ITEP State Rundown
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blog November 20, 2024 State Rundown 11/20: Some Budgets and Tax Proposals Fail to Defy Gravity, Fall Short
This week, there are high-profile budget and tax debates at both the state and local levels. The Louisiana legislature continues to debate Gov. Jeff Landry’s deeply regressive tax package in… -
blog November 7, 2024 State Rundown 11/07: Election Week and New Special Sessions
Tax policy results are mixed across the country as many voters weigh in on state and local ballot measures. For example, Washington state voted to maintain its new progressive tax… -
blog October 24, 2024 State Rundown 10/24: Tricks, Treats, and Tax Policy
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is proposing a regressive tax reform package that would enact a flat personal and corporate income tax while expanding the state’s sales tax base and eliminating certain exemptions to make up for a portion of the lost revenue. West Virginia continues to chip away at its personal income tax, one of the state’s few progressive revenue options. And advocates in New York are rallying around a package of progressive tax legislation that would tax capital gains at higher rates, enact higher income tax brackets on multi-millionaires, and tax unrealized capital gains of billionaires.
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blog October 10, 2024 State Rundown 10/10: More Special Sessions, More Proposed Tax Cuts
This week several states are getting an early start at writing new tax policy in special sessions. In West Virginia, the legislature has come to an agreement with Gov. Justice… -
blog September 18, 2024 State Rundown 9/18: Special Tax Session Results? “Reply Hazy, Try Again”
As the dust settles…
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blog September 5, 2024 State Rundown 9/5: Property Tax Policy Continues to Make Headlines
Property tax bills are undeniably a concern for many low- and moderate-income households across the nation…
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blog August 8, 2024 State Rundown 8/8: States Laying the Groundwork for Future Tax Battles
Whether they’re in a special session, gearing up for one, or prepping for 2025, states around the country are focusing on important tax fights…
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blog July 25, 2024 State Rundown 7/25: Summertime Hits Different in Different States
State lawmakers will have a lot to discuss when they compare notes on how they spent their summer vacations this year…
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blog July 11, 2024 State Rundown 7/11: Mansion Taxes in the Spotlight
While Massachusetts legislators recently dropped a real estate transfer tax from their major housing bill, the District of Columbia council sent a budget to the mayor that includes a mansion tax that would increase the tax rate on properties valued over $2.5 million. Meanwhile, lawmakers in New Jersey and South Carolina continue to, respectively, raise and reduce needed revenues.
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blog June 26, 2024 State Rundown 6/26: Summer Special Sessions Are In, Anti-tax Ballot Initiatives Out
Many families are heading out on summer vacations, but legislators across the country are heading back to statehouses for special sessions…
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blog June 13, 2024 State Rundown 6/13: Decisions are falling into place, but some states will come back for more
State budgets are falling into place as lawmakers near the end of their legislative sessions…
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blog June 6, 2024 State Rundown 6/6: A Tale of Two Tax Laws
This week, it was the best of times or, in some cases, the worst of times for tax policy in two different states…
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blog May 30, 2024 State Rundown 5/30: Sessions Are In for Summer
Legislative sessions across the country are still very much in for summer, which means more pencils, more budgets, and more tax plans…
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blog May 22, 2024 State Rundown 5/22: When One Legislative Session Closes, Another Opens
State legislatures are wrapping up, but don’t stray too far from your state capital or you’ll miss out on the action…
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blog May 15, 2024 State Rundown 5/15: The Merry Merry Month of May(be)
Uncertainty abounds in state tax debates lately…
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blog May 9, 2024 State Rundown 5/9: Special Sessions in the Air
This week, special sessions with major tax implications are in the air…
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blog May 2, 2024 State Rundown 5/2: Vetoes and New Major Tax Proposals
This week, many states took steps toward enacting tax cuts…
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blog April 24, 2024 State Rundown 4/24: It’s Crunch Time
Many state legislative sessions are wrapping up…
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blog April 17, 2024 State Rundown 4/17: Tax Cut Proposals and the Consequences of Bad Tax Cuts
Happy (belated) Tax Day!
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blog April 3, 2024 State Rundown 4/3: Some States Buck the Trend on Foolish Tax Policy
This week tax cuts were debated across the upper Midwest…
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blog March 28, 2024 State Rundown 3/28: Tax Cut Madness, But Our Brackets Bet on Tax Fairness
While madness is typically reserved for basketball in March, several high-profile, regressive tax cuts are making their way through state legislatures this week…
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blog March 20, 2024 State Rundown 3/20: Investments Over Cuts
Over the past week Utah continued its slow march toward a more inequitable tax code…
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blog March 14, 2024 State Rundown 3/14: Sessions are Heating Up
Many state legislative sessions are in the final stretch…
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blog March 6, 2024 State Rundown 3/6: Tax Cuts Aren’t Forever, or for Evers
Anti-tax interests finally found the end of the tax cutting appetite in a few states this week…
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blog February 28, 2024 State Rundown 2/28: States Keep Busy While Washington Stalls
State legislative sessions are in full swing with New Jersey and Oklahoma both particularly active this week…