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March 20, 2024Eliminating Income Taxes Would Be an Expensive Giveaway
Governors and legislative leaders in a dozen states have made calls to fully eliminate their taxes on personal or corporate income, after many states already deeply slashed them over the…
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February 7, 2022One Voice: Eliminating Individual Income Tax is Bad for Mississippi
House Bill 531 would eliminate the state individual income tax. Eliminating the income tax is bad for Mississippi, especially the state’s working families, communities of color, and retirees. While some…
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January 19, 2022Mississippi Is the Latest in a String of States Pursuing Short-Sighted, Top-Heavy Tax Cuts
Not only is Mississippi's latest tax proposal deeply inequitable, the state simply cannot afford it.
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August 25, 2021Eliminating the State Income Tax Would Wreak Havoc on Mississippi
History has repeatedly shown that such policies harm state economies, dismantle basic public services, and exacerbate tax inequities. -
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August 17, 2021One Voice: Who Pays, Mississippi? An Overview of State Tax Policy and Racial Equity Impacts
Historic and current injustices, both in public policy and in society more broadly, have resulted in vast disparities in income across race and ethnicity in Mississippi. State and local tax… -
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March 16, 2021One Voice Mississippi: Bill Analysis: House Bill 1439: Tax Proposal Moves State Away from a Better, More Equitable Mississippi
Mississippi’s House of Representatives recently passed House Bill 1439 (“the Mississippi Tax Freedom Act of 2021”). The House passed the 300-page bill less than 24 hours after they introduced it…
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March 15, 2021Trickle-Down Myths Swamp Tax Policy Debates in Mississippi and West Virginia
Recent proposals in both Mississippi and West Virginia seek to pare back, and ultimately eliminate, each state’s income tax while shifting the responsibility of funding services even more onto low-… -
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January 24, 2020GOP Legacy on IRS Administration: Auditing Mississippi, not Microsoft
Money doesn’t buy happiness—but it can buy immunity from the reach of Uncle Sam. The IRS is outgunned in cases against corporate giants because that’s how Republican leaders want it… -
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November 8, 2017State Rundown 11/8: Online Sales Tax Fight and Tax Subsidy Absurdity Go National
Internet sales tax fairness efforts gained momentum this week as most states joined together to encourage the US Supreme Court to allow them to collect taxes on online sales. Meanwhile,…
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