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Puget Sound Business Journal: Replace sales tax hike with business tax to pay for transit
June 13, 2014
Seattle Councilmembers Nick Licata and Kshama Sawant Jun 12, 2014, 10:59am PDT Washington state has the nation’s most regressive tax structure, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s (a progressive D.C.-based think tank) latest edition of “ Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States.” Washington state’s sales […]
The Progressive Pulse: House leadership takes a different path than Senate and Governor when it comes to paying for its budget
June 13, 2014
Posted by : Tazra Mitchell Wednesday, June 11, 2014 It is worth lifting up the question that few people are asking: what if the tax plan ends up costing more than originally estimated? As we reported last month, estimates from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) suggest that the revenue projections for next […]
Maine Policy Review: The Distributional Effects of Recent Changes to Maine’s Tax System
June 11, 2014 • By ITEP Staff
Both classical economic theory and recent empirical research support the notion that taxes should be progressive: that the wealthiest citizens should pay a larger share of their income in taxes than the middle class, and the middle class should pay a larger share of their income in taxes than the poor. Like every other state […]
Arise Citizens’ Policy Project: Out of Step – Alabama’s Unusual State Tax System
June 11, 2014 • By ITEP Staff
Taxes are the tools that Americans use to pay for education, public health, transportation and other elements of the common good. Just as states differ in the scale of services offered, they also differ on the ways to pay for those services. Some states lean on property taxes to fund public services, while others rely […]
Washington Budget & Policy Center: Flawed Economic Model Hurts Washington State
June 11, 2014 • By ITEP Staff
An economic model frequently cited by some Washington state lawmakers to justify their opposition to tax increases distorts the impact of tax proposals on state economies, according to a new study from the non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The report makes it clear the Beacon Hill Institute’s State Tax Analysis Modeling Program […]
Heartlander: As States Mull Sales Tax Holidays, Analysts Bemoan the Policy
June 10, 2014
Heather Kays from River Edge, New Jersey. Meg Wiehe, policy director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said 16 to 20 states hold similar tax holidays as a way to increase sales, and none of the anticipated economic goals are achieved. “The policy intent was that there’s a time of year that families […]
Michigan League for Public Policy: Road fix must protect low-income families
June 9, 2014 • By ITEP Staff
“It’s clear that Michigan must come up with a solution to repair its broken roads. A funding solution that requires a higher sales tax, however, will be especially difficult for lower-income working families who already pay a greater share of their income in state and local taxes. Read the Full Report
Moyers & Company: Taxes – Who Pays How Much in Eight Charts
June 9, 2014
June 6, 2014 by Joshua Holland Many states’ income taxes are less progressive than the federal system, property taxes tend to be somewhat regressive and sales and “sin” taxes are very regressive. A 2013 study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that those kinds of consumption taxes averaged a “7 percent rate […]
Reason Blog: Hurricane Season Sales Tax Holidays – Save Now, Pay Later
June 9, 2014
Gov. Scott and other politicians enjoy touting the benefits of these sales tax vacations because they are popular with voters. They say it helps the poor, and the retail rush boosts the economy. But are those claims true? The short answer from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy is “no.” Read the entire article
South Florida Times: State Policies Affect the Middle Class
June 5, 2014
By David Madland and Keith Miller, June 5, 2014 The past 30 years has not been kind to Florida’s middle class which now ranks among the weakest in the nation. While the state enjoyed significant economic growth over this period, few of the benefits ever trickled down to the families who were not among the […]
AP: State Governments May Be Expanding the Wealth Gap
June 5, 2014
"What's happening at the state level is increasingly important, and, to many eyes, it appears to be moving things in one direction -- towards greater inequality," said Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington-based tax research group.
Huffington Post: Koch Brothers Group Holds Complete Opposite of Moral Mondays Protest
June 3, 2014
North Carolina families with annual incomes below $84,000 will on average see higher taxes when the bill's impact is combined with the legislature's elimination of the state's Earned Income Tax Credit and increased sales taxes, according to data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the North Carolina Justice Center.
