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State Rundown 6/25: The Numbers Don't Lie, State Budget Edition
June 25, 2025 • By ITEP Staff
Many states are reaching their end-of-June budget deadlines, and major tax policy changes look to have big implications as states are forced, per federal policy, to do more with less.
Analysis of Tax Provisions in the Senate Reconciliation Bill: National and State Level Estimates
June 25, 2025 • By Carl Davis, Jessica Vela, Joe Hughes, Steve Wamhoff
Compared to its House counterpart, the Senate bill makes certain tax provisions more generous, including corporate tax breaks that it makes permanent rather than temporary. But the bottom line for both is the same. Both bills give more tax cuts to the richest 1 percent than to the entire bottom…
Senate Republicans Rig the Rules to Make Their Tax Bill Look Responsible. It’s Not.
June 24, 2025 • By Jon Whiten, Steve Wamhoff
No matter how much Senate leadership bends the rules to make their tax cuts look better on paper, the cost and impact on the deficit remains the same under a current policy baseline. It’s a move meant to mask the true cost and push a reckless bill through.
State Rundown 6/20: Federal tax policy heats up, states wrap sessions and weigh impacts
June 18, 2025 • By ITEP Staff
As state legislative sessions come to a close, decisions on tax policy are being made. Several southern states have cut taxes, while the northeast is making some more measured reforms.
Alabama Sunsets its Expensive ‘No Tax on Overtime’ Policy
June 18, 2025 • By Neva Butkus
The idea of exempting overtime pay from income tax has gained traction, but there's little evidence it's an effective policy. Alabama tried it in 2023 but ended the policy after just two years. Their reversal highlights how exempting overtime is an expensive gimmick and a distraction from real worker issues.
ITEP in the News
The Wall Street Journal: The Tax Bill Would Deliver a Big Win for Private Schools – and Investors
USA Today: Trump Orders ICE to Expand Efforts in NYC, LA, Chicago: See How Many Immigrants Live in Major Metros
WHYY News: ‘Every dollar counts’: Critics Say Plan to Increase Fees, Taxes and Tolls Will Disproportionately Hurt Poor Delawareans
Christian Science Monitor: US Economy Faces Reckoning as Some Immigrants Avoid Workplaces
The Washington Post: The U.S. is Giving Up on Taxing Inheritances
ITEP Work in Action
Nebraska Legislature: Poverty Elimination Action Plan
Video: ITEP's Amy Hanauer Discusses 2025 Tax Bill on Power at Work Blogcast
League of Women Voters: What's Happening with Medicaid, Tax Cuts, and Budget Bills?
EdTrust: The Great American Heist: Taxing Education, Not Billionaires or Corporations
Testimony: ITEP's Amy Hanauer Discusses the House Reconciliation Bill During a Senate Spotlight Forum
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 6/25: The Numbers Don't Lie, State Budget Edition
Many states are reaching their end-of-June budget deadlines, and major tax policy changes look to have big implications as states are forced, per federal policy,…
Taxes on Adult-Use Cannabis in Each State
Twenty-three states have legalized the sale of cannabis for general adult use, and sales are already underway in 21 of those states. Every state allowing…
State & Local Tax Policy
Alabama Sunsets its Expensive ‘No Tax on Overtime’ Policy
June 18, 2025 • By Neva Butkus
North Carolina Tax Proposal Prioritizes Millionaires Over Everyone Else
June 11, 2025 • By Dylan Grundman O'Neill, Miles Trinidad
D.C.'s Budget Crisis Demands Fairer Business Tax System
June 9, 2025 • By Nick Johnson
