Category: State Policy
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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... -
Brakeyshia Samms
Senior 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 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. -
Aidan Davis
State Policy DirectorMarch 20, 2024
Eliminating Income Taxes Would Be an Expensive Giveaway
Governors and legislative leaders in a dozen states have made calls to fully eliminate their taxes on personal or corporate income, after many states already deeply slashed them over the past few years. The public deserves to know the true impact of these plans, which would inevitably result in an outsized windfall to states’ richest taxpayers, more power in the hands of wealthy households and corporations, extreme cuts to basic public services, and more deeply inequitable state tax codes. -
March 14, 2024
State Rundown 3/14: Sessions are Heating Up
Many state legislative sessions are in the final stretch... -
Jon Whiten
Deputy DirectorMarch 11, 2024
Recent Tax Cuts Have Expanded Inequality in the States
Some states have improved tax equity by raising new revenue from the well-off and creating or expanding refundable tax credits for low- and moderate-income families in recent years. Others, however, have gone the opposite direction, pushing through deep and damaging tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. Many of these negative developments are quantified in […] -
March 6, 2024
State Rundown 3/6: Tax Cuts Aren’t Forever, or for Evers
Anti-tax interests finally found the end of the tax cutting appetite in a few states this week... -
Neva Butkus
Senior AnalystThe governors of both Kansas and Wisconsin recently stood up to legislators who tried to push through costly tax cuts that would overwhelmingly benefit the most well-off. Lawmakers in those states and others should shift their focus from expensive, top-heavy tax cuts to tried and true policies that help middle-class and low-income families. -
Jon Whiten
Deputy DirectorMarch 4, 2024
Moving the Needle Toward Tax Fairness in the States
While many state lawmakers have spent the past few years debating deep and damaging tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich, more forward-thinking lawmakers have improved tax equity by raising new revenue from the well-off and creating or expanding refundable tax credits for low- and moderate-income families. -
February 28, 2024
State Rundown 2/28: States Keep Busy While Washington Stalls
State legislative sessions are in full swing with New Jersey and Oklahoma both particularly active this week... -
With many state legislatures now in full swing with activity heating up, some tax cut proposals have lost steam...
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Jon Whiten
Deputy DirectorIt’s hard to go a week without seeing a politician or a news article hype up a state as the place that everyone is moving to – or should move to – because of low taxes. However, there’s a big problem with these proclamations: they aren’t true. -
February 14, 2024
State Rundown 2/14: Our Love Language is Taxes
As many of you may know, we love taxes, along with the many great things they provide for our communities... -
While we were hoping to get progressive tax policy wins for Valentine’s Day, many state lawmakers have another idea in mind...
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This week the showdown between the Kansas legislature and governor continued as Gov. Kelly vetoed the legislature’s latest attempt to pass a flat personal income tax. Elsewhere, the focus is on doing more for working families through proposals to expand refundable credits in Maryland and adding a millionaire tax bracket in Rhode Island. Meanwhile, there’s […]
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Bills are moving and state legislative sessions are picking up across the country, giving elected officials the opportunity to consider two distinct paths when it comes to tax policy...
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Carl Davis
Research DirectorJanuary 24, 2024
New Mexico Making Tremendous Progress Making Taxes Less Regressive
Recent tax reforms have helped to bring greater balance to New Mexico's tax code. A new in-depth look at taxes in all 50 states finds New Mexico is an emerging leader, though there’s still plenty of room for improvement. -
Carl Davis
Research DirectorLast week, both houses of the Kansas legislature approved a significant tax cut centered around replacing the state’s graduated rate income tax structure with a flat tax instead. The bulk of this would flow to upper-income families, mostly through lowering the state’s top income tax rate from 5.7 to 5.25 percent. This tax cut would […] -
Carl Davis
Research DirectorJanuary 19, 2024
How the Fairness of State Tax Codes Affects Public Education
The findings of Who Pays? go a long way toward explaining why so many states are failing to raise the amount of revenue needed to provide full and robust support for our public schools. -
January 18, 2024
State Rundown 1/18: State Tax Priorities Taking Shape in 2024
Tax policy themes have begun to crop up in states as governors give their yearly addresses and legislators lay out their plans for the 2024 legislative season... -
Andrew Boardman
Local Policy AnalystJanuary 17, 2024
Worthwhile Ideas for a Stronger and Fairer D.C. Tax Code
The nation’s capital has a once-in-a-decade opportunity to advance a stronger and fairer local tax code. New draft recommendations from a key advisory panel will help leaders make the most of the moment. -
States got a wake-up call this week as ITEP released the latest edition of our flagship Who Pays? report...
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Carl Davis
Research DirectorJanuary 9, 2024
In Most States, the Tax Code Makes Inequality Worse
The vast majority of state and local tax systems are upside-down, with the wealthy paying a far lesser share of their income in taxes than low- and middle-income families. Yet a few states have made strides to buck that trend and have tax codes that are somewhat progressive and therefore do not worsen inequality.
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