Newsworks: Pa. sales tax can be expanded in an equitable way

“A third group was rightly concerned that the sales tax places too much of a burden on those with low incomes. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the lowest-income 20 percent of Pennsylvania families pay an average of 5.8 percent of their income in sales tax. The top 20 percent, by contrast, pay less than 2.3 percent of their income in sales tax. And families in the top 1 percent pay only 0.6 percent of their incomes in sales tax.”

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