Nebraska
State Rundown 7/25: Summertime Hits Different in Different States
• By ITEP Staff
State lawmakers will have a lot to discuss when they compare notes on how they spent their summer vacations this year...
Five Tax Takeaways from 2024 State Legislative Sessions
• By Aidan Davis
Major tax cuts were largely rejected this year, but states continue to chip away at income taxes. And while property tax cuts were a hot topic across the country, many states failed to deliver effective solutions to affordability issues.
Improving Refundable Tax Credits by Making Them Immigrant-Inclusive
• By Emma Sifre, Marco Guzman
Undocumented immigrants who work and pay taxes but don't have a valid Social Security number for either themselves or their children are excluded from federal EITC and CTC benefits. Fortunately, several states have stepped in to ensure undocumented immigrants are not left behind by the gaps in the federal EITC and CTC. State lawmakers should continue to ensure that immigrants who are otherwise eligible for these tax credits receive them.
State Rundown 7/11: Mansion Taxes in the Spotlight
• By ITEP Staff
While Massachusetts legislators recently dropped a real estate transfer tax from their major housing bill, the District of Columbia council sent a budget to the mayor that includes a mansion tax that would increase the tax rate on properties valued over $2.5 million. Meanwhile, lawmakers in New Jersey and South Carolina continue to, respectively, raise and reduce needed revenues.
State Rundown 6/26: Summer Special Sessions Are In, Anti-tax Ballot Initiatives Out
• By ITEP Staff
Many families are heading out on summer vacations, but legislators across the country are heading back to statehouses for special sessions...
States Should Enact, Expand Mansion Taxes to Advance Fairness and Shared Prosperity
• By Carl Davis, Erika Frankel
The report was produced in partnership with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and co-authored by CBPP’s Deputy Director of State Policy Research Samantha Waxman.[1] Click here to use our State Mansion Tax Estimator A historically large share of the nation’s wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, a reality glaring in […]
State Rundown 6/13: Decisions are falling into place, but some states will come back for more
• By ITEP Staff
State budgets are falling into place as lawmakers near the end of their legislative sessions...
State Rundown 5/30: Sessions Are In for Summer
• By ITEP Staff
Legislative sessions across the country are still very much in for summer, which means more pencils, more budgets, and more tax plans...
State Rundown 5/22: When One Legislative Session Closes, Another Opens
• By ITEP Staff
State legislatures are wrapping up, but don’t stray too far from your state capital or you’ll miss out on the action...
State Rundown 5/9: Special Sessions in the Air
• By ITEP Staff
This week, special sessions with major tax implications are in the air...
State Rundown 4/24: It’s Crunch Time
• By ITEP Staff
Many state legislative sessions are wrapping up...
OpenSky Policy Institute: Modeling Details How Amended Tax Package Would Impact Nebraskans
• By ITEP Staff
Most Nebraskans who claim the state income tax credit on property taxes paid to public schools will see little change in what they pay resulting from the tax package to be debated today, the final day of the Legislative session. But for Nebraska’s lowest-income earners – households making less than $30,000 annually – the impact of […]
State Rundown 4/17: Tax Cut Proposals and the Consequences of Bad Tax Cuts
• By ITEP Staff
Happy (belated) Tax Day!
State Rundown 4/3: Some States Buck the Trend on Foolish Tax Policy
• By ITEP Staff
This week tax cuts were debated across the upper Midwest...
Associated Press: Lawmakers in GOP-Led Nebraska Advance Bill To Raise Sales Tax
April 3, 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — With no votes to spare, Nebraska lawmakers advanced a bill that would raise the state’s sales tax by 1 cent to 6.5% on every taxable dollar spent — which would make it among the highest in the country.
Open Sky Policy Institute: Why Proposed Tax Shift is Wrong for Nebraska
• By ITEP Staff
The tax package designed to lower property taxes paid to local political subdivisions would increase the tax burden on low- and middle-income working families and make it increasingly difficult for cities, counties and schools to provide the services that Nebraskans expect.
State Rundown 3/28: Tax Cut Madness, But Our Brackets Bet on Tax Fairness
• By ITEP Staff
While madness is typically reserved for basketball in March, several high-profile, regressive tax cuts are making their way through state legislatures this week...
State Rundown 3/20: Investments Over Cuts
• By ITEP Staff
Over the past week Utah continued its slow march toward a more inequitable tax code...
State Rundown 3/14: Sessions are Heating Up
• By ITEP Staff
Many state legislative sessions are in the final stretch...
State Rundown 2/28: States Keep Busy While Washington Stalls
• By ITEP Staff
State legislative sessions are in full swing with New Jersey and Oklahoma both particularly active this week...
State Rundown 2/22: Some Top-Heavy Tax Cut Proposals are Getting the Chop
• By ITEP Staff
With many state legislatures now in full swing with activity heating up, some tax cut proposals have lost steam...
State Rundown 2/14: Our Love Language is Taxes
• By ITEP Staff
As many of you may know, we love taxes, along with the many great things they provide for our communities...
State Rundown 2/8: Flowers, Chocolates, and Tax Cuts for the Wealthy?
• By ITEP Staff
While we were hoping to get progressive tax policy wins for Valentine’s Day, many state lawmakers have another idea in mind...
State Rundown 2/1: Black History Month Begins as Tax Debates Heat Up Nationwide
• By ITEP Staff
This week the showdown between the Kansas legislature and governor continued as Gov. Kelly vetoed the legislature’s latest attempt to pass a flat personal income tax. Elsewhere, the focus is on doing more for working families through proposals to expand refundable credits in Maryland and adding a millionaire tax bracket in Rhode Island. Meanwhile, there’s […]
State Rundown 1/26: Wealth Taxes Drawing Interest Early in Legislative Sessions
• By ITEP Staff
Bills are moving and state legislative sessions are picking up across the country, giving elected officials the opportunity to consider two distinct paths when it comes to tax policy...