St. Cloud Times: State Finally Rescinds Tax Regressivity
June 3, 2014
However, from 2000 to 2010, tax regressivity in Minnesota nearly doubled based on data from The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
Toledo Blade: Bad budget business
June 3, 2014
The progressive advocacy group Policy Matters Ohio worked with the Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan organization in Washington, to analyze the Senate bill. They conclude that most of the tax relief in the measure would go to the top 5 percent of Ohioans — those who earned at least $151,000 last year. […]
Wisconsin Budget Project: Recent Tax Cuts Deliver Little to People Who Earn the Least
June 3, 2014 • By ITEP Staff
Three major tax cut packages passed by the Wisconsin legislature in the last year have delivered relatively little benefit to the lowest earners, who are struggling to make ends meet. In dollar amounts, the largest tax cuts went to the Wisconsin taxpayers who earned the most. If state lawmakers want to cut taxes for Wisconsin […]
Salon: Behind the 1 Percent’s Brazen New Scheme to Raise Your Taxes and Cut Their Own
June 2, 2014
By Paul Rosenberg, June 2, 2014 You might think that tax cuts that pay for themselves had disappeared from rational discourse ages ago. If so, you’d be sadly mistaken. Instead, “rationality” has been redefined to make such tax cuts “true by definition,” at least in one economic model that’s playing an influential role in state-level […]
Boston Globe: Tax the Roads, Not Fuel
June 2, 2014
By Jeff Jacoby, June 2, 2014 For decades, gasoline taxes have been the largest source of funds for building and fixing America’s highways. What happens if those funds dry up? Gasoline sales have been trending downward in recent years, thanks in part to more fuel-efficient cars, which travel farther and farther between fill-ups. That trend […]
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Ten Good Reason to Vote against the Transportation Sales Tax
June 2, 2014
By the Editorial Board, May 31, 2014 It has been said of this editorial page that we’ve never met a tax increase we didn’t like. That’s not entirely true, but it’s close. We tend to favor fair taxes used in the common good for vital public services. But now we’ve studied the three-quarter-cent state sales […]
The Christian Science Monitor: Hurricane Season Is Here, and Preparation Is Tax-Free
June 2, 2014
By Renu Zaretsky, June 2, 2014 Hurricane season began yesterday, and millionaires or not, Floridians can purchase hurricane supplies sales-tax free until June 8. Eligible items include ice packs, flashlights, portable radios, portable generators, Tiki torches, and certain batteries (AAs are tax-free, AAAs are not). Sales tax holidays grew more popular as states carried budget surpluses: They were seen as a way […]
Vice: What Replaces the Gas Tax Once Electric Cars Replace Gas
May 30, 2014
By Ben Richmond, May 28, 2014 As we move to replace gasoline, the states are looking at how they’re going to replace revenue collected via the gas tax. They’re caught in a balancing act, between penalizing people driving electric vehicles and maintaining their roads and bridges. You can be forgiven for thinking that cars becoming […]
Bloomberg BNA: Extras on Excise, Running out of Gas
May 30, 2014
By Rebecca Helmes, May 28, 2014 New Hampshire drivers will soon pay more per gallon in gas tax, and in return their Interstate 93 widening project will be funded, along with other highway projects. On the heels of several states’ gas tax increases in 2013, the Granite State is the first this year to enact […]
Progressive Pulse: How the Senate Pays for Its 2015 Budget Proposal
May 30, 2014
By Tazra Mitchell, May 30, 2014 On Wednesday evening, the North Carolina Senate unveiled its $21.16 billion budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year that begins in June 2014 and ends in July 2015. The Senate leadership decided to put the budget on a fast track to approval, bypassing the appropriations subcommittee process and scheduling […]
Ohio Watchdog: Is Sales Tax Holiday Good or Bad for Ohio
May 30, 2014
By Maggie Thurber, May 30, 2014 Ohio is once again considering an August sales tax holiday for schools supplies and equipment, but two tax groups think it’s a bad deal for taxpayers. House Bill 450 would provide a three-day “holiday” each August. Sales and use taxes would not be charged on back-to-school clothing, school supplies, personal […]
Deleware NewsZap: Gas Tax-Is it Still Happening?
May 27, 2014
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan think-tank, the challenge with state gas taxes is its unsustainability, as it relates to vehicle fuel efficiency and the rising cost of building infrastructure.
Bloomberg: How Gasoline-Use Drop May Raise Taxes in Deleware
May 27, 2014
Fuel-efficiency gains, inflation and higher construction costs have eroded the ability of state gasoline taxes to keep pace with needs, said Carl Davis, an analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington-based research group.
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