Tax Basics
Policy Briefs
- Tax Expenditures: Spending by Another Name - 10/2011
- Examining Economic Development - 09/2011
- Fighting Back: Accountable Economic Development Stories - 09/2011
- Taxes and Economic Development - 09/2011
- Tax Policy Nuts and Bolts: Understanding the Tax Base and Tax Rate - 08/2011
- Tax Principles: Building Blocks of A Sound Tax System - 08/2011
- Introduction to ITEP's Tax Incidence Analysis - 08/2011
- How State Tax Changes Affect Your Federal Taxes: A Primer on the Federal Offset - 08/2011
- Rainy Day Funds: An Important Tool for Balancing State Budgets - 07/2004
Featured Reports
- Previewing Tax Reform in the States: National Trends and State-specific Prospects for 2013 - 12/2012
- Five Steps Toward a Better Tax Expenditure Debate - 10/2012
- Four Tax Ideas for Jobs-Focused Governors - 07/2012
- Arthur Laffer Regression Analysis is Fundamentally Flawed, Offers No Support for Economic Growth Claims - 02/2012
- "High Rate" Income Tax States Are Outperforming No-Tax States - 02/2012
- The ITEP Guide to Fair State and Local Taxes - 03/2011
- Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States - 11/2009
Other Reports
- MULTIPLE STATES: How Federal Tax Reform Can Help or Hurt State and Local Governments - 04/2012
- MULTIPLE STATES: How the Bush Tax Cuts Affect State Revenues - 12/2010
- OREGON: Dear Wall Street Journal: No Need to File a Missing Persons Report, Oregon's High-Income Taxpayers Have Not "Vanished" - 12/2010
- ARIZONA: Census Data Reveal Arizona's Fundamental Tax Mismatch: Arizona is a Low Tax State, But Not for Families Living in Poverty - 09/2010
- ARKANSAS: Census Data Reveal Arkansas Fundamental Tax Mismatch: Arkansas is a Low Tax State, But Not for Families Living in Poverty - 09/2010
- FLORIDA: Census Data Reveal Florida's Fundamental Tax Mismatch: Florida is a Low Tax State, But Not for Families Living in Poverty - 09/2010
- TENNESSEE: Census Data Reveal Tennessee's Fundamental Tax Mismatch: Tennessee is a Low Tax State, But Not for Families Living in Poverty - 09/2010
- TEXAS: Census Data Reveal Texas' Fundamental Tax Mismatch: Texas is a Low Tax State, But Not for Families Living in Poverty - 09/2010
- WASHINGTON: Census Data Reveal Washington's Fundamental Tax Mismatch: Washington is a Low Tax State, But Not for Families Living in Poverty - 09/2010
- MARYLAND: Maryland's Millionaire Migration Debate: Understanding the Relevance of the New Jersey Migration Studies - 03/2010
- MARYLAND: Where Have All of Maryland's Millionaires Gone? - 05/2009
- MULTIPLE STATES: Recent Assertions about State Tax Increases Don't Hold Much Water [Revised Aug 7, 2009] - 05/2009
Testimony
- ALASKA: ITEP Testimony on Alaska Senate State Affairs Committee Regarding SB 29, The Alaska Tax Break Transparency Act - 03/2012
- RHODE ISLAND: ITEP's Testimony on Tax Expenditure Procedural Reform - 05/2011
Links to State-Specific Resources