Connecticut
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ITEP Work in Action March 15, 2016 Connecticut Voices for Children: Revenue Options are Crucial to Maintaining Public Investments that Promote Prosperity
In confronting the financial crisis looming over state budget decisions, the common-sense choice for Connecticut should be a balanced approach that includes revenue, rather than a cuts-only approach that threatens… -
media mention February 22, 2016 Hartford Courant: Letters ‘New Economic Reality’ Requires Fairer Taxes
“According to the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Connecticut has the 26th most unfair state and local tax system in the country. According to the institute’s calculations, Connecticut’s… -
media mention February 22, 2016 Hartford Courant: Teachers Call For Taxing Wealthy, Not Cutting Programs
“Basing its comments on what it said are figures from the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the union said that Connecticut households with incomes in the top… -
media mention December 18, 2015 Fairfield Citizen: State aims for winning hand in high-stakes game to keep GE
“The real problem of giving into corporate demands like these is you’re basically inviting other companies to make this same threat,” said Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on… -
ITEP Work in Action August 11, 2015 Connecticut Voices for Children: Impact of the Final FY 2016 Budget on Children and Families
The State of Connecticut’s final FY 16 budget, improved from earlier proposals, still balances on children and families’ finite resources, this analysis finds. While funding the “Children’s Budget” – state… -
media mention July 24, 2015 CNN Money: States Raise Sales, Cigarette Taxes
Faced with a $1 billion budget gap, Connecticut this year adopted an array of tax changes, including increasing the top income tax rate to 6.9% and adding a 6.99% rate… -
media mention July 22, 2015 CNBC: Is Your State a Gas Tax Winner–Or Loser?
As states from Connecticut to California scramble to find money to fix crumbling highways, Congress once again is expected this week to put a short-term patch on the nearly insolvent… -
media mention July 6, 2015 Planetizen: State Gas Tax Changes Effective July 1: Six Up; One Down
Carl Davis, Research Director of the Institute on Tax and Economic Policy (ITEP) writes where gas taxes used to fund transportation infrastructure increased, if only by decimal points, and about… -
media mention June 3, 2015 WNPR: Hold On: Why Don’t Corporations in Connecticut Pay (More) Tax?
Matt Gardner is director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, and he explained it this way: “If you think it’s wrong for companies to be able to shift… -
ITEP Work in Action March 18, 2015 Connecticut Voices for Children: Funding Our Future: Child and Family Friendly Revenue Options
An analysis by the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) of Washington, D.C. found that adjusting top rates to the levels in the table below would impact only two… -
ITEP Work in Action February 9, 2015 Connecticut Voices for Children: Families First, Prosperity for All: Making Connecticut’s Tax and Benefit System More Family-Friendly
Connecticut’s tax system is uniquely unfriendly to families. Connecticut is one of only two states with an income tax that does not offer tax credits or exemptions to adjust for… -
media mention January 16, 2015 Greenwich Time: State ranks 26th for regressive taxes
Connecticut ranks 26 in a study that judges the fairness of state tax systems. According to the study, states with regressive tax structures have negative tax inequality indexes, meaning that… -
media mention January 15, 2015 The Day: Connecticut ranks in middle for fair taxes
Connecticut is right in the middle in a ranking of the 50 states’ tax fairness, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Still, the… -
media mention November 17, 2014 Hartford Business Journal: Legislative Panel Aims to Rethink CT’s Tax Code
But if the rich feel slighted, consider this: A study last year by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that lower- and middle-income residents pay a higher percentage… -
media mention August 20, 2014 The Day: Tax-Free Shopping Starts Sunday in Connecticut
Connecticut’s annual sales-tax holiday coinciding with back-to-school shopping kicks off Sunday and runs through Aug. 23. The tax holiday primarily applies to clothing and footwear costing less than $300 per… -
ITEP Work in Action May 21, 2014 Connecticut Voices for Children: Making Children Visible in Connecticut’s Tax Code
This issue brief from the Fiscal Policy Center at Connecticut Voices for Children identifies a feature of the Connecticut tax system that effectively penalizes households with children, relative to households… -
ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2014 Connecticut Voices for Children: Pro-Family Tax Reform in Connecticut: A Roadmap for Improvement
This report from the Fiscal Policy Center at Connecticut Voices for Children compares Connecticut’s tax system to those of other states and finds: Connecticut is nearly alone among states in… -
media mention March 21, 2014 The Day: Six firms paid less than 3% in state taxes
(Original Post) Published 03/21/2014 12:00 AMUpdated 03/20/2014 11:42 PM Six Connecticut-based companies, including General Electric, United Technologies, Northeast Utilities and Aetna, paid state taxes totaling less than 3 percent of… -
media mention August 16, 2013 CT News Junkie: The Important Message of the Sales-Tax Holiday
It’s that time of year again, folks. Not only are my kids gearing up for a much-needed return to school, but sales tax holidays are sprouting up like weeds across the land of the free.
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media mention August 14, 2013 The Middletown Press: States could see millions more in tax revenues with immigration reform
Throughout the past year, Connecticut was faced with tough choices in passing its budget, and it was forced to do so with tens of millions of dollars less in tax revenue than the state would have had if its undocumented immigrants had been part of the mainstream population.
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media mention July 10, 2013 New Haven Register: Reconfigure tax system for transportation
(Original Post) Published: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 Some middle-class and wealthy Connecticut people point to government aid programs and services and say that poor people get a lot for nothing.… -
ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2013 Connecticut Voices for Children: Who Pays Taxes in Connecticut?
This brief finds that Connecticut’s wealthiest residents pay a smaller share of their income in state and local taxes than middle-income and low-income residents. Read the Full Report -
ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2013 Connecticut Voices for Children: Lower Than New York’s for Everyone but the Poor
One sometimes hears that recent state income tax increases on the rich could cause them to leave Connecticut for New York and points south. Academic research has shown that taxes… -
media mention April 22, 2013 Hartford Courant: Rich Paying More Broadens Opportunity For All
(Original Post) April 19, 2013|By WADE GIBSON | COMMENTARY, The Hartford Courant Most people would agree that Connecticut’s wealthiest residents should pay a greater share of their income in taxes… -
media mention March 13, 2013 The Hartford Courant: Cutting Tax Credit Socks It To Hard-Working Poor
(Original Post) March 11, 2013|By JIM HORAN | OP-ED, The Hartford Courant Just two years ago, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed, and Connecticut adopted, a state Earned Income Tax Credit,…