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2013.06.06: Lots of Losers in Governor Cuomo's "Tax-Free New York"
2013.06.05: CTJ Report: Apple Is Not Alone
2013.06.05: Proponents of Low Taxes Called Out in Austerity Debate
2013.06.04: Brownback's Kansas is Taking Tax Cuts to Extremes
2013.06.04: State News Quick Hits: Pennsylvania's Antique Gas Tax Cap, Nebraska's Time-Out, and More
2013.05.30: Governor Cuomo Hearts Tax Cuts
2013.05.30: Tax Plans for Wisconsin Go From Bad to Worse
2013.05.29: State News Quick Hits: Nicolas Cage Lobbies, Massachusetts Raises Revenues and More
2013.05.24: Congratulations to Minnesota for Crossing the Finish Line
2013.05.22: Tax Credit for Working Poor Survives Iowa Tax Compromise
2013.05.22: State News Quick Hits: Neo-Vouchers in Alabama, and More
2013.05.22: Yes, What Apple's Doing in Ireland May Well Be Legal -- and That's the Problem
2013.05.22: Senate Hearing Demonstrates How U.S. Tax Rules Allow Apple (and Many Other Companies) to Use Offshore Tax Havens
2013.05.20: Louisiana Film Tax Credit Costs More Than It Brings In
2013.05.20: New CTJ Report: Apple Holds Billions of Dollars in Foreign Tax Havens
2013.05.16: Tax Rules for the Rich are Different, Just Ask Commerce Nominee Pritzker and Senate Candidate Gomez
2013.05.16: New Analysis: Virginia Gov-Candidate Ken Cuccinelli Campaigns on Tax Plan Stacked in Favor of the Wealthy
2013.05.15: State News Quick Hits: Why a Revenue Uptick is Not a Surplus, and More
2013.05.15: Veto is the Only Answer to Missouri Legislature's Tax Package
2013.05.13: Senator Rand Paul's Fight for Offshore Tax Havens
2013.05.13: Paying for a Civilized Society Doesn't Have to Be a Hassle
2013.05.09: Sam Adams Seeking "Craft Brewer" Tax Break
2013.05.09: Razzle Dazzle Can't Conceal Expensive, Regressive Tax Plan in North Carolina
2013.05.08: State News Quick Hits: Tax Politics in Virginia, Tax Reform in Kentucky, and More
2013.05.08: Lawmakers Should Oppose "Revenue-Neutral" Tax Reform
2013.05.07: Oklahoma Poised to Implement Tax Cut Voters Don't Want
2013.05.06: State Lawmakers are Celebrating: a State Tax Policy Expert Responds to Anticipated Senate Vote on Marketplace Fairness Act
2013.05.03: Iowa Debates Property Tax Cuts
2013.05.02: Rich States, Poor States and Fake Research: "Business Climate" Rankings Mislead Lawmakers by Design
2013.05.02: New from CTJ: State-by-State Figures on Obama's Proposal to Limit Tax Expenditures
2013.05.02: State News Quick Hits: Pushback on Tax Cuts as Job Creators, and More
2013.05.01: Missouri's Kansas-Envy is Self-Destructive
2013.04.30: FACT: Online Sales Tax Does Not Violate Grover's "No Tax Pledge"
2013.04.26: New from ITEP: Indiana Tax Cut Deal Stacked in Favor of the Wealthy
2013.04.26: Seriously, How Does OpenTable Get the Manufacturing Tax Break?
2013.04.25: Do the Math: Sequester Cuts to IRS Increase the Deficit
2013.04.25: State News Quick Hits: Ohio and Minnesota On Opposite Income Tax Tracks, and More
2013.04.24: Oklahoma Governor & Leadership Reach Regressive Tax Deal
2013.04.24: Online Sales Tax: Norquist vs. Laffer and Other Bedfellow Battles
2013.04.23: State News Quick Hits: Kansas Named Worst in the Nation for Taxes, and More
2013.04.23: CTJ Op-Ed Criticizes Senator Baucus' Handling of Tax Reform
2013.04.23: New from CTJ: Bernie Sanders Is Right and the Tax Foundation Is Wrong -- The U.S. Has Very Low Corporate Income Taxes
2013.04.18: The Corporate Tax Code Gives Away as Much as It Takes In
2013.04.17: Mid-Session Update on State Gas Tax Debates
2013.04.17: Louisiana Tax Overhaul Collapse as Bellwether? We Can Only Hope.
2013.04.16: Indiana Senate's Income Tax Cut Smaller But No Fairer Than Governor's
2013.04.16: State News Quick Hits: Promoting Tax Justice in the States on April 15
2013.04.12: How We Do Our Corporate Tax Research
2013.04.11: Rolling Tax Justice Billboard in DC for Tax Day 2013
2013.04.10: State News Quick Hits: The Girl Scout Cookie Carve-Out, A Massachusetts Showdown, and More
2013.04.09: Governor Jindal Admits Defeat, Abandons His Tax Plan
2013.04.05: Two Bills, One Outcome: Kansas Kills Its Income Tax
2013.04.05: The President's Budget: What We Know So Far
2013.04.04: CTJ Fact Sheet & Report: America's Tax System Is Not Very Progressive, and the Fiscal Cliff Deal Did Not Change That
2013.04.04: This Just In: Louisianans Still Don't Trust Governor Jindal's Tax Plan
2013.04.04: Exclusive CTJ & ITEP Newsletter Content Going Online
2013.04.04: CTJ Report: Who Loses Which Tax Breaks Under President Obama's Proposed Limit on Tax Expenditures?
2013.04.04: Study: US Tax Code Fails to Slow Widening Economic Inequality
2013.04.03: State News Quick Hits: Tech Company Heads to "Hi Tax" California, Arkansas is Opposite World, and More
2013.04.03: No Business Tax Repeal in Idaho, Only a Pared-Back Cut
2013.03.28: SCOTUS Rulings Could Change Same-Sex Spouses' Taxes
2013.03.26: State News Quick Hits: Clergy Oppose Jindal Plan, Chamber of Commerce Supports Fallin Plan, & More
2013.03.26: Senate Budget Debate Shows Support for Increased Revenue, Sales Taxes on Internet Purchases, and More
2013.03.21: Mobile Millionaires and the Search for the Holy Grail Tax Jurisdiction
2013.03.20: Business Tax Cuts Crammed Into Final Moments of New Mexico Session
2013.03.20: ITEP on How Federal Tax Reform Can Affect State and Local Governments
2013.03.20: State News Quick Hits: No Tax Break for Girls Scouts, The Virtue of the Gas Tax and More
2013.03.19: Chart: New Gas Tax Plan in Maryland House of Delegates
2013.03.19: What You Should Know about the RATE Coalition's Quest for a Lower Corporate Tax Rate
2013.03.18: Earned Income Tax Credits in the States: Recent Developments, Good and Bad
2013.03.15: The Myth that Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves Is Back
2013.03.15: Jindal Leaves Inconvenient Details Out of His Tax Plan
2013.03.14: Comparing Congressional Budget Plans
2013.03.14: National Anti-Tax Group vs. Indiana
2013.03.13: New CTJ Report: Paul Ryan's Latest Budget Plan Would Give Millionaires a Tax Cut of $200,000 or More
2013.03.13: State News Quick Hits: Tax Break Chaos in Georgia, Taxing the Poor in the Southwest, and More
2013.03.12: Missouri Gaining on Kansas in Race to the Backwards Tax Plan
2013.03.11: Replace the Sequester By Closing Tax Loopholes
2013.03.07: New Corporate Tax Lobby: Don't Call It LIFT, Call It LIE
2013.03.06: Governor Christie Budget Plan Panned as Gimmick, His Tax Talk Called Puffery
2013.03.06: Chart: Maryland Governor O'Malley's New Gas Tax Plan
2013.02.28: Two Cool New Tools Make Corporations a Little More Transparent
2013.02.28: States with "High Rate" Income Taxes Are Still Outperforming No-Tax States
2013.02.27: New from ITEP: Laffer's Latest Job Growth Factoid is All Rhetoric
2013.02.26: Reforming Tax Breaks for Education
2013.02.26: State News Quick Hits: Myth of the Tax-Fleeing Millionaire, and More
2013.02.25: Virginia Raises the Wrong Taxes to Pay for Roads
2013.02.25: Governor Walker Promises the Wrong Kind of Tax Cuts
2013.02.22: Governor Strikes Out with Tax Plan for Nebraska
2013.02.22: It's a Fact: Undocumented Workers Pay Taxes
2013.02.21: You're a Tax Cheat if You Don't Pay Sales Taxes on Amazon Purchases -- and a New Bill Might Make You Pay
2013.02.21: Gas Tax Gains Favor in the States
2013.02.20: Simpson and Bowles' New Deficit-Reduction Plan: Raise Less Revenue, Because Politicians Say So
2013.02.20: State News Quick Hits: ALEC Under Scrutiny, Closing Corporate Loopholes in DC, and More!
2013.02.14: The Four Takeaways from the CBO Budget Outlook
2013.02.14: Why We Hope Obama's Nominee for Treasury Secretary Is a Quick Learner
2013.02.14: Facebook Status Update: A $429 Million Tax Rebate, Compliments of U.S. Taxpayers
2013.02.14: State Tax Proposals Worthy of the Word "Reform"
2013.02.13: State of the Union Address: Good on Principles, Weak on Policy
2013.02.13: Idaho Ponders Tax Break for a Company that Pays Nothing in State Income Taxes
2013.02.12: What Obama Should Tell America: Reducing the Deficit is Not that Hard
2013.02.12: State News Quick Hits: Seeing the Writing on the Kindle, Praise for ITEP's Research, and More
2013.02.11: New Google Documents Show Another Year of Offshore Tax Dodging
2013.02.08: "Middle Class Tax Cut" Could Send Wisconsin Down Slippery Slope
2013.02.07: CTJ's Bob McIntyre Applauds New Bill to End Deferral of Taxes on Offshore Corporate Profits
2013.02.07: CTJ Releases New 2013 Tax Calculator
2013.02.06: Five States Eyeing Regressive Income Tax Cuts: AR, IN, MT, OK, WI
2013.02.06: A Second Year of Tax Increases for Poorest Kansans
2013.02.05: Anti-Tax Credo Keeps Texas Kids In Underfunded Schools
2013.02.04: CTJ Report: Camp's Proposals for Derivatives Would Be Helpful If Revenue Wasn't Used for Rate Cuts
2013.02.04: Replacing the Sequester Requires Closing Tax Loopholes
2013.02.04: State News Quick Hits: Transparency in Texas, Too Many Tax Swaps and Asking "Who Pays?"
2013.01.31: Ending Tax Shelters for Investment Income Is Key to Tax Reform
2013.01.30: Wealthiest Americans Pay Half the Effective Tax Rate That Poorest Pay in State and Local Taxes; Middle-Income Families Also Pay More
2013.01.30: Arthur Laffer Promises Trickle-Down Prosperity, Again
2013.01.28: EITC Awareness Day Should Be a Heads Up for Lawmakers, as Well as Potential Recipients
2013.01.28: New CTJ Report: Congressional Research Service Finds Evidence of Massive Tax Avoidance by U.S. Corporations Using Tax Havens
2013.01.24: Beware The Tax Swap
2013.01.23: State News Quick Hits: Pence Plan Gets Panned, Snooki Subsidy Lives On, and More
2013.01.23: Can't KPMG Find Enough Tax Loopholes to Make Phil Mickelson Stay in the United States?
2013.01.18: The Holiday's Over, Your Paycheck is Smaller
2013.01.17: New CTJ Numbers: How Many People in Each State Pay More in Taxes after the Fiscal Cliff Deal?
2013.01.17: Coming to a State Near You: Tax Reform That Might Get It Wrong
2013.01.16: Tax Reform in Paradise: Ideas to Help Hawaii's Poor
2013.01.15: Governor Jindal's Bad Idea for Louisiana Attracts Scrutiny
2013.01.14: State News Quick Hits: Virginia's Gas Tax & Vermont's EITC on Chopping Block, and More
2013.01.11: There's No Excuse Not to Raise More Revenue
2013.01.09: New Congress Wastes No Time Introducing Anti-Tax Bills
2013.01.09: After Fiscal Cliff Deal, Warren Buffett Still Pays Low Tax Rate, GE Still Avoids Taxes
2013.01.09: Why the "Extenders" in the Fiscal Cliff Deal Will End Up Costing More than Was Saved by Ending Tax Cuts for the Rich
2013.01.09: Governor McDonnell's Bad Idea: Eliminating Virginia's Gas Tax
2013.01.04: CTJ Reports Examine Revenue and Distributional Effects of the Fiscal Cliff Deal
2013.01.03: A Tax Cut By Any Other Name
2012.12.31: Extending Tax Cuts for Income Above S250,000 is Wrong Solution to Fiscal Cliff
2012.12.21: Small Business Owners Push Back Against Anti-Tax Agenda
2012.12.20: New Report: Comparing Speaker Boehner's "Plan B" Tax Proposal and President Obama's Latest Proposal
2012.12.19: Previewing Tax Reform in the States: National Trends and State-specific Prospects for 2013
2012.12.14: Small Business Owners to Congress: "Need $1 Trillion? Look Offshore"
2012.12.14: Join George Soros, Abigail Disney and Jimmy Carter in Calling for a Strong Estate Tax
2012.12.13: New Report Shows Why Corporate Lobbyists' Proposals Should Not Be Part of Budget Deal
2012.12.13: Rush Limbaugh Pilfers Our Research, Deception Ensues
2012.12.11: Fiscal Chutes and Ladders - It's Funtaxic!
2012.12.11: Quick Hits in State News: Hoosiers Choose Revenues, Kentuckers Tackle Reform and More
2012.12.07: New York Times Asks How Obama Plan Really Affects the Top Two Percent
2012.12.07: CEOs and Fix-the-Debt Gang Lobby for Terribletorial Corporate Tax System
2012.12.06: Quick Hits in State News: The Perils of Tax Credits, Breaks and Incentives
2012.12.05: Disturbing Trends in New IRS Data on Income
2012.12.05: In the Spotlight: Indiana, Wisconsin and Wrongheaded Tax Cuts
2012.11.29: No Dancing on Grover's Grave
2012.11.28: Republican Rep. Tom Cole Is Right: Obama's Proposal to Extend Most, But Not All, of the Bush Tax Cuts Is NOT a Tax Increase
2012.11.27: Quick Hits in State News: Wisconsin's Income Gap, the Brownbacks' Values Gap
2012.11.20: This Holiday, The Tax Justice Team Is Thankful For...
2012.11.16: Taxpayer-Backed Sports Stadiums are a $31 Billion Rip-Off
2012.11.16: Quick Hits in State News: Election Signals Changes in California, and More
2012.11.15: Beltway's New "Lexus Lanes" a Symbol of Broken Tax Policy
2012.11.15: Extending Tax Cuts to Millionaires: Still a Terrible Idea
2012.11.15: The Making Work Pay Credit vs. the Payroll Tax Holiday
2012.11.15: Despite What You've Heard, The AMT Is Not a Middle-Class Tax
2012.11.14: How Would the End of the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich Affect Jobs?
2012.11.09: Obama's Proposed Extension of the Bush Tax Cuts Is Costly, But Can Be Followed with Real Revenue-Raising Tax Reforms
2012.11.09: Election Day Polls Empower President, Congress To Raise Taxes
2012.11.08: Grover Norquist Becoming A Political Ball and Chain?
2012.11.08: Boehner's Fake Offer of Compromise on Taxes
2012.11.07: Tax Fairness Prevails at the State Ballot Box
2012.11.07: The Voters Have Spoken: It's Time to Get Real About Taxes
2012.11.06: Quick Hits in State News: Even On Election Day, State Tax Debates Are In Full Swing
2012.11.02: New CTJ Report: Making Work Pay Credit More Effective and Affordable than Other Types of Tax Cuts
2012.11.02: Voters Asked to Make Up Local Revenues States Stopped Providing
2012.11.01: Romney's Tax Rate Is Not "Fair," And Neither Are His Tax Policies
2012.10.31: Quick Hits in State News: Tricks, Treats and Taxes!
