Washington is not, as we are often led to believe, the cat’s meow when it comes to being liberal and progressive—despite its perceived leading role in a growing movement toward…
An analysis from the nonpartisan Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy showed the wealthiest 1 percent of Kansans set to pay 1.9 percent less in taxes than in 2012, with…
Flanked by two men who were not enamored of some of his highest-profile initiatives, Kasich praised Ohio’s new $71.2 billion, two-year budget as “good stuff” on Friday. The latest analysis…
To close a loophole that has allowed multistate corporations to evade their fair share of taxes in New Jersey, Senator Raymond Lesniak and Senator Linda Greenstein today introduced legislation to…
Kansas already had the ninth-most regressive tax system in the nation, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The tax increase signed last week by Gov. Sam Brownback…
But Senate Republicans did add an extra income tax cut for about 1 million business owners. They wouldn’t have to pay income taxes on their first $250,000 in profits and…
Both Congress and state legislatures have been reluctant to increase tax rates. Oregon last raised its gas tax in 2011, while the federal gas tax has been unchanged since 1993.…
Brownback has been defiant. “Some would have you believe this bill represents a tax increase, and that is not accurate,” the governor said last week. “When looked at in totality,…
Ask any fiscal expert, and Kansas’s budget crisis demanded a reckoning—either with its tax code or its longterm spending structure. But its government wasn’t up to it. Aligned with conservatives…
It’s true that lower taxes might bring new customers into the market, which would be great for the yacht industry. Yet every dollar spent on new boats is a dollar…
Republican leaders in the state Senate are betting on sales-tax revenues to keep North Carolina’s government afloat for the next few years. It’s a bad bet for most ordinary Tar…
The three budget plans are competing to see which can offer the biggest, most unnecessary, and most unfair tax cut. The $71.3 billion budget bill approved this week by the…
More than one in seven Massachusetts families benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the impact is even greater in many urban communities. The current state Earned Income Tax…
The Washington-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which is critical of the policy, said according to its analysis the poorest 20 percent of Kansans will pay about $197 more…
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a liberal-leaning think tank that has criticized Brownback’s policies, released an analysis hours later showing that the bottom 40 percent of Kansans on…
According to the administration, without the tax bills passed this year, Kansans would pay $1.06 billion less in income and sales taxes than they would have before the 2012 tax…
Meg Wiehe from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy told the Washington Post that only the rich have incomes that are growing. “Kansas has really shifted the responsibility for…
“Brownback, his top aides and their legislative allies have argued repeatedly that cuts in income tax rates benefited all classes of taxpayers. The governor noted that one provision of this…
“The vast majority of 2.8 million Kansans are doing worse,” Ward said. “They’ve had their taxes increased twice in the last three years.” Ward said the sales tax increases in…
Brownback, his top aides and their legislative allies have argued repeatedly that cuts in income tax rates benefited all classes of taxpayers. The governor noted that one provision of this…
Brownback contends that all taxpayers have benefited from the cuts. Critics say that wealthier Kansans gained most directly. And an analysis Tuesday from Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, a…
Kansans who make the least often pay more of their income on taxes. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy says anyone who make less than $20,000 a year pays…
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan, left-leaning group based in Washington D.C., ran the numbers and projects the poor will pay more, while the rich will pay…
But a new analysis Tuesday from Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan but left-leaning policy group based in Washington, said the cumulative effects of the changes in tax…
TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback says a plan increasing sales and other taxes does not count as a tax increase because it comes on the heels of income tax cuts…
