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New Jersey Policy Perspective: $elling New Jersey $hort: Across-the-Board Income Tax Cut Would Harm the Garden State
January 13, 2014
An across-the-board state income tax cut would be detrimental to New Jersey’s future because it would do nothing to create jobs and grow the economy while disproportionately helping those who need it least and eroding public capacity to invest in the true building blocks of job growth and a strong economy. The state’s finances are […]
Wisconsin Budget Project: Governor Walker’s Tax Shift Plan Would Raise Taxes for Most
January 3, 2014
Governor Walker has said he is interested in eliminating the state’s income tax and raising the sales tax to make up for lost revenue, a move that would result in a tax increase for all but the wealthiest taxpayers. To replace the revenue lost by the income tax, the state sales tax rate would […]
Policy Matter Ohio: Homestead Exemption Still Out of Whack
January 3, 2014
The state budget approved in June limits eligibility for Ohio’s homestead exemption, but doesn’t do enough to focus the property-tax break on seniors who need it most. Read the Full Report
Hawai’i Appleseed Center: Creating a Fairer State Tax System and Economy for All Families
December 20, 2013
Our state’s lower-income families are faced with almost insurmountable structural challenges to escaping poverty. They face the highest cost of living and highest cost of shelter in the nation, with three-quarters of extremely low-income people spending over half of their income on shelter. At the same time, our wages are the lowest in the nation […]
New York State Tax Reform and Fairness Comission: Final Report
November 21, 2013
The New York State Tax Reform and Fairness Commission conducted a comprehensive and objective review of the State’s taxation policy, considering ways to eliminate tax loopholes, promote administrative efficiency and enhance tax collection and enforcement. Read the Full Report
Michigan League for Public Policy: The Path to Prosperity: Ten Steps Michigan Must Take to Strengthen Its Economy
November 13, 2013
Over the last decade, Michigan policymakers have addressed the state’s economic and fiscal problems largely through a combination of budget cuts, tax shifts and reliance on one-time revenues–under the mistaken assumption that the state could cut its way to prosperity, and create jobs and economic growth through reduced business taxes. In fact, the path to […]
Policy Matters Ohio: Another Ohio tax cut for the affluent?
October 29, 2013
Senate bill 210 would take the savings from Medicaid expansion and use it for an across-the-board income-tax cut that might buy a cup of coffee for low-income Ohioans but would give the average top earner enough for a trip to Paris. Read the Full Report
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families: Arkansas tax system should do more for working families
October 22, 2013
According to a new report from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF), tax changes passed during the 2013 session consisted largely of personal income tax cuts benefiting upper-income taxpayers and sales and use tax cuts targeted to specific industry groups. “A Better Foundation: Building a tax system that works for Arkansas families” makes the […]
Policy Matters Ohio: A Credit that Counts
October 21, 2013
More than 440,000 Ohioans will be eligible for the state’s new Earned Income Tax Credit, at an average of $74 per recipient. However, the Ohio EITC is one of the smallest among state credits and has three weaknesses that mean it does less to help working families and reduce poverty than it should. Read the […]
Open Sky Policy Institute: “Real Taxpayers of Nebraska” and cutting the top income tax rate
October 17, 2013
In this “Real Taxpayers” infographic, we examine what cutting Nebraska’s top personal income tax rate to 5.75% would mean for our tax payers. The cut would result in a $156 million revenue loss for the state, which is close to the amount of revenue the state would gain under the sales tax base expansion we […]
Colorado Fiscal Institute: Amendment 66 will Improve Colorado’s Income Tax
October 3, 2013
Amendment 66 will restore Colorado’s ability to raise enough revenue to meet our schools’ growing needs and make the income tax more like those of our neighboring states, all without overburdening Coloradans. From the adoption of the income tax in 1937 through 1986, Colorado used a “tiered” income tax, where tax rates rose along with […]
Oregon Center for Public Policy: A Grandly Flawed Bargain
September 26, 2013
The revenue package that Governor Kitzhaber has presented to the Oregon legislature to consider in a special session starting September 30 suffers from three major flaws: revenue shrinks after the current budget period, it’s mainly a tax cut for some of Oregon’s wealthiest 1 percent, and it won’t create any jobs, despite what its proponents […]
Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center: After the Tech Tax Repeal- Remembering the Big Picture
