States
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media mention August 11, 2015 Ohio Watchdog: Is Sales Tax Holiday Good or Bad for Ohio?
Bill sponsor Rep. John Patterson Jr., D-Jefferson, thinks passage of the measure would generate activity in retail stores and help create excitement that could rival the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday sales.… -
media mention August 11, 2015 Toledo Blade: Ohio Readies for First Break on Sales Tax
Carl Davis, a senior analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit nonpartisan Washington think tank, said that while tax holidays help retailers, they don’t accomplish much… -
ITEP Work in Action August 11, 2015 Connecticut Voices for Children: Impact of the Final FY 2016 Budget on Children and Families
The State of Connecticut’s final FY 16 budget, improved from earlier proposals, still balances on children and families’ finite resources, this analysis finds. While funding the “Children’s Budget” – state… -
media mention August 11, 2015 Columbus Dispatch: Ohio’s Sales-Tax Holiday Gets Mixed Reviews
Ohio’s first sales-tax holiday is in the books, and whether there will be one next year remains a matter of speculation. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy conducted a… -
media mention August 10, 2015 Press Examiner: Day Back To School Sales Tax Holiday Underway
“So states that are not doing sales tax holidays, they’re certainly not missing out”. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, sales-tax holidays cost states about $300 million… -
media mention August 10, 2015 KSWO: Oklahoma Retailers Expect Soaring Sales on Sales Tax Holiday
Oklahoma retailers are stocking their shelves as they prepare for the state’s annual sales tax holiday on back-to-school clothing and shoes. But tax policy analysts say it’s little more than… -
media mention August 7, 2015 TJC News: State Sales Tax Holiday Begins Friday
“Paying more to skip the crowds is a back to school shopping strategy some embraced Thursday before the start of the Texas Sales Tax Holiday weekend. A few examples of… -
media mention August 7, 2015 Washington Times: Oklahoma Retailers Expect Soaring Sales on Sales Tax Holiday
“The bottom line is that whatever policy goal you want to achieve through a sales tax holiday, there are probably better ways to achieve those goals,” said Matthew Gardner, executive… -
media mention August 5, 2015 Canton Repository: Tax-Free Days Give Shoppers a Break
A 2013 analysis on the impact of a tax holiday in Ohio by the Economics Center at the University of Cincinnati found that while retail sales would increase close to… -
media mention August 4, 2015 LA Times: Conservatives are Trying to Prove Income Inequality is a Myth — and Failing
Taxes? Feldstein employs a familiar sleight-of-hand by limiting his analysis to federal taxes, which are still progressive. Factor in state and local levies, and the middle- and working classes are… -
media mention August 4, 2015 Morrow County Sentinel: Sales Tax Holiday: What Does it Mean for Ohio?
Research from the University of Cincinnati Economics Center estimates an almost five percent boost in sales during a sales tax holiday, with average families saving about $38. But according to… -
media mention July 31, 2015 Chattanooga Times Free Press: Back to School Goods are Tax-Free This Weekend in Georgia
Another critic of sales tax holidays is Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a non-profit, non-partisan research organization with offices in Washington D.C.,… -
media mention July 29, 2015 The Herald News: Sen. Michael Rodrigues: Why I Oppose the Massachusetts Sales Tax Holiday
It is that time of year again on Beacon Hill, when the Legislature debates and ultimately passes a sales tax holiday for a weekend in August. Let’s be clear, the… -
media mention July 28, 2015 Hawaii News Now: Film Tax Credits Attract Productions to Hawaii
The filming is almost finished for a new movie being shot entirely Hawaii. The state’s film tax credits are bringing in big productions like “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,”… -
media mention July 28, 2015 NBC: Sales Tax Holidays Complex, Controversial, But Popular With Shoppers
Research by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy contends that increased sales during the tax holidays “have been shown to be primarily the result of consumers’ shifting the… -
media mention July 27, 2015 Sun Herald: Sales Tax Holiday Weekend Arrives July 31
“The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington, D.C., believes sales tax holidays are poorly targeted, providing tax breaks to the wealthiest taxpayers and offering less assistance to the… -
media mention July 24, 2015 CNBC: Tax-Free Shopping Ahead for These States
Research by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, however, contends that increased sales during the tax holidays “have been shown to be primarily the result of consumers’ shifting… -
media mention July 24, 2015 CNN Money: States Raise Sales, Cigarette Taxes
Faced with a $1 billion budget gap, Connecticut this year adopted an array of tax changes, including increasing the top income tax rate to 6.9% and adding a 6.99% rate… -
brief July 22, 2015 Sales Tax Holidays: An Ineffective Alternative to Real Sales Tax Reform
Lawmakers in many states have enacted “sales tax holidays” (at least 17 states will hold them in 2015), to provide a temporary break on paying the tax on purchases of clothing, computers and other items. While these holidays may seem to lessen the regressive impacts of the sales tax, their benefits are minimal. This policy brief examines the many problems associated with sales tax holidays and concludes that they have more political than policy benefits.
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media mention July 22, 2015 CNBC: Is Your State a Gas Tax Winner–Or Loser?
As states from Connecticut to California scramble to find money to fix crumbling highways, Congress once again is expected this week to put a short-term patch on the nearly insolvent… -
media mention July 20, 2015 Herald Sun: Letter to the Editor
Let’s step aside from heated immigration debate for a moment and pragmatically deconstruct the merits of House Bill 328. The “Highway Safety/Citizens Protection Act” provides an avenue for undocumented immigrants… -
media mention July 20, 2015 The Times-Picayune: Why Aren’t the Governor’s Candidates Discussing Poverty?: Robert Mann
Speaking of inequality, it’s not bad enough just to be poor in Louisiana. You can also count on state and local governments taxing you twice as much as the wealthy.… -
media mention July 20, 2015 Daily Leader: Sales Tax Holiday Presents Dilemma
“Sales tax holidays are advertised as a way to give people a break from paying the sales tax, typically during the “back to school” shopping season. Superficially this sounds good,… -
media mention July 20, 2015 Sun Sentinel: Businesses Getting Bigger Breaks to Move or Expand
Broward and Palm Beach counties have awarded millions of taxpayer dollars for company relocations or expansions in recent months, including two major deals completed in just the past two weeks.… -
media mention July 20, 2015 Watchdog: No More Free Rides? Oregon Pay-As-You-Go Plan Could One Day Fund Highways
“If infrastructure costs rise by a modest 2 percent a year, the tax will lose 18 percent of its value within a decade, leaving the state facing the same long-run…