Maine Politics: LePage Urges Maine Real Estate Group to Support His Tax Reforms
media mentionOther groups, like the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy — whose advocacy arm the Center for Tax Justice has criticized the methodology of the Tax Foundation’s tax system rankings — provide a different perspective on tax system rankings.
ITEP’s 2015 “Inequality Index” looks only at how the tax system affects people making different incomes, comparing the percentage of pre-tax income the rich end up with after taxes to the post-taxation income of middle- and low-income people.
Maine had one of the most equitable tax codes in ITEP’s latest ranking released earlier this month, but some of the proposed changes — like the general shift from income tax to taxes on purchases — would raise Maine’s placement in that ranking (The Tax Foundation, firing back, has criticized ITEP’s ranking system).