Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP)

ITEP State Rundown

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State Rundown 8/8: States Laying the Groundwork for Future Tax Battles

• By ITEP Staff

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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State Rundown 7/25: Summertime Hits Different in Different States

• By ITEP Staff

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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State Rundown 7/11: Mansion Taxes in the Spotlight

• By ITEP Staff

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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State Rundown 6/26: Summer Special Sessions Are In, Anti-tax Ballot Initiatives Out

• By ITEP Staff

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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State Rundown 6/13: Decisions are falling into place, but some states will come back for more

• By ITEP Staff

State budgets are falling into place as lawmakers near the end of their legislative sessions...

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State Rundown 6/6: A Tale of Two Tax Laws

• By ITEP Staff

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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State Rundown 5/30: Sessions Are In for Summer

• By ITEP Staff

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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State Rundown 5/22: When One Legislative Session Closes, Another Opens

• By ITEP Staff

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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State Rundown 5/15: The Merry Merry Month of May(be)

• By ITEP Staff

Uncertainty abounds in state tax debates lately...

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State Rundown 5/9: Special Sessions in the Air

• By ITEP Staff

This week, special sessions with major tax implications are in the air...

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State Rundown 5/2: Vetoes and New Major Tax Proposals

• By ITEP Staff

This week, many states took steps toward enacting tax cuts...

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State Rundown 4/24: It’s Crunch Time

• By ITEP Staff

Many state legislative sessions are wrapping up...

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State Rundown 4/17: Tax Cut Proposals and the Consequences of Bad Tax Cuts

• By ITEP Staff

Happy (belated) Tax Day!

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State Rundown 4/3: Some States Buck the Trend on Foolish Tax Policy

• By ITEP Staff

This week tax cuts were debated across the upper Midwest...

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State Rundown 3/28: Tax Cut Madness, But Our Brackets Bet on Tax Fairness

• By ITEP Staff

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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State Rundown 3/20: Investments Over Cuts

• By ITEP Staff

Over the past week Utah continued its slow march toward a more inequitable tax code...

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State Rundown 3/14: Sessions are Heating Up

• By ITEP Staff

Many state legislative sessions are in the final stretch...

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State Rundown 3/6: Tax Cuts Aren’t Forever, or for Evers

• By ITEP Staff

Anti-tax interests finally found the end of the tax cutting appetite in a few states this week...

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State Rundown 2/28: States Keep Busy While Washington Stalls

• By ITEP Staff

State legislative sessions are in full swing with New Jersey and Oklahoma both particularly active this week...

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State Rundown 2/22: Some Top-Heavy Tax Cut Proposals are Getting the Chop

• By ITEP Staff

With many state legislatures now in full swing with activity heating up, some tax cut proposals have lost steam...

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State Rundown 2/14: Our Love Language is Taxes

• By ITEP Staff

As many of you may know, we love taxes, along with the many great things they provide for our communities...

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State Rundown 2/8: Flowers, Chocolates, and Tax Cuts for the Wealthy?

• By ITEP Staff

While we were hoping to get progressive tax policy wins for Valentine’s Day, many state lawmakers have another idea in mind...

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State Rundown 2/1: Black History Month Begins as Tax Debates Heat Up Nationwide

• By ITEP Staff

This week the showdown between the Kansas legislature and governor continued as Gov. Kelly vetoed the legislature’s latest attempt to pass a flat personal income tax. Elsewhere, the focus is on doing more for working families through proposals to expand refundable credits in Maryland and adding a millionaire tax bracket in Rhode Island. Meanwhile, there’s […]

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State Rundown 1/26: Wealth Taxes Drawing Interest Early in Legislative Sessions

• By ITEP Staff

Bills are moving and state legislative sessions are picking up across the country, giving elected officials the opportunity to consider two distinct paths when it comes to tax policy...

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State Rundown 1/18: State Tax Priorities Taking Shape in 2024

• By ITEP Staff

Tax policy themes have begun to crop up in states as governors give their yearly addresses and legislators lay out their plans for the 2024 legislative season...