2012.10.26: New Report: Romney's Latest Proposal to Pay for His Tax Cuts Would Offset Only a Fraction of Their Costs: National & State-by-State Figures
2012.10.25: Evidence Continues to Mount: State Taxes Don't Cause Rich to Flee
2012.10.24: Tax Policy Invades the Foreign Policy Presidential Debate
2012.10.23: Quick Hits in State News: Will Pennsylvania Workers Be Paying Taxes to Employers? And More...
2012.10.22: Ballot Measures in Eleven States Put Taxes in Voters' Hands
2012.10.22: The International Relations Issue the Candidates Probably Won't Debate: Territorial Taxes
2012.10.19: Context Lacking in Presidential Town Hall Tax Debate
2012.10.19: Quick Hits in State News: Wynonna Judd's Tax Break, Undocumented Workers' Taxes
2012.10.18: Nike, Microsoft and Apple Admit to Offshore Tax Shenanigans; Other Companies Plead the Fifth
2012.10.17: About that Cayman Islands Trust....
2012.10.17: Romney's Three Biggest Tax Whoppers in the Town Hall Presidential Debate
2012.10.17: Would Repealing the Tax Break for Capital Gains Raise Revenue?
2012.10.16: Governor Brownback Considers Sales Tax as Band-Aid for Broken Budget
2012.10.12: Top Ten Tax Moments from the VP Debate
2012.10.12: Quick Hits in State News: Don't Be Like Louisiana, Don't Be Like Kansas
2012.10.11: California Voters to Choose Which Tax Proposals Will Pay for Schools on November 6
2012.10.10: Senator Schumer Gets Tax Reform Partially Right
2012.10.09: Anatomy of a Disastrous Supermajority Proposal in Michigan
2012.10.05: Debate Debrief: What Romney and Obama Got Wrong on Business Taxes
2012.10.04: Debate Debrief: Romney and Obama Compare Tax Policies
2012.10.03: Quick Hits in State News: Tax Breaks Spell Trouble Everywhere
2012.10.03: Tax Questions and Tax Facts for the Presidential Candidates
2012.10.03: Play Presidential Debate Tax Bingo
2012.10.02: New from ITEP: Getting a Grip on State Tax Breaks
2012.10.02: Romney's Idea to Limit Deductions to $17,000 Cannot Make His Tax Plan Work
2012.10.01: Politicians Choosing Roads Over Schools
2012.10.01: Why Does the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Advocate Corporate Tax Overhaul that Won't Improve the Budget?
2012.09.28: Tim Kaine Lurches Right in Quest for "Middle Ground"
2012.09.27: Quick Hits in State News: Brownback Spins a Story, and More
2012.09.27: Blue Ribbon Experts School Blue Grass Lawmakers in Tax Reform
2012.09.27: Microsoft and HP in the Hot Seat as Senate Investigates Offshore Profit Shifting
2012.09.27: House Republicans Vote to Encourage Voluntary Payments to IRS; Only Taxpayer to Express Interest So Far Is Mitt Romney
2012.09.26: Business Experts Not as Anti-Government as You Think
2012.09.24: Capital Gains Subsidy That Saved Romney $1.2 Million Comes Under Scrutiny
2012.09.21: Mitt Romney's 2011 Returns Reveal a Tax Code Stacked in Favor of the Very Rich
2012.09.21: Fewer than Three Percent of Americans Will Pay Health Care "Penalty Tax" -- and Anti-Tax Politicians Go Crazy Anyway
2012.09.20: Quick Hits in State News: A Surplus Compared to What, Progress in Minnesota & More
2012.09.20: New ITEP Report Highlights Anti-Poverty Tax Policies In Response to New State Census Data
2012.09.20: It's Official: Cutting Top Tax Rates Doesn't Grow the Economy, It Only Grows Income Inequality
2012.09.20: New Report: Ending the Capital Gains Tax Preference would Improve Fairness, Raise Revenue and Simplify the Tax Code
2012.09.18: Three Things Romney Forgot to Say About Who Pays Taxes
2012.09.13: Quick Hits in State News: Iowa Governor Withholds Tax Plan Details, Tax-Free Guns in Louisiana, and More
2012.09.13: Swiss Bank Tipster Gets Record $104 Million Reward from IRS
2012.09.13: Fact Check: Romney Energy Adviser's Oil Company Pays 2.2 Percent Federal Tax Rate
2012.09.12: CTJ Testifies Before the Congressional Progressive Caucus about the Need for Revenue
2012.09.12: Romney Gets It From All Sides: Stop Dodging Tax Policy Details
2012.09.12: Taxes, Poverty and Political Debates
2012.09.10: Romney's Bad Arithmetic: CTJ Report Disproves Claim that Romney Won't Lower Taxes for the Rich
2012.09.07: How the Democratic National Convention Ended Better than We Expected
2012.09.07: Experts To Wisconsin: Save the Income Tax, Close the Loopholes
2012.09.06: Tax Ideas in the Democratic Platform: Obama as Tax-Cutter-In-Chief
2012.09.05: Are Bain's Tax Practices Actually Illegal?
2012.09.05: Convention Speaker Profiles: Govenors Malloy, Hickenlooper, Markell & Schweitzer
2012.09.04: Convention Speaker Profiles: Govenors Perdue, Quinn, Chafee, Patrick & O'Malley
2012.09.04: It May Be Time to Consider a Carbon Tax -- But Not to Finance Tax Cuts for Corporations and the Rich!
2012.08.31: On Taxes, Romney Projects onto His Opponent
2012.08.30: Tax Ideas in the Republican Platform, Part I: Same Old Supply-Side Stuff
2012.08.30: CTJ Report: How Big Is the Romney-Ryan Tax Cut for Millionaires?
2012.08.30: Tax Ideas in the Republican Platform, Part II: On the Fringe
2012.08.30: Mitt Romney's Much More Important Tax Secret
2012.08.29: Quick Hits in State News: Oklahoma Income Tax Still Under Threat, Wyoming Gas Tax Under Review
2012.08.29: Convention Speaker Profiles: Governors Bobby Jindal and Susana Martinez
2012.08.29: Mitt Romney: I "Learned Leadership" From Tax Dodging Marriott CEO
2012.08.28: Convention Speaker Profiles: Governors Mary Fallin, John Kasich, Brian Sandoval, Scott Walker and Nikki Haley
2012.08.28: Convention Speaker Profile: Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ)
2012.08.28: Convention Speaker Profile: Governor Rick Scott (R-FL)
2012.08.23: Mitt Romney's Huge Personal Financial Stake in the Upcoming Election
2012.08.23: Don't Buy Into the Fiscal Cliff Hysteria
2012.08.22: Quick Hits in State News: Severance Tax Not on the Ballot, Louisiana Tax Reform on the Horizon, Strip Club Tax, and More
2012.08.20: California Lawmakers Stumble in Quest for Tax-Complexity Gold
2012.08.17: Quick Hits In State News: Jerry Brown Advocates Tax Increase, Other Governors Still Want to Cut
2012.08.16: What the Tax Foundation Gets Wrong about the Bush Tax Cuts
2012.08.15: Motorola: Job Creator or Shakedown Artist?
2012.08.15: Quick Hits in State News: Defending the Income Tax in Arkansas, Cutting the Property Tax in North Dakota, and More
2012.08.14: Tax Fairness Is TBD In Colorado
2012.08.11: The Paul Ryan Budget Roundup
2012.08.09: Quick Hits in State News: Business Tax Credits Don't Measure Up, and More
2012.08.09: The Olympic Tax Exemption: It Gets Worse
2012.08.08: Governor Brownback Goes on PR Offensive For His Tax Cuts
2012.08.08: New Analysis: Mike Pence's Plan for Indiana is a Windfall for the Wealthy; Alternative Delivers the Widespread Benefits Candidate Pence Only Promises
2012.08.07: Quick Hits in State News: State Revenues Still Low, Tax Breaks Still Unhelpful
2012.08.06: Healthy State Economies Need the Progressive Income Tax: New Policy Brief
2012.08.03: Quick Hits in State News: Iowa Film Tax Credit Drama Continues, and More
2012.08.03: Anti-Tax Grandstanding of Olympic Proportions
2012.08.02: New CTJ Report: Congress Should Kill the "Extenders" that Let G.E., Apple, and Google Send Their Profits Offshore
2012.08.02: "Tax-Hungry Politicians" Target Online Sales Tax Evasion
2012.08.01: New Reports with State-Specific Data on Bush Tax Cuts
2012.08.01: Press Release: Sales Tax Holidays No Substitute for Tax Reform
2012.07.31: In North Carolina, An Anti-Tax Gubernatorial Candidate Who Should Know Better
2012.07.31: The Folly of Sales Tax Holidays
2012.07.27: Quick hits in State News: Arthur Laffer Under Scrutiny, and More
2012.07.26: Will Conservative Governors Reject the Deal of a Lifetime?
2012.07.26: Top GOP Tax-Writer Proposes Fast-Track for Ryan Plan Tax Changes, Giving Millionaires Average Tax Cut of at Least $187,000 in 2014
2012.07.25: CTJ Statement on Passage of Senate Democrats' Tax Proposal
2012.07.24: The Senate Votes on the Bush Tax Cuts: Reviewing the Numbers
2012.07.24: Report Sounds Alarm Over State Revenue Squeeze
2012.07.23: Quick Hits in State News: Decades-Old Tax Breaks Getting a Closer Look, Getting Real about Regressivity, and More
2012.07.20: Quick Hits in State News: Georgia Businesses Support Tax Hike on Consumers, and More
2012.07.19: Corning and 3M Call for Tax Exemption for Offshore Profits, but Ford Motor Admits Real Business Abroad Is Not Taxed Less than U.S. Business
2012.07.19: US Chamber Backed Study All Wrong on Tax Cuts
2012.07.19: Corning Pays Zero Federal Taxes, Tells Congress That's Too Much
2012.07.18: New Poll: Americans Support Ending Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich, Making System More Fair
2012.07.17: Why the Heritage Foundation Is Wrong about Taxes and Job Creation
2012.07.17: Michigan: Pure Disaster When It Comes to Tax Policy
2012.07.17: Call Congress TODAY to End Tax Cuts for the Rich!
2012.07.16: Quick Hits in State News: Tax Breaks on Autopilot, Texas Tax Folly, and More
2012.07.13: Sweet Tax Deals for Tech Companies in D.C.
2012.07.12: New From ITEP: Four Tax Ideas for Jobs-Focused Governors
2012.07.12: Governors Class of 2012: Honors Students and Class Clowns
2012.07.10: Why Would Grover Norquist Misrepresent CTJ?
2012.07.09: Quick Hits in State News: Florida's Tax Mess, Chris Christie's Hubris
2012.07.06: How (and How Not to) Confront Income Inequality with Tax Reform
2012.07.06: Quick Hits in State News: Illinois Tax Code is Still Swiss Cheese, Cheeseheads Take on Tax Reform, and More
2012.07.05: Chris Christie, Drama Queen
2012.07.03: Quick Hits in State News: Fireworks Are Expensive, and More
2012.07.03: Mitch McConnell Misleads on Health Care Mandate
2012.06.29: Supreme Court Says Fee for Not Buying Health Insurance Is a "Tax." Don't Worry. Hardly Anyone Will Have to Pay It.
2012.06.28: Quick Hits in State News: Business Tax Breaks Get Panned in PA, Neo-Vouchers Take Hold in NH
2012.06.27: Blow to Low-Income Seniors: Anti-Poverty Tax Credit Eliminated in Illinois
2012.06.25: Quick Hits in State News: Wisconsin Billionaires Go Tax Free, and More
2012.06.22: GOP Governors Break With Party Over Online Sales Tax
2012.06.21: Quick Hits in State News: Jersey's Millionaires Tax Returns, Idaho's Budget Crashes & Burns - and More.
2012.06.20: The Best Answer to States' Fiscal Distress is Real Tax Reform
2012.06.20: New Numbers: Comparing Obama vs. GOP Approaches to Extending Bush Tax Cuts
2012.06.19: Quick Hits in State News: Michiganders Pander, Associated Press Analyzes, and More
2012.06.15: From Atlantic City to Cincinnati: Legalized Gambling No Jackpot for States
2012.06.14: Quick Hits in State News: Tax Policy in New Hampshire's Constitution, The Arts as Economics, and More
2012.06.14: Neo-Vouchers: The New Corporate Tax Subsidy (Seriously)
2012.06.13: North Dakota Says No to Measure 2, Preserves Its Property Tax
2012.06.12: Quick Hits in State News: Chris Christie Bargains, North Dakotans Vote, and More!
2012.06.11: Taxes Are Pawns In Michigan Election Year
2012.06.07: Quick Hits in State News: Massachusetts Movie Subsidies, Oklahoma Short on Transit Funds, and More
2012.06.07: Costly Carolina Loophole Gets Long Overdue Scrutiny
2012.06.07: Should Congress Just Go Home?
2012.06.06: Governor Walker Courageous? We Beg to Differ
2012.06.06: Washington State SuperMajority Rule Gets Judicial Scrutiny
2012.06.05: Bill Clinton Falls for the Fiscal Cliff
2012.06.05: When States Strangle City Budgets: Pew Reports on "Local Squeeze"
2012.06.04: Quick Hits in States News: Walker's Wisconsin Record, Oops at the Wall Street Journal, and More
2012.06.04: House Majority & Medical Device Industry Collude to Kill A Tax
2012.06.01: Oklahomans Reject Laffer Plan, Preserve Their Income Tax
2012.05.31: Joint Committee on Taxation Confirms CTJ Figures on Pelosi Proposal
2012.05.31: Quick Hits in State News: Amazon Does More Deals, Kansas Gets Panned, and More
2012.05.31: The IRS 35,000: How the Richest Americans Pay the Lowest Taxes
2012.05.30: Kansas Joins Uniquely Regressive Bad Tax Policy Club
2012.05.29: Quick Hits in State News: Grover Takes a Hit in Illinois, Tax Law Horrifies Kansans, and More
2012.05.25: Media Blast Pelosi's Move on Bush Tax Cuts, Cite CTJ
2012.05.25: Quick Hits in State News: Maryland Raises Taxes, Clutch Time in Oklahoma, and More
2012.05.24: Reality Shatters Chris Christie's Rose-Colored Glasses
2012.05.24: To Know the Gas Tax Is To Love the Gas Tax
2012.05.23: Minority Leader Pelosi's "Middle Class" Tax Plan Benefits Millionaires, According to New Citizens for Tax Justice Estimate
2012.05.22: Governor Brownback Signs Backwards Tax Bill Into Kansas Law
2012.05.22: What's Really "Nauseating": Tax Subsidies for Bain Capital Partners
2012.05.21: Quick Hits in State News: Sports & Shopping Boondoggles, and More
2012.05.21: Tax Credits for Movie Makers? Two Thumbs Down
2012.05.18: GOP Speaker Boehner Threatens Default if Spending Not Cut Yet Insists on Tax Cuts that Increase the Deficit
2012.05.18: ITEP Joins Tax Policy Debates in Kansas
2012.05.18: Tax Treason and a Facebook Billionaire
2012.05.17: Quick Hits in State News: The Avengers Movie Tax Subsidy, and More
2012.05.17: As Facebook's IPO Price Soars, So Does Its Tax Deduction
2012.05.16: New From ITEP: Maryland Tax Bill Would Improve Tax Fairness and Revenue
2012.05.15: Quick Hits in State News: Taxes Take Center Stage in New Hampshire Politics, and More
2012.05.15: Virginia Gov. McDonnell Says He Wants Tax Reform, But....
2012.05.14: Starving the Census in the House GOP Budget: Penny Wise, And Dumb
2012.05.11: Quick Hits in State News: Wise Oklahomans, A Smart Texas Judge, and More
2012.05.10: Good News in Illinois: Hidden Business Tax Breaks May Soon See the Light
2012.05.10: CEOs of Tax Dodging Corporations Ask For Personal Tax Breaks, Too
2012.05.10: Iowa Governor Fails Again to Win Property Tax Cuts for Business; Tax Credit for Working Poor Is Casualty
2012.05.07: Close the Newt Gingrich/John Edwards Loophole!
