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State Rundown 6/26: Summer Special Sessions Are In, Anti-tax Ballot Initiatives Out
• By ITEP Staff
Many families are heading out on summer vacations, but legislators across the country are heading back to statehouses for special sessions...
Property Tax Circuit Breakers Can Help States Create More Equitable Tax Codes
• By Brakeyshia Samms
Well-designed property tax circuit breaker programs allow states to reduce the impact that property taxes have on the upside-down tilt of their tax codes.
SCOTUS Rejects Expansion of Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts, Leaves Broader Tax Questions for Another Day
• By Steve Wamhoff
The Supreme Court matters, for tax fairness as for every other part of our lives. Whether or not we ever have a government that taxes billionaires as much as it taxes the rest of us will depend on how the Supreme Court rules in the future and who appoints justices to the Court.
Tax Policy is a Part of the Black American Story
• By Brakeyshia Samms
Juneteenth is a reminder of the hard-fought victories that helped Black Americans secure their delayed freedom, justice, and suffrage. And in the chapters about tax policy, the tales are no less fraught. From America’s prologue to the last paragraph of the Civil War, governments raised more tax revenue from the taxation of Black bodies than […]
State Rundown 6/13: Decisions are falling into place, but some states will come back for more
• By ITEP Staff
State budgets are falling into place as lawmakers near the end of their legislative sessions...
State Rundown 6/6: A Tale of Two Tax Laws
• By ITEP Staff
This week, it was the best of times or, in some cases, the worst of times for tax policy in two different states...
State Rundown 5/30: Sessions Are In for Summer
• By ITEP Staff
Legislative sessions across the country are still very much in for summer, which means more pencils, more budgets, and more tax plans...
States Should Opt Into IRS Direct File as the Program is Made Permanent
• By Jon Whiten
While there is plenty of room to expand Direct File at the federal level, states can take matters into their own hands and bring this benefit to their residents by opting into the program.
State Rundown 5/22: When One Legislative Session Closes, Another Opens
• By ITEP Staff
State legislatures are wrapping up, but don’t stray too far from your state capital or you’ll miss out on the action...
Better Tax Codes Help Boost Teacher Pay
• By Alex Welch
There are a variety of factors that affect teacher pay. But one often overlooked factor is progressive tax policies that allow states to raise and provide the funding educators and their students deserve.
State Rundown 5/15: The Merry Merry Month of May(be)
• By ITEP Staff
Uncertainty abounds in state tax debates lately...
State Rundown 5/9: Special Sessions in the Air
• By ITEP Staff
This week, special sessions with major tax implications are in the air...
Iowa Flat Tax Shows Why Such Policies Are a Problem Everywhere
• By Eli Byerly-Duke
As Iowa lawmakers change the state’s graduated personal income tax to a single flat rate, they are designing a state tax code where the rich will pay a lower rate overall than families with modest means.
State Rundown 5/2: Vetoes and New Major Tax Proposals
• By ITEP Staff
This week, many states took steps toward enacting tax cuts...
ITEP Comment on Proposed IRS Rule REG-123376-22
• By ITEP Staff
Increased information transfer from the IRS would improve the quality of data at the Census Bureau and expand opportunities for tax policy research. This is critical for researchers who rely on Census Bureau data and products to fill the informational gaps present in tax data.
State Rundown 4/24: It’s Crunch Time
• By ITEP Staff
Many state legislative sessions are wrapping up...
Tax History Matters: A Q&A with Professor Andrew Kahrl, Author of ‘The Black Tax’
• By Brakeyshia Samms
In his new book, The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America, Professor Andrew Kahrl walks readers through the history of the property tax system and its structural defects that have led to widespread discrimination against Black Americans.
TurboTax Maker Puts a Pink Spin on Exploitative Financial Products
• By Amy Hanauer
This op-ed originally appeared in MSNBC Tax preparation behemoth Intuit (maker of TurboTax) recently unveiled a new campaign branding itself as a feminist company. “When it comes to the complexities of the tax code, women encounter distinct challenges,” reads a post on the company’s official blog, “and here at Intuit, we’re committed to empowering prosperity for […]
State Rundown 4/17: Tax Cut Proposals and the Consequences of Bad Tax Cuts
• By ITEP Staff
Happy (belated) Tax Day!
The Case for More Progressive State and Local Tax Systems, in Charts
• By Dylan Grundman O'Neill, Eli Byerly-Duke
In a new chart book, Fairness Matters, we further explore our Who Pays? data with new graphics that reinforce the findings in the main report and demonstrate how state-level tax decisions shape economic divides for better and worse.
These Three Local EITCs Are Boosting Family Incomes at Tax Time
• By Andrew Boardman
This tax season more than 800,000 households in New York City, Maryland's Montgomery County, and San Francisco are set to receive a boost through local refundable EITCs. These credits put dollars directly into the pockets of low-income households, equipping families with resources to better make ends meet and invest in their futures. In turn, they can help build stronger, fairer, and more resilient communities.
State Rundown 4/3: Some States Buck the Trend on Foolish Tax Policy
• By ITEP Staff
This week tax cuts were debated across the upper Midwest...
Five Things to Know About Tax Foundation’s Critique of Maryland’s Worldwide Combined Reporting Proposal
• By Carl Davis, Matthew Gardner
Maryland lawmakers are considering enacting worldwide combined reporting (WWCR), also known as complete reporting. This policy offers a more accurate, and less gameable, way to calculate the amount of profit subject to state corporate tax. Enacting WWCR in Maryland would represent a huge step toward eliminating state corporate tax avoidance as it neutralizes a wide […]
Biden Is Right: Corporate Tax Avoidance Has Big Problems That We Can Fix
• By Jon Whiten
Sensible reforms to the corporate tax system can help both crack down on corporate tax avoidance and ensure companies that are flourishing are paying their share for the public infrastructure that forms the building blocks of their success.
State Rundown 3/28: Tax Cut Madness, But Our Brackets Bet on Tax Fairness
• By ITEP Staff
While madness is typically reserved for basketball in March, several high-profile, regressive tax cuts are making their way through state legislatures this week...
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