South Dakota
USA Today: The most tax-friendly states for business
October 15, 2013
(Original Post) Charley Blaine, 24/7 Wall St. 11 a.m. EDT October 12, 2013 Taxes are necessary for a functioning government, but according to one group, many states are crippling regional business growth with tax structures that are too expensive or complex. The Tax Foundation’s 2014 State Business Tax Climate Index graded all 50 states based […]
Annual state and local finance data from the Census Bureau are often used to rank states as "low" or "high" tax states based on taxes collected as a share of state personal income. But focusing on a state's overall tax revenues overlooks the fact that taxpayers experience tax systems very differently. In particular, the poorest 20 percent of taxpayers pay a greater share of their income in state and local taxes than any other income group in all but 10 states (including DC). And, in every state, low- income taxpayers pay more as a share of income than the wealthiest…
South Dakota is a “Low Tax State” Overall, But Not for Families Living in Poverty
September 19, 2013 • By Meg Wiehe
Read the Report in PDF Form See all “Low Tax for Who?” states New data from the Census Bureau lend support to South Dakota’s reputation as a “low tax state,” ranking it 50th nationally in taxes collected as a share of personal income, the lowest overall tax state.1 But focusing on the state’s overall tax […]
South Dakota: Should SD repeal the grocery sales tax with a revenue neutral sales tax increase?
August 26, 2013
SD HB1154 proposes lowering state sales tax on certain food items and increasing sales tax on other goods and services in a revenue-neutral exchange. Read the Full Report
PBS: How Low Can They Go? Arthur Laffer Defends Slashing State Income Taxes
August 1, 2013
In this 2012 Making Sen$e report, former Reagan White House economic adviser Arthur Laffer drew his famous curve on a napkin -- just the way he did for the Ford administration -- and explained how it works.
Capital Journal: What South Dakota is doing seems to be working
July 15, 2013
(Original Post) Posted: Sunday, July 14, 2013 10:46 pm David Rookhuyzen Dakota voices As a born-and-raised Arizonan I will always have a special place in my heart for the Grand Canyon State. But I have to say, in the past 10 months I’ve become a little enamored with my new home. South Dakota is certainly […]
Reno News & Review: It happens
May 23, 2013
(Original Post) By Dennis [email protected] This article was published on 05.23.13. Nevada has a crappy tax system. Here’s why. It was sweltering. Januaries in Carson City are cold, of course, but the Nevada Assembly hall was jammed with bodies and television lights. Even on a weekday evening people traveled to the capitol for these occasions. […]
The Times-Picayune: Behind Jindal’s tax plan, an old debate that still rages
April 8, 2013
(Original Post) By Andrew Vanacore, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune In pushing for an end to income taxes in Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal is calling upon an economic theory about taxes and economic growth that is almost four decades old. So you might assume the case for or against “supply-side” or “trickle-down” economics would be about […]
MSNBC: Jindal’s radical tax plan not yet dead
April 4, 2013
(Original Post) By Steve Benen – Wed Apr 3, 2013 11:45 AM EDT It’s been about three months since Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) unveiled his plan to eliminate all income taxes and corporate taxes in the state, replacing the lost revenue through a combination of spending cuts, higher sales taxes, and new business taxes. […]
The Washington Post: Paul Ryan wants to cut income taxes. Bobby Jindal wants to kill them dead.
March 20, 2013
(Original Post) Posted by Dylan Matthews on March 20, 2013 at 11:45 am Most conservative policymakers at the federal level just want to sharply reduce the income tax, not eliminate it entirely. But more and more Republican-controlled states are deciding to go big or go home. So far, Govs. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), Dave Heineman (R-NE), […]
The Advocate: Tax overhaul linked to business rankings
March 11, 2013
(Original Post) By Mark Ballardand Michelle Millhollon Capitol news bureau March 11, 2013 At the top of a “talking points” memo handed to legislators, Gov. Bobby Jindal justifies overhauling the state’s tax system in order to increase the state’s ranking on an index drafted by the Tax Foundation. Stephen Moret, Jindal’s secretary of the state […]
Laffer’s New Job Growth Factoid is All Rhetoric and No Substance
February 27, 2013 • By Carl Davis
A new talking point printed on the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal is proving irresistible to state lawmakers looking for an excuse to reduce or eliminate their states' income taxes: A new analysis by economist Art Laffer for the American Legislative Exchange Council finds that, from 2002 to 2012, 62% of the three million net new jobs in America were created in the nine states without an income tax, though these states account for only about 20% of the national population.