2012.05.07: Quick Hits in State News: Raise Taxes to Avoid Doomsday in Maryland, and More
2012.05.03: Quick Hits in State News: Too Business-Friendly in Michigan & Florida, A Caution on Fracking, and More
2012.05.03: ITEP's Message to Congress: Federal Tax Reform Could Help or Hurt State and Local Governments
2012.05.03: Red and Blue States' Commissions Agree on Need to Get Real About Costs of Tax Breaks
2012.05.02: Stadium Subsidies: Playing Games With Taxpayer Dollars
2012.05.02: Senator Rand Paul: Champion of Secret Swiss Bank Accounts
2012.05.01: Quick Hits in State News: Kansas Republicans Oppose Tax Cuts, Tax Breaks Are Really Spending, and More
2012.05.01: Romney: I Was For Closing The Mortgage Loophole on Second Homes Before I Was Against It
2012.04.26: Quick Hits In State News: Rhode Island Eyes Tax Increases, Massachusetts Gets Good Advice, and More
2012.04.26: Are States Really "Racing" To Repeal Income Taxes?
2012.04.25: No Amnesty for Corporate Tax Dodgers!
2012.04.25: Inching Towards An Online Sales Tax Policy
2012.04.24: Quick Hits in State News: Doomsday Clock in Maryland, Branstad Loophole in Iowa, and More!
2012.04.24: Virginia Governor Expands Wasteful Corporate Tax Giveaway
2012.04.23: A Missouri Legislator Takes On A Costly Loophole
2012.04.20: HOUSE GOP LEADER CALLS FOR TAX INCREASES ON LOWER-INCOME AMERICANS
2012.04.20: South Carolina House Pulls Its Punch, Preserves Costly Exemptions to Sales Tax
2012.04.20: Step Aside, Tea Party - A New Kind of Tax Protest is Here
2012.04.19: Obama Administration Scores a Victory for Honest Taxpayers Everywhere
2012.04.19: CTJ Fact Sheet: What You Need to Know About America's Tax System
2012.04.19: Quick Hits in State News: Good Riddance to Missouri's Radical Tax Plan, and More
2012.04.19: Rick Perry Pulls a Grover With No-Tax Pledge
2012.04.18: Americans Want Fair Taxes. When Will Washington Listen?
2012.04.17: Tax Day In The States: Reasons to Love Taxes In Words and Images
2012.04.17: Quick Hits in State News: Paying Taxes to the Boss, and More
2012.04.16: Tax Fairness Takes a Hit; Senate Defeats Buffett Rule
2012.04.16: The Herminator Is Back - With His 9-9-9 Plan
2012.04.13: Quick Hits in State News: Tax Myths Take Hits in OK and TX
2012.04.13: New CTJ Report: Tax Tips with Mitt
2012.04.13: Arthur Laffer's Rich States, Poor States Is More Wish List Than Analysis
2012.04.12: Garth: The Only American Who Doesn't Pay Taxes?
2012.04.12: Are Tax Breaks for Business Creating Economic Growth? Most States Don't Know
2012.04.11: VIDEO: Mitch, Who Wants to Pay No Taxes
2012.04.10: New CTJ Report: Buffett Rule Bill Before the Senate Is a Small Step Towards Tax Fairness
2012.04.10: Quick Hits in State News: Anti-tax Fiasco in Missouri, Clock Runs Out in Maryland, and More
2012.04.10: Two Reports from CTJ Demonstrate that America's Corporate Tax Rate Is Not Burdensome for Companies
2012.04.09: New Rule: If Taxpayers Pay Your Salary, Come Clean on Your Finances
2012.04.06: Illinois Pension System in Trouble, Lawmakers Must Act
2012.04.05: Pennsylvania Falls Short in Corporate Tax Reform
2012.04.05: New from CTJ: The Alternative Minimum Tax Is Not a Middle-Class Tax
2012.04.04: Transportation Funding Debacles Around the Country
2012.04.03: New Fiction from Arthur Laffer: Estate Tax Killed 220,000 Jobs in Tennessee
2012.04.03: Quick Hits in State News: Tax Breaks For Business Plague Missouri, and More
2012.04.02: Groupon Is a Headache for State Tax Administrators
2012.03.30: Lotto Fever, Fiscal Madness
2012.03.29: Quick Hits in State News: A Compromise for Maryland, Common Sense in Kansas, and More
2012.03.29: CTJ Joins Over 70 Organizations Endorsing Rep. McDermott's Sensible Estate Tax Act
2012.03.28: New Analysis: Kansas House & Senate Follow Governor Brownback Down Dangerous Road on Taxes
2012.03.27: Progressive Caucus Budget: The Fairest and Most Responsible Budget Proposal in Congress
2012.03.27: Despite Claims, House "Centrist" Budget is No Simpson-Bowles Plan On Key Tax Issue
2012.03.27: Tax Break Depends On What Your Definition of Small Business Is
2012.03.27: Quick Hits in State News: Enlightened Editorials in Oklahoma and Nebraska, and More
2012.03.26: Everything You've Heard on the News about Obama's Tax Proposals Lately Is Wrong
2012.03.26: Clunker of a Tax Package Races Through Georgia Legislature
2012.03.22: CTJ Report: Ryan's Budget Cuts Income Taxes for Millionaires by at Least $187,000
2012.03.22: New from CTJ: How Corporate Tax Dodgers are Buying Tax Loopholes
2012.03.22: Quick Hits in State News: Indiana Kills Its Inheritance Tax, and More
2012.03.21: iTax Dodger
2012.03.21: Quick Hits in the State News: Taxes Don't Scare Millionaires, and More
2012.03.20: New Analysis: Idaho House Tax Plan Stacked in Favor of the Wealthy
2012.03.19: Oklahoma Lawmakers Bent on Cutting Taxes for the Rich
2012.03.16: Quick Hits in State News: Nevada Governor Earns Grover's Ire, and More
2012.03.15: How Much Revenue Can be Raised by Ending Breaks for Investment Income? CTJ Jumps into the Debate
2012.03.15: Bad Idea in Ohio: Pay For Income Tax Cut with a Fracking Tax
2012.03.14: The Case of the Missing $96 Billion in Corporate Taxes
2012.03.13: Quick Hits in State News: Dollywood Tax Deal, Tar Heels Defend the Estate Tax, and More
2012.03.13: Rhode Island: Just Don't Call It Class Warfare
2012.03.08: Quick Hits in State News: Cold Feet on Gas Tax Hikes, and More.
2012.03.06: Quick Hits in State News: A Corporate Fair Tax Bill in New Mexico, and More
2012.03.06: Are Louisiana's Billions in Business Tax Breaks Creating Jobs? Nobody Knows.
2012.03.01: GE Tries to Change the Subject
2012.03.01: Quick Hits in State News: ITEP Testifies in Maryland, and More
2012.03.01: CTJ's Experts Take to the Media To Discuss President Obama's Corporate Tax "Framework"
2012.03.01: Two Recent Polls Get it Wrong on Taxes
2012.02.28: Quick Hits in State News: Sears Fires Workers Despite Tax Breaks, and More
2012.02.28: American Taxpayers Subsidize Monday Night Racing
2012.02.27: Press Release: General Electric's Ten Year Tax Rate Only Two Percent
2012.02.23: Avoiding Property Taxes 'til the Cows Come Home in Florida
2012.02.23: Quick Hits in State News: Business Advocate Opposes Business Tax Breaks in Georgia, and More
2012.02.23: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Promotes Same Old Tired Arguments for Cutting Taxes
2012.02.22: Citizens for Tax Justice Responds to President Obama's Corporate Tax Proposal: President's 'Framework' Fails to Raise Revenue
2012.02.22: Quick Hits In State News: A Good Bill With a Dim Future in New Mexico, and More
2012.02.21: Op-Ed: Arthur Laffer's Tax Cut Snake Oil
2012.02.17: Quick Hits in State News: Tax Victory in Iowa, and More
2012.02.16: New Fact Sheet: Obama Promoting Tax Cuts at Boeing, a Company that Paid Nothing in Net Federal Taxes Over Past Decade
2012.02.16: New Report: Arthur Laffer's Bad Data Misleads Lawmakers
2012.02.16: President Obama's 2013 Budget Plan Reduces Revenue by Trillions, Makes Permanent 78 Percent of Bush Tax Cuts
2012.02.14: Quick Hits in State News: Supermajorities Aren't All That Super, Valentine's Dinner With Tax Dodgers, & More
2012.02.13: First Thoughts on President Obama's Budget Proposal
2012.02.13: New From ITEP: States with "High Rate" Income Taxes Are Outperforming No-Tax States
2012.02.13: House Republicans Try to Enshrine Idea that Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves
2012.02.10: Cuts Are the Wrong Answer, Governor Kasich; Here's a Better One
2012.02.10: Online Sales Tax Update: That Amazon.com Book Shouldn't Be Tax-Free Anyway
2012.02.09: Quick Hits in State News: Radical Move to Eliminate Oklahoma's Income Tax, Ballot Madness in California, and more
2012.02.08: New Polls Show Growing Sentiment that Wealthy and Corporations Don't Pay Enough Taxes
2012.02.08: Chris Christie Playing Shell Game With Tax Cuts
2012.02.07: Op-Ed: Corporations Should Pay More Taxes, Not Less
2012.02.07: Quick Hits in State News: Kudos to Maryland Governor O'Malley for "Courage on Taxes," and More
2012.02.06: Facebook's First Public Filing Reveals Its Plan to be a Champion Tax Dodger
2012.02.06: Trending in 2012: Admitting Taxes Are Too Low
2012.02.02: How We're Changing the Conversation on Corporate Taxes Across America
2012.02.02: Quick Hits in State News: A Call for Corporate Tax Reform in New York & More
2012.02.02: CBO Says Budget Outlook Will Improve Dramatically If Congress Simply Stops Passing Tax Cuts
2012.02.01: Who You Callin' Moderate? Some Governors' Tax Plans Are Downright Radical
2012.01.31: Debate Club: Should Mitt Romney Pay More Taxes?
2012.01.31: Quick Hits in State News: Michiganders Want an Amazon Tax & More
2012.01.30: New Graphics: State Gas Taxes at Historic Lows, and Dropping
2012.01.27: Maryland's Governor O'Malley is Right: Digital Downloads Don't Need a Special Tax Break
2012.01.27: Breaking Down the Most Notable Quotes from the GOP Debates
2012.01.27: CTJ Director in American Prospect: Gingrich and Romney's Capital Games
2012.01.27: CTJ Calculates Buffett Rule Would Raise $50 Billion in One Year and Affect Only the Richest 0.08 Percent of Taxpayers
2012.01.27: CTJ Analysis in TIME: Gingrich's "Flat Tax" Would Be 15 Percent on Earned Income, 0 Percent on Investment Income Romney Lives On
2012.01.27: Trending in the States: Cutting Corporate Taxes Because Lobbyists Say You Should
2012.01.26: CTJ's Response to SOTU: Right about Stopping Offshore Tax Dodgers, Wrong about Cutting Taxes for Other Corporations
2012.01.26: Nebraska Governor Proposes Taking State's Tax System From Bad to Worse
2012.01.25: How Obama Could Get Buffett and Romney to Pay at Least 30 Percent in Taxes
2012.01.19: CTJ Analysis Shows Romney's Plan Would Cut His Own Taxes Almost in Half
2012.01.19: Governor Brownback's Plan Means Tax Hikes for Majority of Kansans, Big Cuts for Richest One Percent
2012.01.19: Trending in 2012: Estate and Inheritance Tax Rollbacks
2012.01.18: CTJ Responds to President's Jobs Council: What They Got Wrong about Corporate Taxes
2012.01.17: Romney Confirms CTJ Calculation of His Super-Low Tax Rate, Demonstrates Why We Need Buffett Rule
2012.01.17: The Huge Corporate Tax Issue that Obama's Jobs Council Can't Agree On
2012.01.12: Rhetoric vs. Reality: Judging the Latest from the GOP Presidential Candidates
2012.01.12: Comparing the GOP Presidential Candidates Tax Plans in Every State
2012.01.12: Oklahoma's Newest Tax "Reform" Plan Mirrors National Trend; Grim Details in New Analysis
2012.01.11: Trending in 2012: Destroying the Personal Income Tax
2012.01.11: Tax Cheaters Cost Law Abiding Taxpayers $385 Billion in a Single Year
2012.01.09: Congress Does Right by Doing Nothing on Ethanol
2011.12.22: Holiday Tradition of Democrats' End-of-Year Surrender Foiled by House GOP
2011.12.22: The Top Five Tax Myths to Watch Out for this Election Season
2011.12.22: Naughty States, Nice States: The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy's 2011 List
2011.12.22: States Losing $10 Billion in Gas Taxes Every Year; Solutions Available for Courageous Lawmakers
2011.12.22: CLOSE THE ROMNEY LOOPHOLE
2011.12.13: Putting a Cap on Gingrich's Tax Policy Hot Air
2011.12.09: Cuomo Reverses Course on Millionaires' Tax
2011.12.07: Senator Kyl Supports Middle-Class Tax Cuts Only if Paired with Far Larger Tax Cut for the Rich
2011.12.07: The Washington Post's Faulty "Fact Checker"
2011.12.02: CTJ Report: GOP's Tax Cuts Are FAR More Targeted to the Rich than Payroll Tax Cut, But Both Parties Ignore a Better Option
2011.12.02: CTJ Fact Sheet: Senate Couldn't Bear Richest One-Fifth of One Percent Paying 2.1 Percent of Income to Create Jobs
2011.12.02: Barney Frank, Tax Fairness Champion
2011.12.01: Cyber Monday '11: Record Setting Online Shopping Robs States of Sales Tax Revenue
2011.11.22: "Super Committee" Undone by Devotion to Tax Cuts
2011.11.18: State-by-State Estate Tax Figures Show that President's Plan Is Too Generous to Millionaires
2011.11.18: Taxing Capital Gains: A No Brainer for Washington State
2011.11.18: Conservative ALEC "Legislator of the Year" Defeated in Kentucky
2011.11.18: The Verdict Is In: Business Tax Breaks Do Not Create Jobs
2011.11.17: Senator Coburn's Faux Populism
2011.11.17: House Rejects Balanced Budget Amendment that could Double Unemployment during Recessions
2011.11.17: Michele Bachmann's Happy Meal Tax
2011.11.10: How We Are Changing the Conversation on Corporate Taxes
2011.11.10: TAX DODGER: GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE)
2011.11.10: TAX DODGER: HONEYWELL
2011.11.10: TAX DODGER: VERIZON
2011.11.10: TAX DODGER: WELLS FARGO
2011.11.10: TAX DODGER: DUKE ENERGY
2011.11.10: TAX DODGER: BOEING
2011.10.28: "THE U.S. ALREADY HAS BLOOD ON ITS HANDS": CTJ Attorney Fires Back at Opponents of Anti-Tax Evasion Rules During Hearing
2011.10.27: Missouri's Failed Special Session Fiasco
2011.10.27: Maryland Commission Omits Indispensible Piece of Gas Tax Reform: Credits for Low Income Families
2011.10.27: Earth to ET: Eliminating Property Taxes Would Hurt Most North Dakotans
2011.10.27: Kansas Governor Brownback Shutting Out the Public on Tax Debate
2011.10.27: Understanding State Estate and Inheritance Taxes
2011.10.26: "Territorial" Tax and "Revenue-Neutral" Corporate Tax Reform Opposed by National Organizations, Labor Unions, and Small Business Groups
2011.10.25: CTJ Statement on Rick Perry's Tax Plan
2011.10.21: House Republicans Invite Lobbyists to Write Bill to Exempt Corporations' Offshore Profits from Taxes
2011.10.21: Bizarre "Study" Claims Congress Can Raise Revenue by Repealing the Tax on Millionaires' Estates
2011.10.21: CTJ Director Recalls the Tax Reform Act of 1986
2011.10.21: New Report from CTJ: How to Implement the Buffett Rule
2011.10.21: Arkansas Results Prove Sales Tax Holiday is All Cost, No Benefit for States
2011.10.21: Pizza Deal from Hell? Cain Struggles to Defend 9-9-9 Plan from Fellow Republican Candidates, CTJ and Others
2011.10.21: Raising A Red Flag: Governor Brownback's Tax Plans Are Bad for Kansas
2011.10.14: New CTJ Fact Sheet: Four Ways to End Wall Street's Free Ride
2011.10.14: Three New Policy Briefs from ITEP
2011.10.14: New from National Priorities Project & CTJ: The Cost of the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich
2011.10.14: Warning to States: Don't Bet on Gambling Revenue
2011.10.14: Amazon.com Finds It Harder & Harder to Shirk Its Sales Tax Collecting Responsibilities
2011.10.07: Good Idea: Chicago Ponders Extending Sales Tax to Some Services (aka The Rahm Tax)
2011.10.05: Note to Senator Schumer: 3/4 of Married Couples with Incomes Between $250k and $300k would Keep All Their Bush Tax Cuts Under Obama Plan
2011.10.05: Governor Christie's Snooki Situation
2011.10.03: Making Property Tax Cuts Make Sense: Three Updated Policy Briefs
2011.09.30: Rare Consensus among Organizations Opposing Massive Campaign to Enact Repatriation Amnesty
2011.09.30: Massachusetts Goes For Tax Quick Fix
2011.09.30: Will Washington State's Citizens Raise Their Own Taxes?
