All In for DC, a campaign powered by the Just Recovery DC Coalition, is fighting for a Tax System for Justice. A Tax System for Justice would tax wealth, increase taxes on very high incomes, make business taxes fair, and help low- and moderate-income households make ends meet. The tax policy proposals below lay out some of the many options DC lawmakers have at their disposal to ensure an equitable and just future for DC.

Raise the tax rate on capital gains: Capital gains—profit from selling assets like stocks—overwhelmingly flow to the top 1 percent.

Make business taxes fair: Restructure DC’s business taxes by enacting a Business Activity Tax so that corporations operating in the District and benefitting from our economy and services, but currently not paying taxes to DC, contribute to our shared resources.

Implement a Land Value Tax to fund WMATA: A tax on areas within a mile of Metro stations to provide a dedicated revenue source for our transit system.

Expand the local child tax credit to help end child poverty in the District, especially among Black children and children without Social Security numbers, who are the vast majority of children living in poverty in DC.

Expand and automate the property tax credit (known as Schedule H) for low- and moderate-income homeowners and renters so they can better afford to stay in DC.

Mansion tax: Deepen the progressivity and rates on the highest value homes, to win greater revenue than Chairman Mendelson’s very limited version, passed last spring.

Millionaires tax: Raise tax rates on income above $500,000, and especially rates for incomes over $1 million.