November 17, 1999

Analysis of Tennessee Tax Reform Proposals

Tennessee’s state legislature is currently considering several proposals for increasing state tax revenues to cover newly emerging budget deficits. The following analysis compares the distributional effects of two proposals that would create broadbased income taxes in Tennessee.

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