2011.09.27: Republican Candidates Test Outer Limits of Their Own Anti-Tax Ideology
2011.09.27: What Are The Costs and Benefits of Oklahoma's Myriad Tax Breaks? No One Really Knows.
2011.09.23: DC Council Raises Taxes On High Earners
2011.09.23: Press Release: How 47 Governors Can Mitigate the Worsening Poverty in Their States
2011.09.23: Targeted Tax Credits That Ease Poverty: Two New State Policy Briefs Online
2011.09.23: Missouri Lawmakers Getting Cold Feet on Business Tax Subsidies
2011.09.20: CTJ's Statement on President Obama's Jobs and Deficit Plan
2011.09.17: Labor and Progressives Reject Administration's "Revenue-Neutral" Approach to Corporate Tax Reform
2011.09.16: Advocates of Low Taxes Admit that Clinton Era Rate Hikes Did Not Hurt the Economy
2011.09.16: The Preposterous Plans of a Kentucky Gubernatorial Candidate
2011.09.16: Tax Cuts Don't Create Jobs: 3 New Fact Sheets on State Economic Development
2011.09.14: Fact Checking the Tea Party Debate: Republican Candidates Stumble on Tax Issues
2011.09.14: Amid Grim Census Data on Poverty, Congress Should Reject Calls to Raise Taxes on Low-Income Families
2011.09.14: "Trickle Down" Budgeting in Minnesota Sends Schools and Localities Scrambling for Funds
2011.09.13: It's Not Just State Taxes, Municipal Taxes Are Lopsided Too
2011.09.09: President Obama Proposes Payroll Tax Holiday Nearly Equal in Size to Bush Income Tax Cuts for 2012
2011.09.08: Just the (Tax) Facts: GOP Candidates Parade Terrible Tax Ideas, Huntsman Bucks Grover Norquist
2011.09.08: Tax Breaks for Those Who Need It Least: 3 New Policy Briefs to Make State Income Tax Smarter
2011.09.08: Job Incentive Package Isn't In Peril - Program for Missouri Seniors and the Disabled Is
2011.09.07: How Louisiana Celebrates the Second Amendment: A Sales Tax Holiday for Guns
2011.09.06: Eating Spaghetti with a Knife and How a GOP Rep is Trying to Escape The No-New-Tax Pledge
2011.09.01: New Obama Advisor Krueger is Tax-Savvy, But Is He Tax-Smart?
2011.09.01: Michigan Governor Seeks Tax Cuts for Business, Again
2011.08.31: Corporate Tax Breaks & Loopholes in the States: Four New Policy Briefs from ITEP
2011.08.30: "Small Business" Tax Break in the House GOP's "Jobs Agenda" Was Rejected in 2009 -- for Good Reason
2011.08.29: Data on Top 20 Corporations Using Repatriation Amnesty Calls into Question Claims of New Democrat Network
2011.08.25: New York and New Jersey Governors Favor Unpopular Toll Increases, But Oppose Popular Tax Increases
2011.08.25: Colorado Voters Can Help State Overcome TABOR-Induced Woes This November
2011.08.25: Kansas & Missouri: Front Line States in Battle over Tax Fairness
2011.08.25: Maine Governor Proposes Regressive Tax Break for Seniors
2011.08.25: Some Minnesota Lawmakers Support Having Fewer Tools Available to Help Them Do Their Job
2011.08.25: Corporations Are People... Who Should Pay More Taxes
2011.08.24: Rick Perry's "Flat Tax" and "Fair Tax" Both Mean Higher Taxes for Most Americans, Lower Taxes for the Rich
2011.08.22: WSJ Accidentally Admits that 'Millionaires Go Missing' Because of Economy, Not Taxes
2011.08.19: Grover and the Gas Tax: Right on Extension, Wrong on State Opt-Out
2011.08.18: It's Time For A Federal Solution to Online Sales Tax Evasion
2011.08.17: New from CTJ: Texas's High Taxes on the Poor Belie Rick Perry's Statements that They Need to Pay More
2011.08.17: Getting State Personal Income Taxes Right: 3 New ITEP Policy Briefs Online
2011.08.17: Warren Buffett Is Right, the Wall Street Journal Is Wrong
2011.08.17: Cutting Food Sales Taxes: Right Intention, Wrong Policy
2011.08.12: Grover Norquist Real Winner of Republican Debate
2011.08.12: Four New Policy Briefs on How Taxes Work: A Crash Course on Tax Fairness Basics
2011.08.12: New York Localities Already Struggling Under Cuomo's Property Tax Cap
2011.08.11: Put Those Balloons and Streamers Away: ITEP Takes the Fun Out of Sales Tax Holidays
2011.08.11: Online Sales Tax War: A Lawsuit in Tennessee?
2011.08.11: Pelosi Picks Three Tax Fairness Champions for Deficit "Super Committee"
2011.08.11: Half of Deficit Reduction Could Come from Spending Cuts -- and That Half Is Done
2011.08.11: S&P Report Cites Bush Tax Cuts as a Reason for Downgrade
2011.08.09: Democrats on Super Committee Excel at Compromise, Unfortunately
2011.08.08: Verizon Pushes for $1 Billion in Concessions from Workers, While Receiving Nearly $1 Billion in Subsidies from Uncle Sam
2011.08.05: The Worst "Job Creation" Idea Yet: The "Life Sciences" Tax Break to Help Pharma & Biotech Companies Dodge Taxes
2011.08.04: Anonymous Owners of U.S. Shell Companies Now Funding Politics
2011.08.03: Gov. Deval Patrick Says One Thing, Does Another on Massachusetts Sales Tax Holiday
2011.08.03: Way to Go, Governor Branstad! Kick 'Em While They're Down
2011.08.02: CTJ Statement on Debt Ceiling Deal: Obama Breaks His Promise Again
2011.08.02: ABC's of State Taxes: New Policy Brief Rollout Continues
2011.08.02: Regressive Taxes Find a Friend in Kansas Governor Brownback
2011.08.02: Connecticut's Taxes Went Up Yesterday, But the Sky Didn't Fall
2011.07.28: All Cuts, No Revenues: Both Parties Abandon "Balanced Approach" in Debt Ceiling Proposals
2011.07.28: New CTJ Report: The Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act
2011.07.27: "Made in Missouri" Business Enticements Come at High Cost to Elderly Residents
2011.07.27: New State Policy Briefs Roll-Out Begins With Sales Tax Topics
2011.07.27: House Ways and Means Committee Considers a National Sales Tax Proposal that Would Increase Taxes on Low- and Middle-Income Households
2011.07.26: Press Release: Sales Tax Holidays: PR Bonanzas, Policy Boondoggles
2011.07.26: Does the U.S. Tax Code Contribute to Job Loss at Home? In a Word, Yes.
2011.07.21: Anti-Tax Forces Have Lost the Public. Will the White House Fight or Cave?
2011.07.21: Tax Dodgers in the Cross Hairs
2011.07.21: "Duck, Dodge, and Dismantle" Bill Passes House, Faces Defeat in Senate
2011.07.21: Illinois' First Corporate Income Tax Reform Hearing Concludes: No Surprise What Business Wants
2011.07.20: Minnesota Government Shutdown Over, But at What Cost?
2011.07.19: Wall Street Journal Begins Rewrite of Minnesota History
2011.07.15: Amazon.com Starts Big Push in Support of... Tax Evasion
2011.07.15: Minnesota Governor Dayton Surrenders on Tax Issue to End State's Shutdown
2011.07.15: New Tool Reveals ALEC's Role in the Anti-Tax Movement
2011.07.14: Senator Levin Introduces Bill to Crack Down on Tax Havens
2011.07.14: New Fact Sheet from CTJ: Both Sides of Debt Ceiling Talks Propose Increasing the Budget Deficit
2011.07.14: Chris Christie's Veto Pen - Mightier (and Meaner) Than Any Sword
2011.07.14: Caterpillar Inc. Accused of Dodging $2 Billion in U.S. Taxes
2011.07.14: Iowa Business Leaders Prefer Higher Fuel Tax to Crumbling Infrastructure
2011.07.13: Anti-Tax Lawmakers Cry Uncle in Debt Ceiling Talks?
2011.07.13: Minnesota Shutdown Standoff Continues Into Second Week
2011.07.13: The Real Reason GOP Leaders Want to Give Up the Debt Ceiling Fight: The Public Opposes Deficit-Reduction by Cutting Spending Alone
2011.07.13: Negative 15.8% Tax Rate Not Low Enough for GE: CEO Immelt Calls for Amnesty for Corporate Tax Dodgers
2011.07.07: Golden State GOP Blocks Popular Vote on Taxes Forcing Harsh Budget Cuts; Amazon Law Enacted
2011.07.07: Will GOP Leaders Push U.S. Towards Default by Blocking Revenue Increases?
2011.07.07: Where's the Evidence that GOP Leaders Are Reasonable about Revenue?
2011.07.07: How to Increase Tax Evasion and the Deficit in 1 Easy Step
2011.07.06: House Committee Approves Misnamed "Business Simplification" Bill
2011.07.06: Call Lawmakers to Oppose the Amnesty for Corporate Tax Dodgers
2011.07.06: Stalemate on Corporate Taxes Is Good News for Hawkeye State
2011.07.06: More Bogus "Research" from ALEC
2011.07.05: Illinois to Consider Corporate Demands for Lower Tax Rate
2011.07.01: Ohio Budget Has Priorities Backwards
2011.06.30: Advice for North Carolina on Gas Tax Policy: Don't Be Like Pennsylvania
2011.06.30: How Rhode Island Didn't Do the Wise Thing When It Had the Chance
2011.06.30: New Report from CTJ: U.S. One of the Least Taxed Developed Countries
2011.06.30: In Minnesota Budget Standoff, Gov. Dayton Fights the Good Fight
2011.06.30: New Hampshire: Tobacco Tax Cut Will Force Deeper Budget Cuts in 2012
2011.06.30: Oregon Bends Tax Credit Cost Curve
2011.06.30: Cuomo's Property Tax Cap is Bad News for New York
2011.06.29: New Jersey Gov. Christie Vows to Veto Widely Popular Millionaires' Tax
2011.06.29: Number of High Income Taxpayers Who Owe Nothing in Income Taxes Just Doubled
2011.06.24: As Tax Repatriation Gains Steam, Important Questions Need Answering
2011.06.23: Advice for North Carolina on Gas Tax Policy: Don't Be Like Pennsylvania
2011.06.22: Chuck Schumer's Amazing Double-Somersault on the Repatriation Holiday
2011.06.22: Most Extreme Balanced-Budget Amendment Ever Moves Forward in the House
2011.06.22: Grover Norquist Maneuvers Frantically to Avoid a Tiny Deviation from Anti-Tax Ideology
2011.06.22: What Is Congressman Jared Polis Thinking?
2011.06.22: Tar Heel State Could Become Tax Free Haven for Multistate Corporations
2011.06.22: Maine's New Budget Gives to the Rich and Takes from the Poor, Literally
2011.06.22: DC Council Passes Budget with Progressive Tax Increases
2011.06.22: Rhode Island Sunset Law Would Shore Up Tax Reform
2011.06.22: In Wisconsin, Governor Walker Chooses Corporations Over Kids
2011.06.17: Getting Taxes Wrong: Fact-Checking the Republican Primary Debate
2011.06.16: Illinois Must Ignore CME's Tax Tantrum: Statement from Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
2011.06.08: New from CTJ: Pawlenty Plan Would Cut Income Taxes for Richest 400 Americans by 73 Percent
2011.06.08: New from CTJ: Another Decade of Bush Tax Cuts Will Cost More than Twice as Much as the First Decade
2011.06.08: Mercatus Center Misses the Mark with "Simple" Tax Index
2011.06.08: State Tax Battles with Amazon.com Continue to Make Headlines
2011.06.08: Florida Governor Gives Mickey Mouse and Friends a Tax Break
2011.06.08: North Carolina's Other Choice
2011.06.08: Grover Norquist Loses Nevada
2011.06.06: Apple Store Shopping in Several Cities Interrupted by Protests Against Repatriation Holiday
2011.06.03: The Bush Tax Cuts After Ten Years
2011.06.02: Attorneys, Accountants, Brokers Convicted in $7 Billion Tax Shelter Case
2011.06.02: The Power of Sunsets (and Harm of Supermajority Requirements) on Display in Washington State
2011.06.02: Minnesota Governor Dayton Vetoes Budget Bills that Would Harm Working Families
2011.06.02: New York Property Taxes: Cap on Common Sense
2011.06.02: Ohio Estate Tax in Peril
2011.06.01: PROTEST AT APPLE STORES ON JUNE 4: Demand Apple Leave the Coalition Promoting Amnesty for Corporate Tax Dodgers
2011.06.01: CTJ REPORT PREVIEW IDENTIFIES 12 MAJOR CORPORATE TAX DODGERS
2011.05.26: CTJ Figures Used in Budget Debate Show Ryan Plan Would Give Huge Tax Cut to Millionaires
2011.05.25: One More Good Reason to Raise the (Regressive) Gas Tax
2011.05.25: ITEP Testifies in Rhode Island on Corporate Tax Avoidance and Sunset Bills
2011.05.25: North Carolina Senate GOP's Cuts-Only Approach
2011.05.25: Louisiana: Repeal of Income Taxes So Radical Even Governor Jindal Cannot Support It
2011.05.25: Tax Cuts Do Not Equal Tax Reform
2011.05.19: New Report from CTJ: People Who Make $250,000 Should Stop Worrying: Obama's Income Tax Plan Targets those Who Make Over $1 Million
2011.05.19: CTJ Testifies: America Should Not Be a Tax Haven
2011.05.19: Senate Republicans and Three Democrats Filibuster Repeal of Oil and Gas Tax Breaks Criticized by CTJ
2011.05.19: New Report from CTJ: 400 Highest-Income Americans Paid an Effective Rate of 18.1% in 2008
2011.05.19: State Governments Rush to Squander Improved Revenue Outlook
2011.05.19: A Mystery Solved: Why Florida Lawmakers Refused to Repeal the Corporate Income Tax This Year
2011.05.19: Wisconsin's Budget Doesn't Have to Trample on Working Families
2011.05.19: Kansas: Budget Battle Highlights Divisions Within Republican Party
2011.05.19: Missouri and Minnesota: Attacking Anti-Poverty Tax Breaks
2011.05.18: Corporate Tax Reform: Consumer Groups, Labor Unions, Faith-Based Groups at Odds with Obama on Goals
2011.05.13: Corporate Interests Push Congress to Exempt Offshore Profits Permanently (Territorial System) or Temporarily (Repatriation Holiday)
2011.05.13: Three Republicans and Three Democrats Introduce Amnesty for Corporate Tax Dodgers
2011.05.13: Microsoft-Skype Deal Shows Need for a True Worldwide Corporate Tax
2011.05.13: Hawaii Passes Budget Limiting Upside-Down Tax Giveaways
2011.05.13: Massive Business Tax Cuts Coming to Michigan, but EITC is Saved at Last Minute
2011.05.13: Colorado Repeals Tax Loophole that Made Tom Cruise a "Farmer"
2011.05.13: New ITEP Report: States Should Look to Connecticut on Tax Policy
2011.05.13: Rhode Island Considers Progressive Approach
2011.05.13: Can Georgia's Tax Reformers Overcome Grover Norquist?
