Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP)

ITEP State Rundown

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State Rundown 2/5: Icy Roads Do Not Slow Tax Policy Debates

• By ITEP Staff

Despite wintry conditions across much of the country, that hasn’t stopped state lawmakers from debating major tax policy changes.

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State Rundown 1/28: State Tax Cutting Plans Face Scrutiny

• By ITEP Staff

As state legislative sessions ramp up across the country, property taxes are one of many issues dominating tax policy conversations in statehouses.

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State Rundown 1/22: Cautious Tone Noticeable in Most Statehouses

• By ITEP Staff

Most states are adopting a very cautious approach so far this year as legislators begin their sessions and governors make their annual addresses, thanks to ongoing economic uncertainty and federal retrenchment.

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State Rundown 1/14: New Year Brings New Resolutions for Funding Key Priorities

• By ITEP Staff

State governors are beginning to lay out their top priorities as legislatures reconvene in statehouses around the country.

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State Rundown 1/7: New Year, New Opportunities for Progressive Revenue

• By ITEP Staff

As we kick off a new year, several states are facing revenue shortfalls. Some lawmakers are approaching the challenge with sustainable and equitable solutions.

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State Rundown 12/10: ‘Tis the Season to Reclaim Lost Revenue

• By ITEP Staff

property tax debates are taking place throughout the nation.

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State Rundown 12/3: Property Tax Cuts and Deficits

• By ITEP Staff

States are increasingly facing difficult choices as revenues stagnate and deficits come clearer into focus.

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State Rundown 11/24: States Say ‘No Thank You’ to Federal Tax Cuts Reducing State Revenue

• By ITEP Staff

Lawmakers in two more states have wisely said “no thank you” to federal tax cuts that would have flowed through to their state tax codes and undermined funding for their priorities

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State Rundown 11/13: States Tackle Impending Deficits, Pennsylvania Secures an EITC

• By ITEP Staff

Revenue forecasts look increasingly grim as states anticipate shortfalls due to the slowing economy and impacts of the new federal tax law.

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State Rundown 11/5: Voters Say “Yes!” to Public Investments

• By ITEP Staff

Despite being an off-year election, voters made a call for shared public investments at the polls.

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State Rundown 10/27: As Temperatures Cool Tax Policy Heats Up

• By ITEP Staff

States across the nation are debating how best to respond to costly new federal tax cuts.

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State Rundown 10/1: State and Local Governments Doing the Opposite of Shutting Down

• By ITEP Staff

State and local officials are staying very busy by considering a dizzying amount of reversals.

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State Rundown 9/18: Lawmakers Confront Revenue Loss from Federal Policy Changes

• By ITEP Staff

Some states are trying to avoid revenue loss while others are welcoming it and doubling down.

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State Rundown 9/4: Colorado Tackles Offshore Corporate Tax Avoidance, Paves Way for State Conformity Best Practices

• By ITEP Staff

Despite an increasingly bleak state revenue outlook, state lawmakers across the country continue to prioritize regressive tax cuts.

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State Rundown 8/20: States to Face Serious Conformity, Revenue Issues as Summer Ends

• By ITEP Staff

While tax news has slowed as summer comes to an end, there are rumblings beneath the surface that could be an inauspicious sign of the times ahead for states and state budgets.

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State Rundown 8/6: Tax Policy is Hot in the Middle of Summer

• By ITEP Staff

As states prepare for the revenue loss and disruption resulting from the federal tax bill, tax policy is being considered in legislatures across the country.

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State Rundown 7/24: States Begin Preparing for Federal Megabill Fallout

• By ITEP Staff

All eyes in statehouses in recent weeks have been on federal budget negotiations, and now that the “megabill” has passed, they are focused in on their own budgets in search of ways to cope with the enormous consequences coming their way. All states will see fewer federal dollars flowing through their coffers, higher needs due […]

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State Rundown 7/8: State Tax Cuts Continue Despite Federal Megabill Passing

• By ITEP Staff

The last states are wrapping up legislative sessions, and some are crossing the finish line with major income tax cuts.

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State Rundown 6/25: The Numbers Don’t Lie, State Budget Edition

• By ITEP Staff

Many states are reaching their end-of-June budget deadlines, and major tax policy changes look to have big implications as states are forced, per federal policy, to do more with less.

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State Rundown 6/20: Federal tax policy heats up, states wrap sessions and weigh impacts

• By ITEP Staff

As state legislative sessions come to a close, decisions on tax policy are being made. Several southern states have cut taxes, while the northeast is making some more measured reforms.

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State Rundown 6/11: States in The Eye of a Fiscal Hurricane?

• By ITEP Staff

State legislatures are enjoying a relatively quiet period right now, though it is merely a temporary calm before the storm of the federal tax and budget debate begins raging again.

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State Rundown 6/5: States Wrap Sessions, Some Prepare for Fiscal Uncertainty

• By ITEP Staff

States use the final hours of their legislative sessions to address deficits and preserve revenue in preparation for the times ahead.

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State Rundown 5/21: Big and Not-So Beautiful Tax Cut Bills Abound in States

• By ITEP Staff

As a sprawling, regressive tax bill continues to take shape at the federal level, many states are moving forward with major tax cut proposals of their own.

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State Rundown 5/15: State Tax Debates Carry On in the Midst of Chaotic Federal Tax Landscape

• By ITEP Staff

Even as most major headlines have been about the ever-changing landscape of federal tax policy, the latest “ideas of the week," and now the House tax bill, state tax policy continues to be a priority for lawmakers.

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State Rundown 5/1: State Tax Debates Wrapping Up, and Just Beginning

• By ITEP Staff

The rampant uncertainty this year extends far beyond the national economy and federal policy, as many state legislatures are declaring their tax and budget debates finished, and just getting started, sometimes in the same breath.