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August 25, 2021Eliminating the State Income Tax Would Wreak Havoc on Mississippi
Mississippi lawmakers are holding two days of hearings this week on eliminating or cutting the individual income tax after similar proposals failed this spring. It’s difficult to understand the logic…
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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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ITEP Work in Action
July 21, 2017Hope Policy Institute: Mississippi’s Wealthiest Get the Most Benefit under New Federal Tax Cut Proposal
New research from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) looks at the potential effects of a tax cut proposal from the Trump Administration on families in the 50… -
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June 28, 2017State Rundown 6/28: States Scramble to Finish Budgets Before July Deadlines
This week, several states attempt to wrap up their budget debates before new fiscal years (and holiday vacations) begin in July. Lawmakers reached at least short-term agreement on budgets in… -
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March 21, 2017Hope Policy Institute: Everyone Pays Taxes, Including Undocumented Immigrants
According to a new report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), it is estimated that undocumented immigrants in Mississippi pay almost $22,684,000 in state and local taxes.…
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