As legislative leaders in Harrisburg refuse to implement a tax on Marcellus Shale gas extraction and to close tax loopholes for wealthy interests, a new study reveals the consequences of…
According to a new report, New Mexico tax policy is moving in the wrong direction, as a reduction in corporate taxes coupled with increases in gross receipts taxes is putting…
Oklahoma has the 16th most unfair state and local tax system in the country, says a report released Wednesday. In Oklahoma, the bottom 80 percent of taxpayers are paying between…
“A new report finds Pennsylvania remains on a list of the “Terrible 10” states with the most regressive tax policies. The nonpartisan Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy finds that…
“New Jersey’s state and local tax system is fairer than most states, though low- and middle-income residents still devote a larger share of their income to taxes than the wealthy.…
“Taxes in New York may be the highest in the country, but at least they are reasonably equitable, according to the latest Who Pays study from the liberal Institute on…
“Florida’s tax system poses a larger burden on poorer residents than almost any other state, according to a report released Wednesday by policy researchers at the Institute on Taxation and…
“A new study from the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy (ITEP) analyzes the tax structures of all 50 states and finds that Georgia’s richest contribute a much smaller share…
A report by a non-partisan think tanks says that America’s poor are disproportionately burdened when it comes to paying taxes. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, virtually…
A new report finds that every state tax system, with the exception of the District of Columbia, taxes its poorest residents at significantly higher tax rates than the wealthiest 1…
“A new study says that taxpayers in the lowest-income bracket in Rhode Island can expect to pay nearly twice as much of their income toward state and local taxes as…
“Utah’s tax burden is at its lowest point in 20 years. But poor and middle-class Utahns pay nearly twice as much of their earnings for tax as do the wealthiest…
You can go to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy for Arkansas-specific information. Arkansas does not make the “terrible ten” most regressive states, where the bottom 20 percent pay…
“A new study released today by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) puts Arkansas among the most unfair tax systems in the country. According to the study, Arkansas’s…
“Low and middle-income Oklahomans pay more than two times more in taxes as a percentage of their income compared to the state’s wealthiest residents, a new study finds. On Wednesday,…
“New Jersey’s poor and middle-class families pay a larger share of their income in taxes than the rich, but the tax structure is more progressive than three-quarters of the states,…
Florida’s tax system poses a larger burden on poorer residents than almost any other state, according to a report released Wednesday by policy researchers at the Institute on Taxation…
“The lower your income, the greater share of it you pay in state and local taxes, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reports today. This is true all across…
Connecticut ranks 26 in a study that judges the fairness of state tax systems. According to the study, states with regressive tax structures have negative tax inequality indexes, meaning that…
“Arkansas ranks eleventh in the nation when it comes to taxing the poor. The poorest Arkansans, those making under $9,600 per year, pay two times more in taxes as a…
Lower-income people in Kansas are taxed at more than twice the rate as upper-income people, according to a new report released Wednesday. The fifth edition of the “Who Pays?” study…
The 2015 report, entitled Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All Fifty States by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, or ITEP, claims to assess…
“Poor Alabamians continue to pay a larger share of their income in state and local taxes than upper-income earners, but the state no longer is among the “Terrible Ten,” according…
“Americans assume their tax system is progressive and fair, with the wealthy paying a greater percentage of their income to support government than the poor and middle class. Many Americans…
