Carl Davis

Carl Davis is the research director at ITEP, where he has worked since 2008. Carl works on a wide range of issues related to both state and federal tax policy. He has advised policymakers, researchers, and advocates on tax policy issues in nearly every state. Much of his work relates to the link between taxes and economic growth, and the shortcomings of dynamic scoring and supply-side economic theories.

• report   August 13, 2010

  ITEP’s Testimony on TRAC Sales and Use Tax Proposal

  My testimony today offers several broad thoughts on the implications of the proposals for sales and use tax reform laid out so far by the Tax Realignment Commission (TRAC). The…
• report   November 18, 2009

  Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States 3rd Edition

  Who Pays? is a comprehensive analysis of state and local tax systems in all fifty states. The study, released on November 18, 2009, shows that on average, state and local…