State leaders in Massachusetts and Washington are learning it’s hard to predict how much money their taxes on millionaires and billionaires will rake in.
Aidan Davis
Aidan Davis works closely with policymakers, legislative staff, and state organizations across the country to advance policy solutions that aim to achieve equitable and sustainable state and local tax systems. Much of her research focuses on tax credits for lower-income families and state tax measures to improve revenue adequacy.
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media mention June 20, 2024 Pluribus News: The Volatility of Taxing the Rich
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media mention March 4, 2024 Route Fifty: States Move to Cut Grocery Taxes
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday signed a bill to eliminate the state’s sales tax on groceries. With the 4.5% tax gone, that leaves 11 states that impose a grocery tax—a number that is swiftly shrinking. Stitt called it the largest single-year tax cut in state history. Oklahoma will see more than $415 million less in revenue a year.
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media mention February 12, 2024 Center for Public Integrity: More Tax Cuts Put States’ Revenue At Risk
At least a dozen proposals for income tax cuts that would primarily benefit wealthy residents and big companies are already on the table for state legislatures to consider in 2024 — and… -
media mention January 4, 2024 Stateline: State Lawmakers Seek to Limit Property Tax Increases as Home Values Soar
Property taxes are rising along with real estate prices — particularly in the Mountain West. Read more. -
media mention October 25, 2023 Stateline: Blue and Red States Slash Taxes Despite Warnings of Hard Times Ahead
Since 2021, half the states have cut personal income tax rates. Read more. -
media mention October 1, 2023 Capital & Main: Some States Are Fighting Rising Child Poverty With Tax Credits
New Mexico is one of 10 states that have created or expanded child tax credits after Congress let a federal program expire. Read more. -
media mention July 28, 2023 Charlotte Observer: NC Republicans Aren’t Worried About the Effects of Tax Cuts. You Should Be.
In mid-summer, the state capital is experiencing an odd mix of anxiety and content. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is warning that plans by Republican state lawmakers to expand private school… -
media mention July 1, 2023 Mountain State Spotlight: Tax Cuts, Low-Balled Estimates and Volatile Revenues: Inside West Virginia’s $1.8 Billion Budget Surplus
Gov. Jim Justice has used the state’s budget surplus as proof of his business skills as he runs for the U.S. Senate. But the surplus is built on unpredictable revenue… -
media mention May 24, 2023 Governing: What’s Driving This Year’s Ambitious Tax Cuts?
Revenues are slowing but lawmakers, at least in red states, have continued to enact major tax cuts this year. Read more. -
media mention April 25, 2023 The New Republic: The Future of the Expanded Child Tax Credit Is With the States (for Now)
Congress failed to renew the wildly successful measure, but state lawmakers across the country are working to bring it back. Read more. -
media mention February 9, 2023 FiveThirtyEight: Congress’s U-Turn Has States Thinking About Giving Parents Cash
Last year, Congress walked away from what looked like one of the most effective fixes for child poverty in a generation. Now, state legislators are trying to walk it back. Lawmakers in… -
media mention February 2, 2023 States Newsroom: States Take Heat for Spending Federal Relief Funds on Tax Cuts, Prisons
As states plan how they’ll spend the $25 billion remaining in federal COVID relief funds, some also are facing criticism and renewed scrutiny over how they allocated money already received… -
media mention January 10, 2023 Governing: The Biggest Issues to Watch in 2023
State coffers are overflowing, but inflation could put a pinch on spending plans and tax cuts. The labor market remains tight just when the demand for more teachers is skyrocketing.… -
media mention December 20, 2022 Hawaii Public Radio: Report: State could slash child poverty in half with new tax credit
The child tax credit has been available at the federal level since 1997. Before 2021, families were able to take advantage of a $2,000 credit per child. Under the American… -
media mention December 15, 2022 Pluribus News: States Advance Child Tax Credits as Congress Deliberates
Lawmakers in Connecticut, New York and several other states want to expand tax breaks for families with children next year, inspired by a 2021 federal tax credit that dramatically reduced… -
media mention December 3, 2022 Mississippi Public Radio: State Child Tax Credit Could Benefit Mississippi
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media mention August 23, 2022 The New Republic: How Red States Use Regressive Grocery Taxes to Feed the Rich
Conservative state legislatures are using pandemic-era surpluses to give tax cuts for the wealthy while maintaining unfair flat taxes that punish the poor. Read more. -
media mention August 18, 2022 The Progressive: Finding Cash for Kids
Congress failed to extend the expanded Child Tax Credit, which cut childhood poverty by nearly a third. Now, states are adopting their own versions. Read more. -
media mention May 17, 2022 The New York Times: State Lawmakers, Step Up and Govern
Below is an excerpt of a letter to the editor by Aidan Davis: The overarching theme that ties most of them together is that they are a default reaction among… -
media mention March 28, 2022 New York Times: What Retirement Means for Your Taxes
Many states exempt retirement income, although the specifics vary widely. Eight states have no personal income tax, but among those that do, about three-quarters fully exempt Social Security benefits from… -
media mention February 10, 2022 CNBC: 1 in 3 young adults will see an average $800 tax credit boost this year
For the 37% of workers 19 to 24 who are now eligible to receive the credit, the expansion will mean an average boost of $820, according to a study from… -
media mention February 4, 2022 Newsweek: States’ Pursuit of Top-Heavy Tax Cuts Is Disconnected from Reality
The following is an excerpt of an opEd by Aidan Davis, ITEP senior policy analyst, and Neva Butkus, policy analyst, published on Feb. 4 in Newsweek: One report after another… -
media mention February 3, 2022 CBS News: Millions of low-income Americans eligible for tax refund boost this year
Meanwhile, the bigger credit comes at a welcome time for many Americans, as roaring inflation consumes most of low-wage workers’ pay gains. “While these folks without dependent children may not… -
media mention September 14, 2021 Boston Now: Housing, commuting and medical care pushes 9.4% of Bay Staters into poverty, Census data shows
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy also pointed to the stimulus payments as a reason why there was no commensurate spike in poverty in 2020 to go with the… -
media mention September 14, 2021 Houston Chronicle: Stimulus checks saved many from poverty, Census data show
“At the start of the health and economic crisis, we knew that we needed deep government investments to alleviate widespread hardship,” said Aidan Davis, a senior policy analyst at the…