2011.05.13: Nevada Considers Sales Tax Reform
2011.05.10: SPEAKER BOEHNER CALLS FOR "TERRITORIAL" TAX SYSTEM; WOULD EXEMPT CORPORATE PROFITS SHIFTED OFFSHORE
2011.05.06: Organizations: Sign Onto Letter Urging Congress to Raise Revenue by Eliminating Corporate Tax Loopholes
2011.05.06: CTJ Blasts Misnamed "Simplification" Bill for Business Taxes
2011.05.06: So Much for "Liberal Bias" at The New York Times
2011.05.06: Connecticut Passes a Pro-Tax, Pro-Government Budget
2011.05.06: Amazon Throws Temper Tantrum, Leaves South Carolina
2011.05.06: Arkansas & Oklahoma: "No New Taxes" Pledge Trumps Democracy for Grover Norquist
2011.05.06: North Dakota: The Only State with Money to Spare, Determined to Waste It
2011.04.29: Report from CTJ: Congress Should End Oil & Gas Tax Breaks
2011.04.29: Florida Governor Rick Scott's Anti-Tax Platform Largely Rejected
2011.04.29: Anti-Tax Activist, Author of Colorado's "TABOR," Arrested for Tax Evasion
2011.04.29: Iowa Governor Chooses Corporations Over Iowans
2011.04.29: Missouri's Crumbling Corporate Tax System
2011.04.29: New Hampshire Lawmakers Discuss Business Tax Breaks After Slashing Childcare and Higher Education
2011.04.22: ITEP Data Helps Move Connecticut Budget Debate to a Fairer Outcome
2011.04.22: Victory in South Dakota: Studying Tax Expenditures
2011.04.22: Louisiana Coalition: "Pushing a Rock Up Hill"
2011.04.22: Report Explains How (and Why) States Must Close Hotel Tax Loophole
2011.04.22: Undocumented Immigrants Pay Taxes
2011.04.15: CTJ's Tax Day Report: America's Tax System Is Not as Progressive as You Think
2011.04.15: Honeywell Responds to CTJ, Explains How It Avoided Taxes
2011.04.15: CTJ Explains Why Business Roundtable Report on Effective Tax Rates Is Hogwash
2011.04.15: TAKE ACTION ON TAX DAY
2011.04.15: Obama Blasts Ryan Budget Plan
2011.04.15: A Balanced Approach: Revenues Make Up Over 40 Percent of DC Mayor Vince Gray's Budget Fix
2011.04.15: Sales Tax Reform Debated in Rhode Island
2011.04.15: New Tools in the Campaign for Tax Fairness in North Carolina
2011.04.12: How You Can Take a Stand for Tax Fairness This Week
2011.04.12: Briefings in D.C. on Tax Havens on April 14
2011.04.08: New Report from CTJ: House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's Goal Is to Shrink Government, Not the Deficit
2011.04.08: New from ITEP: States Should Not Allow Amazon.com to Bully Them into Forgoing Sales Tax Reform
2011.04.08: New ITEP Report Recommends States Decouple from Recent Federal Tax Cuts for Wealthy Itemizers
2011.04.08: Missouri Voters Give Equivalent of Standing Ovation to Earnings Taxes in Kansas City and St. Louis
2011.04.08: Tax Reform Debate in Georgia So Heated that Tea Partiers and Grover Norquist Can't Agree
2011.04.08: 'Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ': Bruce Springsteen Letter Puts Gov. Christie in the 'Lion's Den'
2011.04.08: Do Twitter and Red Lobster Need Local Tax Breaks?
2011.04.01: CTJ Op-Ed in USA Today Calls for Revenue-Positive Corporate Tax Reform
2011.04.01: New ITEP Report on States With Deductions for Federal Income Taxes Paid
2011.04.01: The Millionaire Migration Myth: Don't Fall for This Anti-Tax Scare Tactic
2011.04.01: Why Reducing Income Tax Volatility Won't Fix State Budget Woes
2011.04.01: What Next for Illinois?
2011.04.01: Conservatives Slam Sarah Palin for Taking Government Handout She Enacted
2011.04.01: Tax Justice Victory in Arizona: Flat Tax Bill Dies in Senate
2011.04.01: Grocery Tax Cuts Enacted in Arkansas and West Virginia
2011.03.25: STOP THE AMNESTY FOR CORPORATE TAX DODGERS
2011.03.25: Grover Norquist Attacks Republicans for their Insufficient Extremism
2011.03.25: Tom Cruise: Actor, Producer, Farmer
2011.03.25: Tax Cutting Mania: Iowa and Kansas
2011.03.25: California Republicans Won't Allow Voters a Say on Tax Hikes
2011.03.25: Mining and Oil Lobbyists Extracting Major Benefits from States
2011.03.25: G.E. EXPOSED AS WORLD CLASS TAX DODGER
2011.03.18: CTJ Op-Ed: Sorry, Newt. You Never Balanced the Budget
2011.03.18: Congresswoman Schakowsky Proposes Millionaires Tax as Alternative to Cutting Education, Health and Other Programs
2011.03.18: Missouri: Good, Bad, and the Really Ugly
2011.03.18: Trouble Brewing in Ohio
2011.03.18: Minnesota: This is What Effective Incidence Analysis Looks Like
2011.03.18: Are Amazon.com's Sales Tax Avoidance Days Coming to an End?
2011.03.18: Request a Printed Copy of the ITEP Guide
2011.03.11: CTJ Director Robert McIntyre: "President Obama Is Seriously Off Track" on Revenue-Neutral Goal for Corporate Tax Reform
2011.03.11: New ITEP Analysis: Michigan Business Tax Cuts Would Be Paid for with Sharply Regressive Tax Hikes
2011.03.11: New ITEP Report: Five Reasons to Reinstate Maryland's "Millionaires' Tax"
2011.03.11: New Hampshire Hops on Supermajority Bandwagon
2011.03.11: Wisconsin: Aren't There Better Ways to Spend $36 Million?
2011.03.11: Debates Heating Up Over Broadening the Income Tax Base to Include Retirement Income
2011.03.11: North Carolina Republicans Propose Tax Increase on the Poor
2011.03.11: Rhode Island Governor Would Improve Tax System, But Could Do Better
2011.03.04: New ITEP Report Released This Week Offers Tax Reform Guidance to Cash-Strapped States
2011.03.04: Michigan Governor Wants the Elderly and Poor to Pay Much More, so that Businesses Can Pay Much Less
2011.03.04: South Carolina Considers Turning its Property Tax into Something Else Entirely
2011.03.04: New York Governor Cuomo Near to Killing Millionaires Tax
2011.03.03: Wisconsin's Historic Budget Debate Is About More than Collective Bargaining
2011.02.25: Patently Bad Idea: Tax Strategy Patents
2011.02.25: New from CTJ: Boeing's Reward for Paying No Federal Taxes Over Last Three Years? A $35 Billion Federal Contract
2011.02.25: Millionaire Migration Claims Fall Flat in the Media
2011.02.25: Riding a Tax Justice Roller Coaster in Missouri
2011.02.25: Iowa: Facts Ignored By State House
2011.02.25: The Debate Isn't Over: Georgia Brief on Alternatives to Council's Recommendations
2011.02.18: Preliminary Analysis of President Obama's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget: Plan Would Make Permanent 81 Percent of the Bush Tax Cuts
2011.02.18: Glimmers of Hope on Taxes in the States
2011.02.18: Virginia Governor Says No to EITC Expansion, Yes to Corporate Tax Breaks to Pull Kids Out of Public Schools
2011.02.18: If the State Auditor Can't Estimate It, Then It's Very Likely Too Radical a Shift
2011.02.18: States Take a Knife to One of Their Major Arteries: Corporate Income Taxes
2011.02.18: Tax Avoider Amazon.com Messes with Texas
2011.02.16: Authors of New York Study Claiming Millionaires Fleeing Reach New Low and Just Make Up Numbers
2011.02.11: Geithner Rejects Sen. Barbara Boxer's Proposal for Tax Holiday for Corporations' Offshore Profits
2011.02.11: Obama Proposes Fixes to Unemployment Insurance Financing
2011.02.11: Super Bowl Ad about Taxes from Corporate Astroturf Group
2011.02.11: Tax Giveaways for Big Business Continue to be Sold as Economic Panacea
2011.02.11: Tax Reform: Good Ideas in Colorado and Kentucky, Bad Ideas in Iowa
2011.02.11: Ohio Governor: Get Mojo Back by Slashing Taxes for Wealthy Investors
2011.02.11: Will Michigan Cut Its EITC to Help Pay for Tax Cuts for Businesses?
2011.02.04: U.S. Corporations Are Paying Even Less in Taxes than Recently Reported
2011.02.04: Anti-Tax Lawmakers Look to Cement Their Legacy
2011.02.04: Will New York Extend Its High-Income Tax Surcharge?
2011.02.04: Georgia's Tax Reform Council Practically Begs for Grover Norquist's Support by Promising Not to Raise Enough Revenue
2011.02.04: South Dakota: Sales Tax on Food Debate Heats Up
2011.02.04: What Would the World Look Like If the Tea Party Was In Charge? Look to Nassau County
2011.02.04: New Resources
2011.02.04: Work for CTJ & ITEP
2011.01.31: New Report from CTJ: The Tax Cheaters' Lobby Is Wrong about New IRS Proposed Regulations
2011.01.31: CTJ Responds to State of the Union Address
2011.01.31: Bright Spots for Tax Policy from States with Good Ideas
2011.01.31: To States Trying to Lure Illinois Businesses: It's Not Just the Tax Rates, Stupid
2011.01.31: Migration Myth Moves to Rhode Island
2011.01.31: Prioritizing Corporations Over People in New Jersey
2011.01.31: State-Based Coalitions Fight for Budget Fairness
2011.01.21: Will the Tax Cheaters' Lobby Stop the IRS from Catching Foreign Tax Evaders?
2011.01.21: A Tale of Two Tax Commissions: Georgia vs. Vermont
2011.01.21: Lawmakers in Four States Want to Make Tax Reform Even More Difficult
2011.01.21: Ohioans Battle Stormy Conditions
2011.01.21: The Specter of the So-Called "Fair Tax" Rises Again in Missouri
2011.01.21: Bad and Less Bad: Business Tax Cuts vs. Grocery Tax Cuts
2011.01.14: Flood of Bad Tax Ideas Coming from the States
2011.01.14: ITEP Releases New Report on Capital Gains Tax Breaks in the States
2011.01.14: Tax Reform in Illinois
2011.01.14: Governor Jerry Brown Enters California's Budget Battle
2011.01.14: New Resource on Refundable Tax Credits for Low-Income Families
2011.01.14: New Project to Focus on Fiscal Issues in Kentucky
2011.01.07: House GOP Changes Rules to Facilitate Tax Cuts that Increase the Deficit
2011.01.07: More on the Journal's Bogus Oregon Migration Story
2011.01.07: New Law Requires Tax Breaks to Be Reviewed Alongside Other Programs
2011.01.07: Local Governments and Loopholes in Wisconsin's Tax Structure
2011.01.07: New Hampshire: GOP Lawmakers Respond to Budget Gap with Tax Cuts
2010.12.23: The Wall Street Journal and "Missing Millionaires": Evolution of a Lie
2010.12.22: Wall Street Journal Wrong Again on State Migration
2010.12.17: CONGRESS PAYS THE RANSOM: TAX CUTS FOR MILLIONAIRES
2010.12.17: CTJ's Online Tax Calculator, State-by-State Figures, on the Compromise Tax Plan
2010.12.17: New York's Next Governor Will "Aggressively" Push for Property Tax Cap
2010.12.17: Minnesota Gets a Pro-Tax Justice Governor
2010.12.17: Debate Over Capital Gains Taxation in Arkansas
2010.12.17: Worst Idea on the Table for 2011: Cutting State EITCs
2010.12.16: Tax Cut Advocates Making Tax Reform Impossible
2010.12.10: Report from CTJ: Compromise Tax Cut Plan Tilts Heavily in Favor of the Well-Off
2010.12.10: New Report from ITEP: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 2010 State Tax Policy Changes
2010.12.10: State Transparency Report Card and Other Resources Released
2010.12.10: New Jersey Think Tank Examines Governor Christie's Income Tax Returns
2010.12.10: Georgia Tax Exemptions Under the Microscope
2010.12.10: Big Doings in South Dakota
2010.12.10: Tax Extenders Study Would Signal Commitment to Both Tax Reform and Deficit Reduction
2010.12.06: Senate Republicans & Five Democrats Block Full Tax Cut Extension for 98% of Taxpayers & UI Benefits
2010.12.03: House Republicans Vote En Masse Against Full Tax Cuts for 98% and Partial Tax Cuts for 2%
2010.12.03: Refundable Credits for Low-Income Families Included in Tax Bills
2010.12.03: Call Your Senators Now and Tell Them to Let the Tax Cuts for the Rich Expire
2010.12.03: New Report from CTJ: Married Couples Earning $250k-$300k Would Lose Only 1% of Their Bush Tax Cuts under Obama Plan
2010.12.03: New Report from U.S. Chamber Watch & CTJ: The U.S. Chamber's Fight to Protect Its Richest Corporate CEOs' Wallets
2010.12.03: CTJ's Statement on the Unbalanced Deficit Plan Rejected by President's Fiscal Commission
2010.12.03: State Tax Code Spending Under Fire
2010.12.03: Arkansas: Task Force Unveils Anti-Poverty Recommendations
2010.12.03: Louisiana: New Coalition Launched in the Pelican State
2010.11.19: TELL CONGRESS: Don't Choose Tax Cuts for the Rich Over Help for the Unemployed
2010.11.19: Not Just a Tax Cut: CTJ Exposes the Folly of John Boehner's "CutGO"
2010.11.19: Maryland Business Tax Reform Commission Says Tax Avoidance Creates Economic Growth
2010.11.19: NOW THAT'S IDEOLOGICAL: Florida's Tea Partiers Oppose Taxes that Businesses Ask to Pay
2010.11.19: Bob Costas Gets His Cut of Missouri's Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits
2010.11.19: Report Concludes Repealing Virginia's Corporate Income Tax Would Be Disastrous
2010.11.19: Two States Turning Their Back on Federal Stimulus Dollars; Another Stands Ready to Take the Money
2010.11.16: Tell Congress: Don't Cut Off Help for the Unemployed and Slash Taxes for Millionaires!
2010.11.12: New Report from CTJ: The Bush Tax Cuts and Small Businesses
2010.11.12: The New CTJ Report that the Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs Need to Read: The U.S. Is One of the Least Taxed Countries
2010.11.12: Pew-Peterson Commission Agrees with CTJ on Tax Expenditure Reform
2010.11.12: Looming Minnesota Recount Has Sinister Implications for Tax Policy
2010.11.12: Tax Overhaul on the Horizon in Kansas
2010.11.12: Following the Money in Missouri
2010.11.12: Florida Group Focuses on Loss of Two Major Progressive Revenue Sources
2010.11.05: Results of Tax-Related Ballot Initiatives
2010.11.05: Gubernatorial Candidates with Progressive Positions on Taxes Who Won
2010.11.05: Voters Embrace Higher Taxes at the Local Level
2010.11.04: No Regrets, Madam Speaker
2010.10.28: Federal Tax Policy and Election 2010: CTJ's Federal Tax Resources
2010.10.28: State Tax Policy and Election 2010: CTJ's News about Races and Ballot Measures in Your State
2010.10.28: CTJ Responds to Attack from Anti-Estate Tax Foundation
2010.10.28: Opposition to Closing Corporate Tax Loopholes Called "Defining Moment" in New Mexico's Gubernatorial Campaign
2010.10.28: News from the Gubernatorial Race in Texas
2010.10.28: News from the Gubernatorial Race in New York
2010.10.28: Hawaii Gubernatorial Candidates Agree On Most Fiscal Issues, Except Some of the Most Important
2010.10.28: Foolish Tax Cutting Proposed by Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate
2010.10.22: Will Google Get an Amnesty for Shifting Its Profits to Offshore Tax Havens?