September 24, 2013
The FY 2014 budget included new investments in our transportation system, in education, and in other areas. Part of the funding for these came from a “tech tax,” which is likely to be repealed without being replaced by an ongoing revenue source. This report explores some of the ways we might in the future fund […]
Center for American Progess: The Real Cost of Cuccinelli
September 23, 2013
Besides working on these major research projects, I developed CTJ/ITEP’s strong online media presence. One of the most important roles I play is as the primary web manager for both CTJ and ITEP. Similarly, over the past two years I successfully initiated and then maintained CTJ and ITEP’s social media presence. Center for American Progress […]
Open Sky Policy Institute: A golden opportunity for tax changes
September 23, 2013
After analyzing options for tax changes put forth by the Tax Modernization Committee, we believe some present a real opportunity to strengthen Nebraska and its economy. Ideas that the committee will discuss at upcoming public hearings that start Monday in Scottsbluff would bolster investments in education, health care and public safety as well as […]
North Carolina Justice Center: Final Tax Plan Falls Far Short of True Tax Reform
September 11, 2013
The tax plan recently signed into law by Governor Pat McCrory fails to make the fundamental changes North Carolina needs to create a modern, adequate and fair revenue system that can boost the state’s economy and strengthen schools, health care and other services families need to prosper and the economy needs to grow. The plan […]
Policy Matters Ohio: Cutting taxes isn’t helping Ohio
September 11, 2013
For years, North Dakota has had the lowest unemployment rate of any state in the nation. Nevada, by contrast, has had the highest. North Dakota has a personal income tax, while Nevada has no personal income tax. There are, of course, other states that show a different pattern. We cite this to illustrate that taxes, […]
South Dakota: Should SD repeal the grocery sales tax with a revenue neutral sales tax increase?
August 26, 2013
SD HB1154 proposes lowering state sales tax on certain food items and increasing sales tax on other goods and services in a revenue-neutral exchange. Read the Full Report
Open Sky Policy Institute: Analysis shows large chunk of income-tax cut would leave Nebraska
August 12, 2013
Ahead of Tuesday’s Tax Modernization Committee meeting on the state’s corporate and personal individual income taxes, OpenSky commissioned the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) to forecast a hypothetical scenario in which the state cuts its top income tax rate to 5 percent. The analysis showed about 40 percent of the tax cut […]
Georgia Budget & Policy Institute: Tax Shift Plans Threaten Georgia’s Future
August 12, 2013
Despite support from powerful out-of-state interests, tax shift plans are misguided roadmaps for change. Georgia’s lawmakers should ignore the siren’s call and firmly reject the fringe, copycat idea during its likely appearance in the 2014 legislative session that begins in January. Read the Full Report (PDF)
The White House: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System
August 1, 2013
Trends in the agriculture sector – due in part to growing domestic demand for fresh fruit and vegetables year-round – indicate that farmworkers are increasingly settling permanently in places where they previously worked temporarily.37 This means not only a more stable and available workforce for farmers, but also higher, year-round consumer demand in the local […]
North Carolina Justice Center: The Math Doesn’t Add Up
July 15, 2013
The latest Senate tax plan continues to provide large tax cuts to the wealthiest taxpayers and profitable corporations, while shifting more of the overall tax load to middle-class families and reducing revenue for schools, health care and other services by nearly $1 billion each year when fully implemented. While Senators say the new scheme addresses […]
New Jersey Policy Perspective: New Jersey’s Undocumented Immigrants Pay Nearly Half a Billion Dollars a Year in State and Local Taxes; Immigration Reform Would Boost These Revenues by $81 Million
July 10, 2013
With fiscal costs and benefits figuring large in the immigration reform debate, a new analysis estimates that unauthorized immigrants are already paying $10.6 billion a year in state and local taxes nationwide, including $476 million in New Jersey. The study, released today by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), also estimates that New […]
The Commonwealth Institute: Immigration Reform Generates Revenue
July 10, 2013
State and local tax contributions of undocumented immigrants in Virginia would increase 42 percent to $259.6 million from $183 million under immigration reform, according to a new report released today by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Nationally, state and local contributions would increase by more than $2 billion. Read the Full Report
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