Press Herald: Think Tank Says Maine Has Reached ‘Tax Fairness’ Milestone

The center cited a 2018 report by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy that said only five states and the District of Columbia had tax codes in which the bottom 20 percent paid a lower average effective tax rate than the top 1 percent. It said legislative changes this year in Maine will allow it to join that short list. Read more