2010.10.22: State Tax Issues on the Ballot on Election Day
2010.10.22: Combating Tax Cuts with Slightly Better Tax Cuts in Iowa
2010.10.21: State Fact Sheets -- President Obama Cut Taxes for 98 Percent of Working Americans
2010.10.15: Another Voice in Favor of Tax Expenditure Reduction and Reform
2010.10.15: More Tax Cuts for the Rich in New Jersey?
2010.10.15: Georgia Gubernatorial Candidates Dueling (Bad) Tax Cut Proposals
2010.10.15: Kasich at Odds with Ohio's Best and Brightest
2010.10.08: CTJ Updates Online Tax Calculator
2010.10.08: Norquist's "No New Taxes" Pledge Loses Its Sway in Arizona
2010.10.08: ITEP Figures Used to Explain Need for Tax Reform
2010.10.08: New Jersey Governor Passes Up $6 Billion in Funds for Subway Tunnel -- to Save the State $2.7 Billion
2010.10.04: Long Hostage Standoff Over Tax Cuts
2010.10.04: CTJ's Reports on the Debate Over the Tax Cuts
2010.10.04: Wall Street Journal Blogger Suggests that the Journal's Editorial Board (and Grover Norquist) Are Exaggerating the Negative Effects of Taxing the Rich
2010.10.04: Ballot Round Up Continued
2010.10.04: Tax News in Gubernatorial Races Across the Country
2010.10.04: Will Idaho Balance Its Budget by Making Food More Expensive for the Poor?
2010.09.28: New 50 State ITEP Report Released: State Tax Policies CAN Help Reduce Poverty
2010.09.28: ITEP Identifies Fundamental Mismatch in 6 State Tax Structures
2010.09.28: New Report from CTJ: Group of House Democrats Support Tax Preferences for Wealthy Investor Class that President Reagan Ended
2010.09.28: Ballot Round Up
2010.09.28: Gubernatorial Candidates in Idaho, Minnesota, and Alaska Are Talking Taxes
2010.09.21: Extending Tax Cuts for the Rich Is Only the Beginning for the Tea Party
2010.09.17: New Data from CTJ Shows How Obama Tax Plan and Senate Republicans' Tax Plan Affect Taxpayers in Each State and Each Congressional District
2010.09.17: Bad Tax Ideas from Five Gubernatorial Races
2010.09.17: The Time is Ripe for North Carolina to Renew Tax Reform Commitment
2010.09.17: Ohio: Can We Get an "Amen?"
2010.09.10: President Reaffirms Commitment to Extend Tax Cuts for 98%; House GOP Leader Fights for the Richest 2%
2010.09.10: House GOP Leader Proposes to (Literally) Go Back to Bush Tax and Spending Policies
2010.09.10: Closing the Barn Door in Georgia: Tax Reform Commission Analyzes Options for Repairing Georgia Tax System
2010.09.10: What You Should Know Candidates are Saying About Taxes
2010.09.10: Pennsylvania Severance Tax in Trouble
2010.08.27: New ITEP Report Examines Five Options for Reforming State Itemized Deductions
2010.08.27: A New Report from the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Lays Out Options for the Tax Reform Council That Advance Fairness and Adequacy
2010.08.27: Let the Buckeye State Be a Warning for the Other 49
2010.08.25: House Minority Leader Says that Loophole-Closing Provisions in Jobs Bill Would Push Jobs Offshore -- When the Exact Opposite Is True
2010.08.20: More Polls Show Majority Want Tax Cuts for the Rich to Expire, More Analysts Confirm that It Won't Hurt the Economy
2010.08.20: California Lawmakers: Paralyzed by Volatiliphobia?
2010.08.20: South Carolina Sales Tax Reform Proposal is Flawed in at Least Two Important Ways
2010.08.20: Showdown Over Taxes in Minnesota
2010.08.10: Here is why "Meet the Press" isn't worth listening to
2010.08.09: This blog has moved
2010.08.06: National Organizations Demand That Congress Allow the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich to Expire
2010.08.06: New Report from CTJ: House Republican Study Committee Tax Plan Would Add Almost $7 Trillion to America's National Debt and Further Enrich the Wealthiest
2010.08.06: Speaker Pelosi Calls House Back into Session to Provide Medicaid and Education Funding, and Close Offshore Corporate Tax Loopholes
2010.08.06: Sales Tax Holidays: Good for Little More than a Laugh
2010.08.06: New York State Passes Final Budget, Does Not Take on Hedge Funds
2010.08.06: New Jersey Governor and CTJ Find (Rare) Agreement on Homebuyer Tax Credit
2010.08.03: Ever wonder what the GOP alternative to Obama's tax plan is?
2010.07.30: Coming this Fall: Big Decisions on the Bush Tax Cuts
2010.07.30: Follow CTJ on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
2010.07.30: Citizens for Tax Justice Joins Over 70 Organizations in Support of the Responsible Estate Tax Act
2010.07.30: Congress Revives Legislation to Prevent Abuses of Foreign Tax Credits
2010.07.30: Frustrated by Political Obstacles to Reform, Missouri Governor Appoints Tax Credit Review Commission in Hopes of Sparking Change
2010.07.30: Update on South Carolina's Tax Deform Commission
2010.07.30: Budget Holes in Massachusetts
2010.07.30: Georgia Begins Tax Reform Discussions
2010.07.30: New York State Budget Still Unresolved
2010.07.23: Blogger Behind Sherrodgate Targets Citizens for Tax Justice
2010.07.23: Small Businesses Launch Campaign Against Offshore Tax Havens
2010.07.23: Wealthy Americans Come Out in Favor of a Robust Estate Tax
2010.07.23: Reports of My Estate Tax Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Estate Tax Would Not Force Steinbrenner Family to Sell the Yankees
2010.07.23: Reforms in Rep. Quigley's New Bill Could Help Temper Lawmakers' Obsession with Tax Breaks
2010.07.16: New Report from CTJ: Douglas Holtz-Eakin Peddles Myths about the Bush Tax Cuts
2010.07.16: Senate Republicans: $35 Billion for Unemployed Is Too Much, But a Trillion in Tax Cuts for the Rich Pays for Itself!
2010.07.16: The Only Sure Thing Is Death (But Not Taxes)
2010.07.16: Cock-a-Doodle-Do in Louisiana
2010.07.16: It's Nearly that Time of the Year... Sales Tax Holidays in the News
2010.07.16: State Governments Continue to Throw Money at Businesses with No Promise of Benefits in Return
2010.07.16: Time to Close the Internet Tax Loophole
2010.07.09: New Report from CTJ: What Oil and Gas Companies Extract from the American Public
2010.07.09: FAIR Uses Bogus Figures to Attack Immigration
2010.07.09: Ballot Initiatives in the States: The Good News
2010.07.09: Ballot Initiatives in the States: The Bad News
2010.07.09: New Jersey Property Tax Cap: Putting the Cart before the Horse
2010.06.25: Criminals, Inc.: Delaware's Fight to Keep Opaque Incorporation Rules Is Helping Tax Cheats and Terrorists
2010.06.25: Minority of Senators Block Jobs and "Tax Extenders" Bill -- No Resolution in Sight
2010.06.25: California Considers Pulling Back the Curtain on Tax Breaks for Special Interests
2010.06.25: North Carolina Senate Seeks to Eliminate Penalty for Corporate Tax Dodgers
2010.06.25: Can New Jersey Cap Hypocrisy on Taxes?
2010.06.25: Gubernatorial Race Heats Up in the Land of 10,000 Lakes
2010.06.18: Defenders of Tax Loopholes Continue Battle Against Jobs and "Extenders" Bill
2010.06.18: New Jersey Lawmakers to Attempt to Override Governor's Veto of Millionaire's Tax
2010.06.18: Drama with State Film Tax Credits: Propaganda, Criminal Charges, and Sitcom Stars Make Headlines
2010.06.18: Anti-Tax Lawmakers in Arizona Have No Idea What Their Constituents Want
2010.06.18: In Meg Whitman's World, 2 Cent Gas Tax Hike in 1981 Equals "A Record of Higher and Higher Taxes"
2010.06.11: Senate Continues Battle Over Bill on Jobs, "Extenders," and Loophole-Closers
2010.06.11: Maine Voters Say: Please Hike My Taxes!
2010.06.11: Estate Tax Revival and Itemized Deduction Limitation Key to Shoring Up Hawaii's Budget
2010.06.11: Rhode Island Makes Some Gains for Tax Fairness, But Leaves Revenue Needs Unaddressed
2010.06.11: Georgia Governor Slashes Low-Income Credit -- But Vetoes Capital Gains Break for Wealthy Investors
2010.06.04: BATTLE RAGES OVER JOBS AND "EXTENDERS" BILL
2010.06.04: CRACKS IN THE FACADE: Some Investment Fund Managers, and Republican Senators, Agree that "Carried Interest" Loophole Is Unjustified
2010.06.04: New "Compromise" Floated by Chamber of Commerce Would Gut the Carried Interest Provision
2010.06.04: Leaders of California Senate and Assembly Agree That Recently Enacted Corporate Tax Break Is Unaffordable
2010.06.04: Voting on the "Maine Miracle" Tax Reform
2010.05.27: Will Senate Dems Allow Aid to Unemployed, Jobs and Medicare Funds to Expire in Order to Save Loophole for Millionaire Investment Fund Managers?
2010.05.27: More States Join the Majority in Producing Tax Expenditure Reports -- Only Seven Holdouts Remain
2010.05.27: Poll Shows Washingtonians Support Progressive Income Tax Proposal
2010.05.21: CALL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: Urge Them to Pass the Jobs and Extenders Bill (H.R. 4213)
2010.05.21: Arlen Specter, Proponent of Regressive "Flat Tax," Loses Primary Battle
2010.05.21: Progressive Organizations Blast Attempt by Senators to Slash the Federal Tax on the Estates of Millionaires
2010.05.21: Ballot Victory in Arizona Shows Anti-Tax Sentiment Not Nearly as Strong as Many Believe
2010.05.21: Georgia Making Tax Laws Friendly for People Who Live Off Investment Income, Rather than Work
2010.05.21: Kentucky Special Session: Missed Opportunity
2010.05.13: BILL CLINTON IS WRONG ABOUT THE VAT
2010.05.13: New CTJ Report: Extending Bush Tax Cuts for High-Income "Small Business" Owners Would Further Enrich the Wealthiest Taxpayers While Doing Nothing to Create Jobs
2010.05.13: New CTJ Report: Will the "Carried Interest" Loophole Finally Be Closed?
2010.05.13: Congress May Close International Tax Treaty Loophole
2010.05.13: Why Financial Institutions Should Pay a Fee as President Obama Proposes
2010.05.13: Florida Approves Hundreds of Millions in Tax Cuts (Including Credits for Yachts Worth Over $300k) Amid $6 Billion Shortfall
2010.05.13: Pawlenty: Taxes on the Rich Kill Jobs, So Lets Raise Taxes on the Poor Instead
2010.05.13: Kansas Misses Chance for Real Tax Reform, But Does Add Progressive Offset to Sales Tax Rate Hike
2010.05.07: The Real "Out of Control Spending": Missouri Accidentally Spends Over $1 Billion More Than it Intended on Special Tax Breaks
2010.05.07: Yoga Lobby Tries to Block Tax Fairness Initiative
2010.05.07: Positive Tax Reform Efforts Underway in Washington State
2010.05.07: Revenue Raising in Minnesota
2010.04.22: New from CTJ: Republican Approach to Extending the Bush Tax Cuts Would Result in $54,600 Break for Richest 1% and Higher Taxes for Middle Class, Compared to Obama's Approach
2010.04.22: New CTJ Report on Tax Expenditures
2010.04.22: Sign-On Letter for Organizations in Support of Refundable Tax Credits
2010.04.22: Bad Tax Reform Ideas? Georgia's Got 'Em
2010.04.16: The Oklahoman Embraces Good Tax Policy Principles, But Can They Apply Them?
2010.04.14: New Report from CTJ: All Americans Pay Taxes
2010.04.14: Take Action on Tax Day
2010.04.14: Leaving Money On the Table
2010.04.13: New State-by-State Figures Show that Obama Cut Taxes in 2009 for 98 Percent of Working Americans
2010.04.09: Be Informed and Take Action on Tax Day
2010.04.09: Alabama's Tax System Redistributes Wealth from the Poor to the Rich -- and Alabama Lawmakers Apparently Like it that Way
2010.04.02: Coalition of Public Interest Organizations Calls on Congress to Preserve a Robust Federal Tax on the Estates of Millionaires
2010.04.02: AND SO IT BEGINS: Big Business Takes Aim at Parts of Health Care Reform
2010.04.02: How to Fix State Budgets and Help the Economy
2010.04.02: Oklahoma Group Proposes Eliminating Ridiculous State Income Tax Deduction for State Income Taxes
2010.04.02: Finally, a Good Tax Proposal Out of Arizona
2010.04.02: States Seek to Increase Sales Tax Revenue Without Changing their Tax Rates
2010.04.02: The Wall Street Journal and the Maryland Millionaire Migration Myth
2010.03.26: HEALTH CARE VICTORY
2010.03.26: How Health Care Was Reformed (and Financed Partly with a Progressive Tax)
2010.03.26: The Tea Party and Misconceptions about Taxes
2010.03.26: Maryland's Ongoing Millionaire Migration Myth
2010.03.26: New Mexico Governor Uses Line-Item Veto to Remove Regressive Food Tax from State Budget
2010.03.26: Georgia Lawmakers Propose Cut in the Low Income Credit
2010.03.19: New Report from CTJ: Tax Provisions in Recent Jobs Legislation
2010.03.19: Democratic Leaders Revise Medicare Tax Change in Health Care Reform Compromise
2010.03.19: Dispatch from Anti-Tax La La Land: Health Care Edition
2010.03.19: New Jersey Governor's Budget: Painful Cuts, Terrible Ideas, and Glaring Hypocrisy
2010.03.19: New Jersey's First Tax Expenditure Report: A Disappointment
2010.03.19: Arizona Repeals Children's Health Insurance: Taking "Penny Wise, Pound Foolish" to a New Level
2010.03.19: Pro-Tax Rally in Baldwin County, Alabama Provides Glimpse at Oft-Overlooked Side of American Public Opinion
2010.03.12: New CTJ Report on Rep. Ryan's House GOP Budget Plan: Federal Government Would Collect $2 Trillion Less Over a Decade and Yet Require Bottom 90 Percent to Pay Higher Taxes
2010.03.12: The President's Medicare Tax Reform: The Facts Are Not in Dispute
2010.03.12: Senate Passes "Tax Extenders" (aka Business Tax Breaks) as Part of Jobs Bill
2010.03.12: Truth and Nonsense about Progressive Solutions to State Budget Crises
2010.03.10: Amazon Continues Its Tax Avoidance Efforts
2010.03.05: New Report from CTJ: President's Medicare Tax Reform Would Affect about 2% of Taxpayers and End the Exemption for Wealthy Investors
2010.03.05: Senate Passes 30-Day Extension of Help for Unemployed; Paris Hilton Tax Break on Hold
2010.03.05: Senate Seeks to Close the "Black Liquor" Loophole
2010.03.05: New Mexico Legislature Passes Tax Hike Package, Scales Back Regressivity of Earlier Proposals
2010.03.05: State Tax Cuts Are Not Stimulus
2010.02.26: President Obama's Health Care Proposal Includes Reform of Medicare Tax Championed by CTJ
2010.02.26: Senate Republicans: No Aid for Unemployed Unless Millionaires Get Break on Estate Tax
2010.02.26: Washington State Lawmakers Prepare to Increase Taxes to Help Fill Budget Gap
2010.02.26: Need for Tax Increase Becomes Increasingly Obvious in Illinois
2010.02.19: New Report from CTJ: Senator Specter's "Flat Tax" Cuts Taxes for the Richest 5% and Raises Taxes for Everyone Else
2010.02.19: New IRS Data Show that Income of the Richest 400 Grows While their Effective Tax Rate Declines
2010.02.19: Minnesota: Gov Pawlenty's Budget Slashes Health Care and Education, Doles Out Millions in Corporate Tax Breaks
2010.02.19: State Budget Deficits Drive Greater Interest in Examining Tax Breaks
2010.02.10: New CTJ Report on President Obama's FY2011 Budget Proposal: The Federal Government Should Collect at Least as Much Revenue as Obama Proposes
2010.02.09: Obama Budget Continues to Delay Taking a Closer Look at Tax Breaks
2010.02.08: New York: Report Recommends Improvements to Proposed Circuit Breaker
2010.02.08: The Way Forward in Illinois
2010.02.08: Mississippi Think Tank Calls for Balanced Approach to Revenue Shortfall
2010.01.30: Nevada GOP Gubernatorial Candidate: Scrap the Caps
2010.01.29: President's State of the Union Address Acknowledges - Partially - the Problems with the Bush Tax Cuts
2010.01.29: A Victory for Oregon and Oregonians
2010.01.29: Utah Legislator Advocates Tax Hike on the Rich as New Polling Shows Majority of Utahns Favor Higher Taxes
2010.01.29: Legislators Promote Progressive Tax Proposal as Fix for New Mexico Budget Gap
2010.01.29: ITEP Analysis Demonstrates the So-Called "Fair Tax" in Missouri Would Cut Taxes for the Richest 5 Percent, Hike Taxes for the Other 95 Percent
2010.01.22: Message to Lawmakers Who Favor Health Care Reform: Keep Calm and Carry On
2010.01.22: Oregon: Tuesday Vote on Tax Issues in Measures 66 and 67
2010.01.22: Rhode Island: Gubernatorial Candidates Know a Good Idea When They See It
2010.01.22: Indiana: Costly and Poorly-Targeted Property Tax Caps will be on the Ballot this November
2010.01.22: South Carolina: New Details Released Showing that Boeing Subsidy Package Approaches $1 Billion
2010.01.15: Congress May Close a Gap in the Medicare Tax to Help Fund Health Care Reform
2010.01.15: The Second Coming of Pete Peterson
2010.01.15: Iowa Governor Declares Tax Credit Reform a Top Priority Following Release of New Recommendations
2010.01.15: New Jersey Finally Joins Majority of States Producing Tax Expenditure Reports
2010.01.15: Details of South Carolina Subsidy Package Released Just as New Report Highlights Failure of Tax Incentives
2010.01.15: Pennsylvania Turns To Gambling For Quick Budget Fix
2010.01.15: MARYLAND: A Pair of Progressive Possibilities
2010.01.15: VERMONT & GEORGIA: This Time, Use a Wooden Stake
2010.01.15: It's Back... Missouri's Humongous Sales Tax Proposal
2010.01.15: Budget Band-Aids: Kansas and Washington
2010.01.14: Administration Proposes Fee on Risk-Taking by Largest Banks
2010.01.08: Urge Congress to Reinstate the Estate Tax
2010.01.08: Arizona & New Mexico: So Close, Yet So Far Apart
2010.01.08: States Get Serious About Transportation Funding
2010.01.08: Corporate Taxes in the News
2009.12.22: Can Louisiana Double Its Gas Tax?
