest a Fact-check * Corrections and Updates * Newsletters Donate #### Follow us The Facts Newsletter Sign up English Español ### Get PolitiFact in your inbox. * Weekly Email Newsletter * Daily Email Newsletter Your Email Address Sign Up ![](\\" image-80/0c4f37840a8378d9453cea63daf9200c.jpg\\") ![](\\" image-80/ffc1f7260280583b120e71858ff0578d.jpg\\") Americans for Prosperity stated on July 17, 2023 in a Facebook ad: “The Inflation Reduction Act led to higher taxes.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" mostly-false/6a6ef6075c162fdccf5eb960e683dcd1.jpg.\\") ![\\"barely- true\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") * West Virginia * Taxes * Americans for Prosperity ![\\"\(AP\)\\"](\\" (AP) By Anthony Starkey October 19, 2023 # Fact-checking how much the Inflation Reduction Act affects taxes #### If Your Time is short * Taxes are poised to rise under the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed in August 2022, but the increases target very large corporations and the richest Americans. * These tax increases could be passed along indirectly to taxpayers with more modest incomes. But overall, independent analyses have found that ordinary Americans can expect to see little if any change in what they pay in taxes. See the sources for this fact-check Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is up for reelection in 2024, and if he runs for a new term, he faces a difficult reelection campaign in a state that has turned heavily Republican in recent years. One conservative advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity, took out an ad on Facebook to criticize Manchin for voting to approve the Inflation Reduction Act even though every Republican in Congress voted against the measure. \"The Inflation Reduction Act led to higher taxes,\" the Americans for Prosperity ad said. However, this assertion is exaggerated. As PolitiFact has noted, the Inflation Reduction Act includes a green energy package costing $369 billion over 10 years, including tax credits to boost investment in solar, wind, hydropower and other renewable energy. Such provisions have attracted opposition from oil and natural gas producers, including some in West Virginia, who say it puts their industries at a disadvantage. The Inflation Reduction Act does not raise income taxes for the broad swath of individual taxpayers; its tax increases are targeted at very large companies and wealthy people. One key provision says corporate profits exceeding $1 billion for three consecutive years will face a new minimum 15% tax on corporate \"book income\" — generally, the amount of income that companies report to investors. Although these taxes are poised to hit large corporations and high-income taxpayers directly, \"the costs of higher taxes are also borne by the corporations’ workers, consumers, and the economy as a whole,\" Americans for Prosperity told PolitiFact West Virginia in a statement. Experts also expect there to be a spillover effect on ordinary taxpayers, because corporations tend to pass the cost of their tax increases: to their customers, through higher taxes; to their workers, through lower wages; and to their shareholders, including retirement plans, through lower dividends. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 23, 2024 in a speech in Las Vegas “Kamala cast the tiebreaking vote to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to go after your tip income.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2024 However, analysts say these spillover effects should be small. \"If you are not in the top 1% of taxpayers, you likely won’t notice any effect of the tax increases included in the law,\" said John Buhl, a senior communications manager for the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, which analyzes tax issues. For instance, the Tax Policy Center finds that the average tax increase for the 80% of taxpayers with the lowest incomes \"is very small for 2023, a $50 or less reduction in after-tax income,\" Buhl said. An analysis by the Tax Foundation, another tax policy-focused think tank, found small but broad gains in after-tax income within every income range measured, once other provisions of the law, including the bill’s energy tax credits and health care subsidies, are factored in. Nevertheless, some very-high-income earners could see higher tax burdens because of the corporate book minimum tax and other taxes targeted at high- income groups, said Garrett Watson, a senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation. Our ruling Americans for Prosperity said, \"The Inflation Reduction Act led to higher taxes.\" Taxes are poised to increase under the law, but the increases are targeted at very large corporations and the richest Americans. These tax increases could be passed indirectly to taxpayers with more modest incomes. But overall, independent analyses have found that ordinary Americans can expect to see little, if any, change in what they pay in taxes. We rate the statement Mostly False. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Americans for Prosperity, Facebook ad, July 17, 2023 Tax Policy Center, \"The Inflation Reduction Act primarily impacts top 1% of taxpayers\", accessed Sept. 21, 2023 Tax Foundation, \"Details & Analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act Tax Provisions,\" Aug. 10, 2022 PolitiFact, \"Tom Cotton misleads on how Inflation Reduction Act will impact size of IRS, taxes,\" Aug. 23, 2022 Email interview with John Buhl, senior communications manager for the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, Sept. 20, 2023 Email interview with Garrett Watson, senior tax policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, Sept. 14, 2023 Americans for Prosperity, emailed statement to PolitiFact, Oct. 2, 2023 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by Anthony Starkey ![](\\" ![](\\" Chris Rose stated on October 23, 2023 in a post on X: Gasoline prices are \"up 63%\" under President Joe Biden. ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"half-true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") By Anthony Starkey • November 2, 2023 ![](\\" image-80/0c4f37840a8378d9453cea63daf9200c.jpg\\") ![](\\" image-80/ffc1f7260280583b120e71858ff0578d.jpg\\") Americans for Prosperity stated on July 17, 2023 in a Facebook ad: “The Inflation Reduction Act led to higher taxes.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Anthony Starkey • October 19, 2023 ### Fact-checking how much the Inflation Reduction Act affects taxes * ![](\\" ![](\\" Sam Brown stated on August 28, 2024 in a campaign appearance: Proposed Nevada constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights would put “essentially no limit on access to abortion.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Caleb McCullough • September 13, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Jon Tester stated on September 8, 2024 in a Facebook ad: Tim Sheehy “would let politicians like him ban abortion, with no exceptions for rape or to save a woman’s life, and criminalize women.” ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 12, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on September 8, 2024 in a Threads post: “Elon Musk is going to expose Bill Gates soon, says ‘he’s evil.’” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 12, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 6, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Gordon Ramsay calls Tim Walz a ‘woke creep,’ throws him out of Hell’s Kitchen.” ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 12, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 11, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook: \"ÚLTIMA HORA Río Nilo se pinta de rojo sangre\". ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 12, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on September 7, 2024 in a Threads post: Photo shows Elton John wearing a “MAGA” jacket. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 12, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on September 11, 2024 in a photo: The Minnesota Vikings have denounced Tim Walz: “We don’t suppᴏrt his values.” ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"pants-fire\\"](\\" pants-fire.jpg\\") By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • September 12, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 8, 2024 in Instagram posts: Immigrants get $2,000 each time they cross the border illegally. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Sofia Ahmed • September 12, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Viral image stated on August 30, 2024 in a Facebook post: Video shows tornadoes in Canada. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 12, 2024 * ![](\\" ![](\\" Instagram posts stated on September 8, 2024 in an Instagram post: Video shows a Ku Klux Klan member at a rally for former President Donald Trump. ![\\"false\\"](\\" ![\\"false\\"](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke • September 12, 2024 Load more ### Support independent fact-checking. 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