These changes would be phased out after Dec. 31, 2025, and would affect approximately 120 million tax returns, according to the Tax Complexity Analysis. That would equal about 84.4 percent of the 142.2 million tax returns filed this year as of July, according to the IRS.
Mesa, Arizonaâs title as the most conservative city in the country fits in with our preconceptions about national politics, but the fact that Buffalo, New York is more liberal than Chicago or that Portland doesnât even crack the top 10 is more of a surprise.
What we found, partially due to the use of county-level data for some of the measures, that certain states had a sizable number of cities that skewed one way or another. Liberal cities were most often found in California, Maryland and Massachusetts. Conservatives concentrated in places like Texas and Tennessee.