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February 19, 2020West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy: Senate Tax Plan a Bad Deal for West Virginia
Senate Republicans unveiled their latest proposal to eliminate the business personal property tax this week, passing the proposal out of the Senate Finance Committee. The plan, which builds upon an earlier…
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January 28, 2020West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy: Who Pays? Rethinking West Virginia’s Tax System
To get a sense of a state’s values, one often need look no further than its tax system. What a state spends its tax dollars on and how it acquires…
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February 27, 2019Public News Service: Could Fast-Moving Tax-Cut Proposal Blow WV Budget?
House Bill 3137 would create a fund where new money, including out-of-state online sales taxes, would go. Then, each time that fund reached a certain level, it would trigger compounding…
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February 25, 2019West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy: House Income Tax Cut Plan Mostly Benefits Wealthy and Puts Large Holes in the State Budget (HB 3137)
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a one-percentage reduction in each personal income tax rate would give a West Virginian with an income between $36,000 and $56,000… -
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January 24, 2019West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy: Fixing the Social Security Tax Bill with a Bottom-Up Tax Cut for Working Families
The fact that so few West Virginians pay income tax on their Social Security benefits should tell us that this is not a middle-class tax cut. As the graph and… -
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October 19, 2018WOWK TV: Tax Issues in West Virginia
WOWK TV - Sean O'Leary, of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, talks to Mark Curtis about a new report that shows there's room improve West Virginia's upside-down tax system.
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October 18, 2018West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy: West Virginia’s Upside Down Tax System Grows Inequality
State and local tax systems can be effectively used to boost economic opportunity, create broadly shared prosperity and build equitable state economies. But in most states, including West Virginia, tax… -
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October 17, 2018West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy: Low-Income West Virginians Pay Far More in Taxes as a Percent of Income Than Wealthiest West Virginians
West Virginia's tax system is regarded as regressive because the lower one's income, the higher one's effective tax rate. While West Virginia has a progressive personal income (meaning the higher… -
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September 18, 2018West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy: Don’t Double Down on Failed Federal Tax Cuts
Extending most of these provision does more of the same and is a huge and alarming waste of resources. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economy Policy, if the…
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Tax Expenditure Reports
- West Virginia Tax Expenditure Reports
- Consumers Sales and Service Tax and Use Tax Expenditures - January 2016