ITEP State Rundown

State lawmakers will have a lot to discuss when they compare notes on how they spent their summer vacations this year...

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.

Many families are heading out on summer vacations, but legislators across the country are heading back to statehouses for special sessions...

State budgets are falling into place as lawmakers near the end of their legislative sessions...

This week, it was the best of times or, in some cases, the worst of times for tax policy in two different states...

Legislative sessions across the country are still very much in for summer, which means more pencils, more budgets, and more tax plans...

State legislatures are wrapping up, but don’t stray too far from your state capital or you’ll miss out on the action...

Uncertainty abounds in state tax debates lately...

This week, special sessions with major tax implications are in the air...

This week, many states took steps toward enacting tax cuts...

Many state legislative sessions are wrapping up...

Happy (belated) Tax Day!

This week tax cuts were debated across the upper Midwest...

While madness is typically reserved for basketball in March, several high-profile, regressive tax cuts are making their way through state legislatures this week...

Over the past week Utah continued its slow march toward a more inequitable tax code...

Many state legislative sessions are in the final stretch...

Anti-tax interests finally found the end of the tax cutting appetite in a few states this week...

State legislative sessions are in full swing with New Jersey and Oklahoma both particularly active this week...

With many state legislatures now in full swing with activity heating up, some tax cut proposals have lost steam...

As many of you may know, we love taxes, along with the many great things they provide for our communities...

While we were hoping to get progressive tax policy wins for Valentine’s Day, many state lawmakers have another idea in mind...

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 […]

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...

Tax policy themes have begun to crop up in states as governors give their yearly addresses and legislators lay out their plans for the 2024 legislative season...

States got a wake-up call this week as ITEP released the latest edition of our flagship Who Pays? report...