March 3, 2020

Connecticut Mirror: After one alarming tax fairness study, CT is wary of launching a second

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Gasoline distributors shift the entire cost of Connecticut’s 8.1% wholesale fuel tax onto local filling stations, which then pass it all onto motorists — who also pay a 25-cents-per-gallon retail tax.

Meg Wiehe, deputy executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said Connecticut already is a land of “stagnating working-class incomes” and “extreme income and wealth inequality.”

At first glance, analysts often observe the state income tax is relatively progressive. A personal exemption and a property tax credit mean many households earning less than $35,000 per year pay little-to-no income taxes to the state.



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