2009.12.22: Hawaii: A Budgetary Shell Game, or Just Train Robbery?
2009.12.18: Major Federal Tax Issues Left to Be Resolved as 2009 Ends
2009.12.18: Does IRS Notice Allowing TARP Recipients to Save Billions in Taxes Cost Ordinary Americans?
2009.12.18: Our Prediction: Property Taxes Will be Debated (Again!) in Georgia
2009.12.18: Tax Breakthrough in Ohio
2009.12.11: President Obama's Jobs Proposals
2009.12.11: House Approves Bill to Close "Carried Interest" Loophole, Crack Down on Offshore Tax Cheats
2009.12.11: The Wages of Sin: States Are Diverting Tobacco Tax Revenue From Anti-Cessation Efforts to Budget-Balancing
2009.12.11: Pawlenty Collects Brownie Points with Anti-Taxers by Pushing Deeply Flawed Proposals
2009.12.11: Tax Fairness By Any Standard & Michigan's Generosity
2009.12.11: KENTUCKY: Out in the Open, But on the Wrong Side of the Fence
2009.12.11: Out of Control Tax Credits Demonstrate Need for Greater Oversight
2009.12.09: Study in House "Extenders" Bill Would Provide Valuable Info on Many Tax Breaks
2009.12.09: Study in House "Extenders" Bill Would Provide Valuable Info on Many Tax Breaks
2009.12.09: Louisiana: Can Property Tax be Too Low?
2009.12.08: National Organizations Support House Bill to Close "Carried Interest" Loophole, Crack Down on Offshore Tax Cheats
2009.12.04: The House Estate Tax Bill: Could Be Better, Could Be a Lot Worse
2009.12.04: Kansas and Minnesota Discuss Cleaning Up their Sales Tax Bases
2009.12.04: Rhode Island: One Bad Idea After Another
2009.12.04: Growing Momentum for Income Tax Reform Among Gubernatorial Candidates
2009.12.04: Cyber Shopping = Raw Deal for States
2009.11.30: Louisiana Tax Amnesty: A $303 Million Success?
2009.11.20: ITEP's "Who Pays?" Report Renews Focus on Tax Fairness Across the Nation
2009.11.20: Senate Health Bill Includes a Progressive Medicare Tax Expansion -- But Could Be Amended to Include a Better One
2009.11.20: After More Than a Decade of Delay, Tax Expenditure Review is Back on the Agenda
2009.11.20: ALABAMA: Tax System Still Regressive, Knight Still Trying to Make it Less So
2009.11.20: ARIZONA: Budget Woes Stretch Past July 4th, Labor Day, Halloween ... and Possibly Thanksgiving?
2009.11.18: Who Pays? New ITEP Study Finds State & Local Taxes Hit Poor & Middle Class Far Harder than the Wealthy
2009.11.13: CTJ Releases New State-by-State Figures on House Health Bill While Senate Considers Medicare Tax Proposal Championed by CTJ
2009.11.13: New CTJ Report Calls for Review of Spending Programs Buried Within the Tax Code
2009.11.13: State Spending Done Through the Tax Code Needs to Be Reviewed
2009.11.10: CTJ Submits Testimony on Proposed Tax Treaties
2009.11.02: New CTJ Report on the Unemployment Bill: Must Everything Involve Tax Cuts?
2009.10.29: Members of Congress and Others Congratulate CTJ on 30 Years
2009.10.29: Chairmen of Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees Introduce Watered-Down Legislation to Address Tax Havens
2009.10.29: Illinois: Governor and Comptroller Each Have It Partially Right on the Income Tax
2009.10.29: New Hampshire: Get the Children Out of the Room, They Might Mention an Income Tax
2009.10.29: South Dakota Committee's Transportation Plan Tackles Familiar Problem
2009.10.29: State Revenue Matters In the News
2009.10.16: CTJ's Suggested Principles for Tax Reform
2009.10.16: Pennsylvania Budget Signed 101 Days Late
2009.10.16: North Carolina Factory Closure Highlights Failure of Special Tax Subsidies
2009.10.16: Anti-Tax Initiative on Oregon Ballot this November
2009.10.16: Little-Noticed Tax Cut in Massachusetts to Shower $281 Million on Three Companies
2009.10.16: New Ohio Report Highlights ITEP Analysis
2009.10.16: Kansas Revenue Official: Tax Cuts Reduce Revenue
2009.10.09: Update on Health Care Reform
2009.10.09: Maryland: Combined Reporting Would Have Saved State as Much as $170 Million in 2006
2009.10.09: New Jersey Gubernatorial Candidate's Plan Filled with Wild, Impossible Promises
2009.10.09: Michigan Budget Update: EITC Woes and Tax Equity for Non-Elderly Taxpayers
2009.10.09: Iowa Film Tax Credit Controversy Sparks Movement Toward Greater Scrutiny of Special Tax Subsidies
2009.10.09: How Expedia Is Snatching Revenue from the State and Local Governments -- and Why the Governments Are Striking Back
2009.10.02: Measure to Crack Down on Offshore Tax Evasion Could Be Used to Help Pay for Health Care Reform
2009.10.02: Anti-Estate Tax Groups to Promote Near-Repeal Instead of Repeal
2009.10.02: The National Association of Realtors Has Taken Plenty of Regressive Positions on Taxes -- But Do They Oppose Extending the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich?
2009.10.02: Virginia Gubernatorial Race Shows Sharp Contrast in Transportation Plans
2009.10.02: "TABOR" Update: Restrictions on Revenue-Raising on November Ballots
2009.10.02: As Expected, California Tax Commission Releases Sharply Regressive Tax "Reform" Plan
2009.10.02: Good News From the Buckeye State
2009.10.02: Spending Cuts Aren't All They Are Cracked Up to Be: Dispatches from Illinois, Mississippi, and Washington
2009.09.25: New CTJ Report Reviews and Compares Six Progressive Tax Options to Finance Health Care Reform
2009.09.25: No Tax on the $845 Million Sale of the Cubs? Why We Need the Economic Substance Law
2009.09.25: Tax Cheats Get a Three-Week Reprieve
2009.09.25: State Film Tax Credits: Next on the Cutting Room Floor?
2009.09.25: Mississippi Lawmakers Urged to Take Balanced Approach to Budget Woes
2009.09.25: Ohio Supreme Court Weighs in on Two Key Revenue Issues
2009.09.18: Pennsylvania: One Is the Loneliest Number
2009.09.18: Rhode Island and Oklahoma Make Headlines for Making Recipients of Corporate Tax Breaks Accountable
2009.09.18: Gubernatorial Hopefuls Talk about Income Tax Elimination Rather Than Real Solutions
2009.09.14: Health Care Reform: Worth Paying for, and Plenty of Ways to Pay for It
2009.09.14: Arizona: A Step in the Right Direction, but a Long Journey Ahead
2009.09.14: Michigan Governor's Proposed Budget Slashes EITC and Raises Regressive Taxes to Address Budget Gap
2009.09.14: The Exaggerated Promise of Legalized Gambling
2009.09.14: Wisconsin Tax Proposals: One Step Forward, One Step Back
2009.09.14: Experts Say States' Economies Will Suffer If Budgets Are Balanced Solely by Cuts in Spending
2009.09.11: CTJ Report Confirms Obama's Statement on Costs in Health Care Address
2009.09.04: Tax Havens are Hot Topic at OECD Meeting as Fallout from UBS Case Continues
2009.09.04: National League of Cities Report: Many Cities Hiking Regressive Taxes and Fees
2009.09.04: Arizona: Fake News, Bad News, and Mildly Good News
2009.09.04: Income Tax Debate Heats Up in Illinois
2009.08.21: Swiss Bank to Give Up Some, But Not All, Americans It Helped Evade U.S. Taxes
2009.08.21: The "Clock is Ticking" on the IRS Voluntary Disclosure Program for Offshore Accounts
2009.08.21: Health Care Reform: Plenty of Town Hall Meetings Are Packed with Supporters of Reform. Make Sure the One in Your Area Is Too.
2009.08.21: Tax Amnesties that Do NOT Work: Two States Need to Reject Unfair and Counterproductive Tax Amnesties
2009.08.21: OUTRAGE IN MICHIGAN: Governor Proposes Cutting State's EITC
2009.08.21: South Dakota Gubernatorial Hopeful Pushes Enactment of Corporate Income Tax
2009.08.21: Arizona's Response to a $3 Billion Shortfall: Abolish a Tax Created to Give Everyone Equal Access to Education
2009.08.21: NM Governor: Let's Close Loopholes, But Not the Ones for the Rich
2009.08.14: The Fight of Our Generation: What You Can Do for Health Care Reform
2009.08.14: UBS Reaches Agreement with U.S. on Disclosure of American Customers
2009.08.14: Connecticut: Rell Takes a Step in the Right Direction on Taxes
2009.08.14: Oregon Enacts Legislation to Scrutinize Some Tax Subsidies, But Could Go Further
2009.08.14: Tax-Free Gun Days Starting to Catch On
2009.08.14: New CBPP Report Informs Sales Tax on Services Debate
2009.08.14: Washington and Maine Voters to Consider November Ballot Proposals that Would Slash Revenue Available for Public Services
2009.08.10: Does Anyone Still Think the Anti-Health Care Reform People Can Be Appeased with Compromises?
2009.08.10: Will the Senate Repeat the House's Mistakes on Climate Change Legislation?
2009.08.10: Rep. McDermott Introduces Bill to Stop Employee Misclassification
2009.08.10: Arizona: Budget Saga Nearing an End?
2009.08.10: Big Business Already Giving Big to Take Down Oregon Tax Increase
2009.08.10: Regressive Tax Hikes, Spending Cuts, & Combined Reporting Used to Close DC Budget Gap
2009.08.10: Happy Holidays? Reconsidering Sales Tax Holidays
2009.08.10: North Carolina's Budget Resolution
2009.08.08: Federal Home-Buyer Tax Credit Prompts Cheating
2009.08.03: Health Care Reform Debate Continues to Focus on Small Businesses
2009.08.03: Organizations Brief Capitol Hill on Offshore Tax Abuses
2009.08.03: California Budget Devastates State Services, Kicks Can Down the Road
2009.08.03: Tax Base Broadening on the Agenda in Michigan, California, and North Carolina
2009.07.21: Tax Cap on Ballot in Washington
2009.07.21: Massachusetts: Department of Revenue Report Puts Spotlight on Film Tax Credit
2009.07.21: With Progressive Options Now on the Table, California Tax Reform Commission Seeks Extension
2009.07.21: The Obstructionists Are Wrong: Telling the Rich to Pay their Fair Share Will NOT Destroy Small Businesses
2009.07.21: Illinois Budget Debate Resolved... For Now
2009.07.14: CTJ Releases State-by-State Figures on House Surcharge Proposal as Momentum Builds for Progressive Measures to Finance Health Care Reform
2009.07.14: Recent CBPP Reports Explain How House Climate Change Bill Could Be Improved in the Senate
2009.07.14: ITEP Tells Maryland Tax Reform Commission that Key Reform Would Stop Corporations from Shifting Their Profits Out of State
2009.07.14: Against Advice of Economics Experts and Intent of Congress, Some States Use Stimulus Money for Corporate Tax Breaks
2009.07.14: Did Tax Avoidance Contribute to the D.C. Metro Accident?
2009.07.14: Transportation Funding in the News
2009.07.14: States Faced with Surge of Property Tax Appeals Should Turn to "Circuit Breakers"
2009.06.19: Congress CAN Raise the Revenue It Needs to Pay for Health Care Without Impacting Families Who Are Already Struggling
2009.06.19: Rhode Island: Breaking Away from Capital Gains Tax Breaks
2009.06.19: Pennsylvania & Oregon: Substantive Steps Toward Solvency
2009.06.19: Kentucky Lawmakers Should Look Beyond Gambling
2009.06.19: South Carolina's Tax Commission Saga
2009.06.19: Utah: A Case Study in Why States Should Reject a Flat Tax
2009.06.16: Why Won't the Obama Administration Accept Taxing Employer-Paid Health Premiums?
2009.06.12: New Report from CTJ: Caviar, Cruises, and Cocaine
2009.06.12: Debate Over Health Care Reform, and How to Pay for It, Continues
2009.06.12: Microsoft Leaving the United States if Obama's Proposals Become Law?
2009.06.12: GM Gets to Keep Its Net Operating Losses Despite Massive Change in Ownership
2009.06.12: Update on Wisconsin's Budget Debate
2009.06.12: What Folks in Missouri Aren't Likely to Hear at "Fair Tax" Rally This Weekend: The Facts
2009.06.12: Schwarzenegger: A Flat Tax Proposal for California?
2009.06.12: Oregon: The Bridge to Tax Fairness
2009.06.12: North Carolina: Revenue-Raising Options on The Table
2009.06.05: Coalition of Advocates, Think Tanks and Unions Begins Campaign to Promote Progressive Revenue Options to Fund Health Care Reform and Other Initiatives
2009.06.05: Bad News for Tax Reform in Illinois
2009.06.05: New ITEP Report Focuses on the Need for Tax Reform in Kentucky
2009.06.05: North Carolina Budget Debate Remains Unresolved
2009.06.05: Iowa Decides Its Taxpayers Should Know When Their Tax Dollars Are Given Away to Big Business
2009.06.05: New Report Shows That Despite Budget Crunch, California Policymakers Most Interested in Big Corporate Giveaways
2009.05.29: Kentucky Advocates Call on Governor
2009.05.29: Maryland: Millionaires on the Move?
