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States Are Opening a Pandora’s Box of Data Centers
November 19, 2025 • By Page Gray
State governments are rushing to offer billions of dollars in subsidies to data center construction, apparently without understanding their full costs.
Local Vacancy Taxes: A Tool but Not a Panacea
November 17, 2025 • By Rita Jefferson
Vacancy taxes will not single-handedly solve problems in cities, but they are worth considering to address housing shortages, land use, and building thriving communities.
State Rundown 11/13: States Tackle Impending Deficits, Pennsylvania Secures an EITC
November 13, 2025 • By ITEP Staff
Revenue forecasts look increasingly grim as states anticipate shortfalls due to the slowing economy and impacts of the new federal tax law.
Don’t Hold Your Breath Waiting for a Tariff Dividend from Trump
November 12, 2025 • By Steve Wamhoff
Trump gives a promise, with absolutely no plan, to give $2,000 to every American using tariff revenue.
Trump Goes Outside the Law to Give Even More Tax Cuts to the Wealthy
November 12, 2025 • By Steve Wamhoff
Trump's Treasury is overstepping far beyond its constitutional role by giving unlegislated tax cuts to the wealthy.
ITEP in the News
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Eliminating Missouri’s Income Tax Would Do Nothing but Shift Costs to the Poor
The New Republic: Trump’s Quiet Giveaway to His Big Business Cronies
The Guardian: How Could Zohran Mamdani Pay for His Bold Agenda for New York? We Broke it Down
Wall Street Journal: Trump’s Tax Cuts are Exposing Companies to Biden’s Tax Hike
USA Today: Would Mamdani’s ‘Millionaire Tax’ Chase the Rich out of New York City?
ITEP Work in Action
Georgia Budget and Policy Institute: Breaking the Bank: Eliminating the State Income Tax Harms Most Georgians and Increases the Cost of Living
Economic Policy Institute: Raising Taxes on the Ultrarich
The Commonwealth Institute: Policy Choices to Protect and Increase Investment in Virginia Communities
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy: State and Federal Tax Cuts of the Last Decade Are Giving an Enormous Windfall to the Wealthiest Kentuckians
Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy: Conforming With Recent Federal Tax Changes Will Result in Over $284.4 Million in Annual Revenue Loss in Idaho
Across the States
Tax Watch
State Tax Watch 2025
ITEP tracks tax discussions in legislatures across the country and uses our unique data capacity to analyze the revenue, distributional, and racial and ethnic impacts of many of these proposals. State Tax Watch offers the latest news and movement from each state.
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State Rundown & On the Map
State Rundown 11/13: States Tackle Impending Deficits, Pennsylvania Secures an EITC
Revenue forecasts look increasingly grim as states anticipate shortfalls due to the slowing economy and impacts of the new federal tax law.
Taxes on Adult-Use Cannabis in Each State
Twenty-three states have legalized the sale of cannabis for general adult use. Every state allowing legal sales applies an excise tax to cannabis based on…
State & Local Tax Policy
States Are Opening a Pandora's Box of Data Centers
November 19, 2025 • By Page Gray
Local Vacancy Taxes: A Tool but Not a Panacea
November 17, 2025 • By Rita Jefferson
State Tax Dollars Shouldn't Subsidize Federal Opportunity Zones
November 12, 2025 • By Eli Byerly-Duke
