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Sales Tax Holidays Miss the Mark When it Comes to Effective Sales Tax Reform
July 17, 2025 • By Miles Trinidad
Sales tax holidays are often marketed as relief for everyday families, but they do little to address the deeper inequities of regressive sales taxes. In 2025, 18 states offer these holidays at a collective cost of $1.3 billion.
States Should Move Quickly to Chart Their Own Course on SALT Deductions
July 17, 2025 • By ITEP Staff
While a federal SALT cap is hotly debated, capping deductibility at $10,000 was an unambiguously good idea at the state level. States would be smart to stick with the current cap or, better yet, go even farther and repeal SALT deductions outright. Going along with a higher federal SALT cap…
Two in Three Americans Live in States with Variable-Rate Gas Taxes
July 16, 2025 • By Carl Davis
As inflation and fuel efficiency undercut traditional gas tax revenue, many states are rethinking how they fund transportation. Lawmakers across the country are beginning to modernize outdated gas tax systems to keep pace with rising infrastructure costs and changing driving habits.
June Budget Report Doesn’t Erase Our Nation’s Fiscal Challenges
July 15, 2025 • By Joe Hughes
Nobody should be too excited and think this means our country is headed toward lower deficits - especially when the administration recently signed one of the most expensive budget reconciliation bills in history.
Anti-Tax Revolts Backfire: What We’ve Learned from 50 Years of Property Tax Limits
July 15, 2025 • By Rita Jefferson
Across-the-board property tax cuts create less fair local tax systems in the long run. State legislators and local governments should prioritize the residents who can least afford their property taxes, not the residents and businesses who can.
ITEP in the News
PolitiFact: Trump Signs Legislation Introducing Federal Tax Credit for School Choice
Fortune: For the First Time in 50 Years, The U.S. Will Likely Experience Negative Net Migration, Shrinking The U.S. Workforce – And Economic Growth by Extension
USA Today: Would Mamdani's 'Millionaire Tax' Chase the Rich Out of New York City?
Rolling Stone: Every Dirty Gift Trump’s Big Bill Gives the Fossil Fuel Industry
Washington Post: Conservatives Are Asking Trump for Another Big Tax Cut
ITEP Work in Action
Georgia Budget & Policy Institute: Historic Federal Tax Shift Benefits Wealthiest, Grows Deficit and Exacerbates Georgia’s Rural Challenges
Demos: The Reconciliation Bill Is a Brazen Betrayal of Present and Future Generations
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies: Joint Center Launches 2025 Tax Advisory Committee
Florida Policy Institute: What Floridians Should Know About the FY 2025-26 Tax Package
The Bell Policy Center: Colorado’s Rural Communities Will Suffer from the Federal Budget Bill
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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 7/8: State Tax Cuts Continue Despite Federal Megabill Passing
The last states are wrapping up legislative sessions, and some are crossing the finish line with major income tax cuts.
Two in Three Americans Live in States with Variable-Rate Gas Taxes
As inflation and fuel efficiency undercut traditional gas tax revenue, many states are rethinking how they fund transportation. Lawmakers across the country are beginning to…
State & Local Tax Policy
Sales Tax Holidays Miss the Mark When it Comes to Effective Sales Tax Reform
July 17, 2025 • By Miles Trinidad
States Should Move Quickly to Chart Their Own Course on SALT Deductions
July 17, 2025 • By ITEP Staff
Anti-Tax Revolts Backfire: What We’ve Learned from 50 Years of Property Tax Limits
July 15, 2025 • By Rita Jefferson
