North Dakota
2024 State Tax Ballot Questions: Voters to Weigh in on Tax Changes Big and Small
October 17, 2024 • By Jon Whiten
As we approach November’s election, voters in several states will be weighing in on tax policy changes. The outcomes will impact the equity of state and local tax systems and the adequacy of the revenue those systems are able to raise to fund public services.
North Dakota: Who Pays? 7th Edition
January 9, 2024 • By ITEP Staff
North Dakota Download PDF All figures and charts show 2024 tax law in North Dakota, presented at 2023 income levels. Senior taxpayers are excluded for reasons detailed in the methodology. Our analysis includes nearly all (99.9 percent) state and local tax revenue collected in North Dakota. State and local tax shares of family income Top […]
North Dakota Senate Should Put the Freeze on House Tax-Cut Plan
March 11, 2019 • By Dylan Grundman O'Neill
Lawmakers in Bismarck were treated last weekend to the largest single day of snowfall the city has ever seen. As state senators begin weighing a bill recently passed by the House that would replace the state's income taxes with oil revenue, they might want to reflect on how similar oil revenue is to the snow: although both are in extreme abundance right now, both are volatile and unpredictable and will melt away sooner than later. Lawmakers should also consider how eliminating the state's income taxes might warm the hearts of wealthier North Dakotans but would leave most North Dakota families…
North Dakota: Who Pays? 6th Edition
October 17, 2018 • By ITEP Staff
NORTH DAKOTA Read as PDF NORTH DAKOTA STATE AND LOCAL TAXES Taxes as Share of Family Income Top 20% Income Group Lowest 20% Second 20% Middle 20% Fourth 20% Next 15% Next 4% Top 1% Income Range Less than $27,800 $27,800 to $43,600 $43,600 to $66,900 $66,900 to $117,600 $117,600 to $245,300 $245,300 to $639,900 […]
Tax Cuts 2.0 – North Dakota
September 26, 2018 • By ITEP Staff
The $2 trillion 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) includes several provisions set to expire at the end of 2025. Now, GOP leaders have introduced a bill informally called “Tax Cuts 2.0” or “Tax Reform 2.0,” which would make the temporary provisions permanent. And they falsely claim that making these provisions permanent will benefit […]
How the Final GOP-Trump Tax Bill Would Affect North Dakota Residents’ Federal Taxes
December 16, 2017 • By ITEP Staff
The final tax bill that Republicans in Congress are poised to approve would provide most of its benefits to high-income households and foreign investors while raising taxes on many low- and middle-income Americans. The bill would go into effect in 2018 but the provisions directly affecting families and individuals would all expire after 2025, with […]
How the House and Senate Tax Bills Would Affect North Dakota Residents’ Federal Taxes
December 6, 2017 • By ITEP Staff
The House passed its “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” November 16th and the Senate passed its version December 2nd. Both bills would raise taxes on many low- and middle-income families in every state and provide the wealthiest Americans and foreign investors substantial tax cuts, while adding more than $1.4 trillion to the deficit over ten years. The graph below shows that both bills are skewed to the richest 1 percent of North Dakota residents.
How the Senate Tax Bill Would Affect North Dakota Residents’ Federal Taxes
November 14, 2017 • By ITEP Staff
The Senate tax bill released last week would raise taxes on some families while bestowing immense benefits on wealthy Americans and foreign investors. In North Dakota, 44 percent of the federal tax cuts would go to the richest 5 percent of residents, and 2 percent of households would face a tax increase, once the bill is fully implemented.
How the House Tax Proposal Would Affect North Dakota Residents’ Federal Taxes
November 6, 2017 • By ITEP Staff
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was introduced on November 2 in the House of Representatives, includes some provisions that raise taxes and some that cut taxes, so the net effect for any particular family’s federal tax bill depends on their situation. Some of the provisions that benefit the middle class — like lower tax rates, an increased standard deduction, and a $300 tax credit for each adult in a household — are designed to expire or become less generous over time. Some of the provisions that benefit the wealthy, such as the reduction and eventual repeal of the estate…
GOP-Trump Tax Framework Would Provide Richest One Percent in North Dakota with 55.8 Percent of the State’s Tax Cuts
October 4, 2017 • By ITEP Staff
The “tax reform framework” released by the Trump administration and congressional Republican leaders on September 27 would not benefit everyone in North Dakota equally. The richest one percent of North Dakota residents would receive 55.8 percent of the tax cuts within the state under the framework in 2018. These households are projected to have an income of at least $693,800 next year. The framework would provide them an average tax cut of $111,620 in 2018, which would increase their income by an average of 6.5 percent.
In North Dakota 44.5 Percent of Trump’s Proposed Tax Cuts Go to People Making More than $1 Million
August 17, 2017 • By ITEP Staff
A tiny fraction of the North Dakota population (0.5 percent) earns more than $1 million annually. But this elite group would receive 44.5 percent of the tax cuts that go to North Dakota residents under the tax proposals from the Trump administration. A much larger group, 42.2 percent of the state, earns less than $45,000, but would receive just 3.9 percent of the tax cuts.
Trump Tax Proposals Would Provide Richest One Percent in North Dakota with 51.3 Percent of the State’s Tax Cuts
July 20, 2017 • By ITEP Staff
Earlier this year, the Trump administration released some broadly outlined proposals to overhaul the federal tax code. Households in North Dakota would not benefit equally from these proposals. The richest one percent of the state’s taxpayers are projected to make an average income of $1,714,800 in 2018.
Grand Forks Herald: Higher Gas Tax Needed for Safe, Efficient Highways
January 5, 2015
he Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has proposed the most logical and realistic analysis of and recommendation on this tax issue. The full report should be reviewed by everyone, but especially by our legislators. Here are the first few paragraphs from this very comprehensive report: “The gas tax is the single most important source […]
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: North Dakota’s Measure 2 is Imbalanced and Would Harm Efforts to Secure State’s Economic Future
January 15, 2013
North Dakota’s proposed Measure 2, a major change to the state’s income tax that will appear on the November ballot, would be detrimental to the state for three principal reasons: 1. Measure 2 is risky and short-sighted. 2. Measure 2 is imbalanced and would prevent broadbased tax changes that could benefit all North Dakota families. […]
North Dakota Economic Policy Project: Proposed Rate Cuts Would Make North Dakota Tax System More Unfair
January 14, 2013
“North Dakota Legislators are proposing nearly a half billion dollars in tax cuts, reductions and exemptions this session. Some of those tax breaks may be warranted, but they should be targeted primarily to North Dakotans working to sustain or achieve a middle class life.”
North Dakota Economic Policy Project: Revised Analysis of 2011 Individual Income Tax Reductions
January 14, 2013
“North Dakota Legislators passed nearly a half billion dollars in tax cuts, reductions and exemptions this session. Some of those tax breaks may have been warranted, but they should have been targeted primarily to North Dakotans working to sustain or achieve a middle class life. One tax cut passed by the 2011 Legislature reduced the […]
Minot Daily News: To tax or not to tax
January 7, 2013
(PDF of the Original Post) By JILL SCHRAMM, Staff Writer [email protected] Taxpayers will be in a position to measure the success of the Legislature’s property-tax relief package when tax statements appear in their mail in a few weeks. But already, there’s strong feeling among many legislators and others that more needs to be done to […]
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