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Asheville Citizen-Times: Long-term tax shifts may hit rich and poor differently
May 29, 2015
North Carolina’s sales tax law has loopholes large enough to drive a truck through — or sail a boat, pilot an airplane or guide a train. Or pull a wood chipper through, provided it is intended for use out of state. Each of those items gets preferential treatment under the law, underlining difficulties with a […]
Maryland Center on Economic Policy: Maryland’s Poor Taxed More Than Rich; Communities of Color Feel Biggest Pinch
February 28, 2015
The state’s highest income households pay the lowest percentage of their yearly earnings in state and local taxes compared to middle-class and low-income households. Residents struggling the most to make ends meet — Maryland’s poor and minorities — also are being taxed to a greater extent than the wealthiest. This unfortunate reality reinforces both economic […]
Read the Report in PDF The 2015 Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All Fifty States (the fifth edition of the report) assesses the fairness of state and local tax systems by measuring the state and local taxes that will be paid in 2015 by different income groups as a share […]
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