Category: State Policy
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July 11, 2024
State Rundown 7/11: Mansion Taxes in the Spotlight
While Massachusetts legislators recently dropped a real estate transfer tax from their major housing bill, the District of Columbia council sent a budget to the mayor that includes a mansion tax that would increase the tax rate on properties valued over $2.5 million. Meanwhile, lawmakers in New Jersey and South Carolina continue to, respectively, raise and reduce needed revenues. -
Eli Byerly-Duke
State Policy AnalystKeeping the Kentucky income tax on a march to zero would mean tax hikes for working families or widespread cuts to education, health care, and other public services. Reversing course is certainly the wiser course of action. -
Many families are heading out on summer vacations, but legislators across the country are heading back to statehouses for special sessions...
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Brakeyshia Samms
Senior Policy AnalystWell-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. -
Brakeyshia Samms
Senior Policy AnalystJune 17, 2024
Tax Policy is a Part of the Black American Story
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 budgets are falling into place as lawmakers near the end of their legislative sessions...
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June 6, 2024
State Rundown 6/6: A Tale of Two Tax Laws
This week, it was the best of times or, in some cases, the worst of times for tax policy in two different states... -
May 30, 2024
State Rundown 5/30: Sessions Are In for Summer
Legislative sessions across the country are still very much in for summer, which means more pencils, more budgets, and more tax plans... -
Jon Whiten
Deputy DirectorWhile 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 legislatures are wrapping up, but don’t stray too far from your state capital or you’ll miss out on the action...
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Alex Welch
Assistant Communications DirectorMay 16, 2024
Better Tax Codes Help Boost Teacher Pay
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. -
May 15, 2024
State Rundown 5/15: The Merry Merry Month of May(be)
Uncertainty abounds in state tax debates lately... -
May 9, 2024
State Rundown 5/9: Special Sessions in the Air
This week, special sessions with major tax implications are in the air... -
Eli Byerly-Duke
State Policy AnalystAs 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. -
This week, many states took steps toward enacting tax cuts...
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April 24, 2024
State Rundown 4/24: It’s Crunch Time
Many state legislative sessions are wrapping up... -
Brakeyshia Samms
Senior Policy AnalystIn 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. -
Happy (belated) Tax Day!
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Dylan Grundman O'Neill
Senior Policy AnalystIn 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. -
This week tax cuts were debated across the upper Midwest...
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Carl Davis
Research DirectorMaryland 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 […] -
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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Brakeyshia Samms
Senior Policy AnalystMarch 26, 2024
Our Taxes Can Set Kids Up for Success
Every child deserves the opportunity to succeed in society – and tax policy has a huge role to play in making that happen. Better tax policy can help prepare our young children with skills to become successful and thriving adults. -
March 20, 2024
State Rundown 3/20: Investments Over Cuts
Over the past week Utah continued its slow march toward a more inequitable tax code... -
Marco Guzman
Senior Policy AnalystMarch 20, 2024
States Move to Tax the Top in 2024
These forward-thinking states are demonstrating the wide variety of options for policymakers who want to raise more from the wealthiest people, rein in corporate tax avoidance, create fair tax codes and build strong communities.
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