Bristol Herald Courier: Non-wealthy Tennessee families face high tax burdens, report says
February 7, 2013
(Original Post) Posted: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 12:02 pm | Updated: 2:27 pm, Wed Feb 6, 2013. BRISTOL HERALD COURIER Posted on February 6, 2013 by Roger Brown BRISTOL, Tenn. – Poor and middle-class families in Tennessee spend nearly 12 percent and 9 percent, respectively, of their total income on taxes, according to a new […]
The Town Talk: Jindal’s plan to drop state income tax stirs debate
February 5, 2013
Feb 4, 2013 Written by Mike Hasten Gannett Louisiana BATON ROUGE — If legislators agree with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to switch from personal and corporate income taxes, Louisiana would be in line with several states showing job growth. But it could prove to be costly for those not on the high end of the […]
The Philadelphia Post: When it Comes to Taxes in Pennsylvania, It’s Good to be Rich
January 31, 2013
(Original Post) When everybody comes out to vote, (i.e. presidential elections) Pennsylvania’s a blue state. And at least in certain pockets, it behaves much like the northeastern liberal states the surround it, like New Jersey, Maryland, and New York. When it comes to taxation, however, it looks a lot more like Texas or Alabama. According […]
Business Insider: There’s A Reason Bill Gates And Jeff Bezos Both Call Washington State Home
January 31, 2013
(Original Post) Megan Durisin | Jan. 31, 2013, 3:43 PM Why does the wealthiest man in America live in Washington? The answer is in a report released this week by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Washington’s tax system is the most disjointed in the nation, leaving rich residents — including Bill Gates, the […]
Knox News: TN Taxes Hardest on Middle and Low-income Families
January 31, 2013
Nashville, Tennessee – Like most state tax systems, Tennessee takes a much larger share from middle- and low-income families than from wealthy families, according to the fourth edition of Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, released today by the Washington-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) and […]
MSNBC: And the rich pay less
January 30, 2013
(Original Post) By Laura Conaway – Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:05 PM EST Just about every state’s tax system treats the rich better than the poor, writes the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in a new report today. The Institute says the states with the most regressive (read: unfair) tax plans are Washington State, […]
Arkansas Times: Who pays taxes?
January 30, 2013
(Original Post) Posted by Max Brantley on Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:56 AM Arkansas is on the cusp of a Republican-led charge to reshape taxation. Where they don’t want to cut taxes, they want to dramatically reduce the burden on wealthy taxpayers, by reducing or eliminating the tax on unearned income and by reducing […]
Nashville Scene: We’re No. 6 in Unfair Taxes
January 30, 2013
(Original Post) Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:54 PM Tennessee might rank near the bottom nationally in education spending, per capita income and nearly every other quality-of-life category ever devised. But we remain near the top in one measure. Our tax system is really great at sticking it to the […]
Philadelphia Business Journal: Pa. tax system among ‘Terrible 10’ for working families
January 30, 2013
(Original Post) Jan 30, 2013, 1:27pm EST Staff Philadelphia Business Journal Pennsylvania is among the 10 states with the most regressive tax systems in the United States, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy says. The group says families in the state earning less than $19,000 a year pay a higher percentage of their incomes, […]
Philadelphia City Paper: Top 1 percent don’t pay in PA
January 30, 2013
POSTED: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 10:39 AM Follow on Twitter @DanielDenvir Pennsylvania is one of the “Terrible Ten” states with the most regressive tax structures nationwide, hitting the poor hardest while taking the least from the rich, according to a new report from the liberal Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (PBPC) and the Institute on […]
The Hill: State tax systems regressive
January 30, 2013
(Original Post) By Bernie Becker – 01/30/13 07:02 AM ET Practically every state charges a higher share of taxes from lower- and middle-class families than the highest earners, a new study from a liberal-leaning group found. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that the bottom 20 percent of earners paid an effective tax […]
The Omaha World Herald: Other states also target income tax to spur growth
January 18, 2013
By Paul Hammel WORLD-HERALD BUREAU LINCOLN — Nebraska isn’t the only state looking to eliminate state income taxes. Republican leaders in both Louisiana and North Carolina are pushing plans similar to Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman’s pitch — elimination of income taxes on individuals and on corporations to boost their local economies. Other states, including Oklahoma, […]
Roth & Company: How progressive can state taxes be?
January 17, 2013
(Original Post) November 19th, 2009 by Joe Kristan The Iowa Fiscal Partnership has generated some headlines by passing around their take on a new study by The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: Study says Iowa tax system unfair to poor Report: Iowa tax code favors wealthiest residents Report: Iowa tax system hurts low and […]
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