2009.05.29: Michigan Residents Back Progressive Income Tax; and New Evidence on Wasteful Tax Breaks for Business
2009.05.29: Nevada Legislature Overrides Governor's Veto of Much Needed Tax Increases
2009.05.29: Oregon and New Jersey: Time to Get Serious on Tax Increases
2009.05.22: Another Win in the War Against Tax Havens: Obama Administration Puts Panama Free Trade Agreement on Hold
2009.05.22: New York and Other States Must Act to Close a Corporate Loophole Created by the Economic Recovery Act
2009.05.22: California Voters Reject Spending Cap
2009.05.22: ITEP Weighs In: Illinois Tax Reform Debate
2009.05.22: State Income Taxes: The Jet Set Stays Put?
2009.05.22: Conservative Governors of Two Southern States Approve Increasing Cigarette Tax Rates
2009.05.21: New CTJ Report Proposes Progressive Revenue Options to Fund Health Care Reform
2009.05.15: New CTJ Report on President Obama's Revenue Proposals
2009.05.15: Regressive Tax Cut Vetoed in Georgia
2009.05.15: Progressive Income Tax Hikes Meet Reckless Opposition from Two Governors
2009.05.15: Washington: Newspaper Bailouts Begin
2009.05.15: "Fair Tax" Dead in Missouri But May Rear Its Head in Kentucky or South Carolina
2009.05.11: Georgia: Perdue Vetoes Capital Gains Tax Cut
2009.05.08: Two New Reports from Citizens for Tax Justice Examine Offshore Tax Abuses and the President's Proposals to Address Them
2009.05.08: Minnesota House and Senate Each Pass Bills Containing Progressive Tax Reforms
2009.05.08: Louisiana: There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch
2009.05.08: District of Columbia: More Movement Towards Progressive Deficit Reduction
2009.05.08: Try, Try, Try Again. Next Year.
2009.05.01: House and Senate Approve Final Budget Resolution
2009.05.01: Missouri House GOP Approves Massive Tax Increase on the Middle-Class, Tax Cuts for the Rich
2009.05.01: Will Georgia's Governor Approve Plan to Raise Property Taxes on the Middle-Class to Cut Capital Gains Taxes for the Rich?
2009.05.01: U.S. Continues to Turn Up the Heat on Offshore Tax Evaders
2009.05.01: Massachusetts: Proposed Revenue Fix Could Use a Fix of Its Own
2009.05.01: Polling Suggests California Voters Oppose Spending Cap
2009.04.30: Illinois EITC Expansion: "Welfare?"
2009.04.24: Will the House Energy and Commerce Committee Botch Cap and Trade?
2009.04.24: Congressman McDermott Proposes a More Progressive Approach to the Estate Tax
2009.04.24: IRS Wins a Battle in the War on Tax Havens
2009.04.24: Misery in Missouri: Regressive Income Tax Changes and Income Tax Elimination Both Pass the House of Representatives
2009.04.24: Arizona: Goose... Meet Gander
2009.04.24: Hawaii and Vermont: Two Peas in the Progressive Tax Pod?
2009.04.24: Georgia: Piling on the Pain
2009.04.24: Ohio Report Highlights Need for State EITC
2009.04.24: CBPP Report on Tax Expenditure Reporting Encourages Smarter Thinking About Special Tax Breaks
2009.04.24: CTJ and ITEP Say Good Bye to Tax Justice Champion
2009.04.15: Anti-Tax Sentiment Is Even Weaker than the Polls Suggest
2009.04.15: New Report Explores the Cost of Tax Havens
2009.04.13: Is "Tax Day" Too Burdensome for the Rich?
2009.04.13: Answers to Your Tax Day Questions
2009.04.10: New ITEP Report: Georgia Legislation Awaiting Governor's Decision Would Raise Taxes on Middle-Income Families to Pay for Capital Gains Tax Breaks for Wealthy Investors
2009.04.10: Thank Congress for Adopting a Budget that Moves Towards Obama's Reform Agenda
2009.04.10: New CTJ Fact Sheet: Do the Rich Really Pay Over a Third of Their Income in Federal Income Taxes?
2009.04.10: Report from National Women's Law Center Focuses on Tax Policies that Support Families
2009.04.10: Income Tax on High-Earners Proposed in Washington State
2009.04.10: Florida Considers Key Reform to Prevent Corporate Tax Avoidance
2009.04.07: Georgia Lawmakers Swap Income for Property Taxes
2009.04.03: Why Does Blanche Lincoln Hate the Estate Tax So?
2009.04.03: Budget Resolutions Approved by House and Senate
2009.04.03: Estate Tax: Senate Approves a Break for Millionaires that Leader Reid Calls "So Stunning, So Outrageous"
2009.04.03: Reconciliation for Health Care Reform: House Moves to Stop Senators' Obstruction of Measures with Majority Support
2009.04.03: House GOP's Alternative Budget: Poor Pay More, Rich Pay Less, Stimulus Repealed and Government Shrinks
2009.04.03: Ways & Means Select Revenues Subcommittee Looks at Tax Havens; Citizens for Tax Justice Submits Written Testimony
2009.04.03: Progress on Progressive Taxation in the States
2009.04.03: Tax Overhaul in Kentucky Could Be Progressive... Or Not
2009.04.03: All That Glitters Isn't Gold: Impact of Utah's Flat Tax Surprises Many
2009.04.02: New Report from CTJ: Update on House GOP Budget Plan
2009.03.27: New Report from CTJ: Poor Pay More and Rich Pay Less Under House GOP Plan that Costs $300 Billion More Annually than the President's Plan
2009.03.27: Wrong Tool for the Job: The House Passes 90 Percent Tax on Bonuses Paid by TARP Recipients
2009.03.27: International Developments and Congressional Action Turn Up the Heat on Tax Havens
2009.03.27: State Deductions for Federal Income Taxes: A Step Forward in Iowa, a Standstill in Alabama
2009.03.27: A Crack in the Granite? New Hampshire Moving Ahead on Progressive Tax Changes
2009.03.27: Michigan Governor Backs Graduated Rate Income Tax
2009.03.27: Two States Consider Offering Unproven Tax Breaks for Home Buyers
2009.03.20: New State-by-State Figures on Tax Proposals in President's Budget from Citizens for Tax Justice
2009.03.20: New ITEP Report: States Can Raise Needed Revenue and Improve Tax Fairness by Repealing Capital Gains Tax Breaks
2009.03.20: With Tax Regressivity Worsening, Chair of Minnesota's House Tax Committee Proposes Progressive, Simplifying Changes
2009.03.20: New Jersey Governor's Budget Includes Progressive Revenue Options
2009.03.20: Making Way for Progress in Illinois
2009.03.20: Missed Opportunities in North Carolina
2009.03.17: President Obama Should Expand Government Performance Reviews to Include Tax Expenditures
2009.03.17: Will Special Tax Breaks Be More Closely Scrutinized Under the Obama Administration?
2009.03.17: As Senate Finance Committee Meets to Consider Offshore Tax Evasion, Citizens for Tax Justice Joins Other Organizations in Support of Legislation to Crack Down on Tax Havens
2009.03.12: New Report from Citizens for Tax Justice: President Obama's First Budget Proposal
2009.03.12: The Economic Development Tax Credit Addiction
2009.03.12: ITEP Testifies in Favor of New Hampshire Income Tax Proposal
2009.03.12: Virginia Follows California on the Road to a Less Effective Corporate Tax
2009.03.12: Tanning Salons: The Next Step in Sin Taxation?
2009.03.12: Unfair Tax Debate Heats Up in Missouri
2009.03.12: Thought You'd Heard the Last of TABOR? Think Again
2009.03.03: Special Alert about President Obama's Budget Proposal
2009.02.27: President Obama's First Budget: Not Perfect, But a Massive Improvement Over the Recent Past
2009.02.27: Anti-Tax Forces in California Finally Do the Math
2009.02.27: Three States Focus on Eliminating Regressive Deduction to Raise Much Needed Revenue
2009.02.27: Making the News: Progressive Changes to Ohio, Minnesota, and Montana's Income Tax
2009.02.27: Property Tax "Reform" Voted Down in Idaho
2009.02.20: The Coming War Over the Federal Budget
2009.02.20: A Securities Transaction Tax Could Raise Revenue -- But Why Not Simply Remove the Loopholes for Investors in the Existing Income Tax?
2009.02.20: Closing State Budget Gaps with Taxes on Upper-Income Taxpayers Gains Popularity
2009.02.20: Missouri Advocates Bucking the Trend
2009.02.20: Tax Isn't a Dirty Word
2009.02.13: Congress Set to Approve Economic Stimulus Bill After Scaling Back Regressive Tax Provisions
2009.02.13: Non-Stimulative Tax Cuts: A Big One Is Kept in the Final Package, But Many Others Were Significantly Scaled Back
2009.02.13: Stimulative Tax Cuts: Included in Final Package (But Scaled Back Slightly)
2009.02.13: Even a Pinch of Tax Reform: Stimulus Package Includes Provision to Rescind the Bush Treasury's "Wells Fargo Ruling"
2009.02.13: Stimulus Bill Helps, But Does Not Cure, State Fiscal Problems; Other States Should Follow New York's Lead
2009.02.13: Billionaire Oil Man & West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy Have Their Say about Tax Incentives
2009.02.10: CTJ Ranks the Six Worst Tax Cuts in the Senate Stimulus Bill
2009.02.09: Tax Amnesty: States' Lack of Self-Control Diminishes Tax Fairness
2009.02.09: Progressive Tax Reform Gaining Steam in Missouri and Kentucky
2009.02.09: Rhode Island: What Not to Do with Federal Stimulus Funds
2009.02.09: Oklahoma: Desperate Times Call for... Completely Illogical Measures
2009.02.02: New State Fact Sheets from Citizens for Tax Justice Show that Families with Children in Most States Would Gain Around $900 to $1,000 in Tax Cuts from the Stimulus Bills
2009.02.02: New Report from CTJ: Will Congress Make Itself a Doormat for Corporations That Avoid U.S. Taxes?
2009.02.02: California: A Devastating "Compromise" in the Works?
2009.02.02: Pennsylvania: Rendell Backs Eagles, Opposes Tax Increases -- Notice a Pattern?
2009.02.02: How to Fix a State Budget Shortfall: Kentucky Youth Advocates Weighs In
2009.02.02: How Ohio's Former Governor Taft Turned the Business Tax into Swiss Cheese
2009.02.02: Food Fight: Lawmakers Must Decide Whether Food Should Be Subject to Sales Taxes
2009.01.28: New CTJ Report Compares Most Recent House GOP Stimulus Proposal to House Democratic Stimulus Bill Up for Vote Today -- Includes Updated State-by-State Estimates
2009.01.28: House Democrats' Stimulus Bill Would Rescind the "Wells Fargo Ruling"
2009.01.28: Deadline Extended for Organizations to Join Sign-On Letter to Congress Urging Expansion of Child Tax Credit for Low-Income Families
2009.01.26: New CTJ Report Compares Tax Cuts in House Stimulus Proposals -- Includes State-by-State Estimates
2009.01.26: Opening for Progressive Tax Options in New York and Illinois
2009.01.26: Budget Woes in the Bay State
2009.01.26: Minnesota: Worst Stimulus Ever?
2009.01.26: Gas Tax Increases: An Increasingly Popular Idea
2009.01.26: PLAN's Plan
2009.01.16: House Democrats' Tax Proposal Makes Some Improvements on Obama Plan While Retaining Some Ill-Advised Tax Cuts for Business
2009.01.16: Estate Tax Proposal Would Partially Extend One of Bush's Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
2009.01.16: How to Budget for a Recession: Don't Slash Taxes in the Good Times, Tap a Rainy Day Fund in the Bad Times
2009.01.16: New Report: Tax Cuts Don't Improve Ohio's Economy
2009.01.09: New CTJ Report: Preliminary Analysis of Obama's Stimulus Tax Cuts: Could Be Worse, Could Be a Lot Better
2009.01.09: New CTJ Report: Senator McConnell's Proposed "Middle-Class Stimulus" Is Neither Middle-Class Nor Stimulative
2009.01.09: The State Budget Crisis: Some (Very) Modest Revenue Raising Ideas from Kansas, Oregon, and Massachusetts
2009.01.09: California & Colorado: Why Procedural Restrictions on Revenue-Raising Lead to Disaster
2008.12.24: Evaluating the National Retail Federation's "Tax Holiday" Idea
2008.12.20: Why Virginia Won't Hike Its CIg Tax
2008.12.19: Economic Stimulus: Good Ideas and Bad Ideas
2008.12.19: Good Ideas: Government Spending to Boost Consumption by the Needy and Build Infrastructure
2008.12.19: Bad Stimulus Ideas: Untargeted Tax Cuts and Permanent Tax Cuts
2008.12.19: Corporations Get Subsidies Through the Tax Code in the Good Times, Then Ask for Bailout Funds in the Bad Times
2008.12.19: Supermajority Requirement Forces Desperate Action in California
2008.12.19: New York Governor's Budget Plan Ignores Advice of 100+ Economists, Lacks Major Progressive Reforms
2008.12.19: Washington State Governor Proposes Damaging Cuts, No Tax Increases Whatsoever; Florida Contemplating Similar Path
2008.12.19: Virginia Governor's Budget Plan Only Partly Hits the Mark
2008.12.19: Push for TABOR-style Spending Cap Dissolves in North Dakota
2008.12.19: Wisconsin Way -- Headed the Wrong Way
2008.12.19: New York's "Soda Pop" Tax Proposal
2008.12.12: CTJ Report: Auto Industry Bill Would Have Expanded the Infamous "Wells Fargo Ruling" and Provided a Bailout for Illegal Tax Planning
2008.12.12: Congress Should Not Fall for Corporate America's Latest "Repatriation" Plan
2008.12.12: Revival of Wisconsin Estate Tax Under Consideration
2008.12.12: With Blagojevich's Downfall, Will Tax and Budget Issues Be Resolved More Effectively in Illinois?
2008.12.12: New Hampshire: Tax Fundamentalism Threatens Fundamental Functions
2008.12.12: Competing Visions for Rhode Island
2008.12.12: South Carolina Governor More Concerned About Election Year 2012 Than Fiscal Year 2009?
2008.12.12: Kentucky Leaders Open to Tax Hikes and Pay Cuts (for Themselves Too)
2008.12.05: Sign-on Letter for Organizations: Congress Should Reverse the "Wells Fargo Ruling"
2008.12.05: Latest State-by-State Data Show Why Obama Should Scale Back His Proposal to Cut the Federal Estate Tax
2008.12.05: CTJ Report: Principles for Progressive Taxation During a Recession
2008.12.05: Budget Fixes Worth Embracing
2008.12.05: Proposals to Fix State Budgets in "Less Than Perfect" Ways (i.e. Cigarette taxes are in the news ... again)
2008.12.05: ... and, Some Ideas to Reject
2008.12.05: Transportation Funds: The Other State Deficit
2008.11.24: Congress Should Approve Bills Introduced in House and Senate to Shut Down Treasury's $140 Billion Give-Away to Banks
2008.11.24: Despite Budget Shortfalls, 26 States Allow Retailers to Legally Pocket Over $1 Billion in Sales Tax Revenues
2008.11.24: The Next Tax Battle
2008.11.24: It's Official: Michigan Infrastructure Needs More Tax Revenue
2008.11.18: PNC Bank: Next in Line at the Bailout Trough
2008.11.17: California: Governor Admits Problem Is Lack of Revenue, Not Excessive Spending ... (Mostly Regressive) Tax Ideas Abound
2008.11.17: The Elephant in the Room
2008.11.17: New ITEP Policy Brief Explains Why States Need Progressive Personal Income Taxes
2008.11.17: Budget Picture Hardly Rosy in the Garden State
2008.11.11: Wells Fargo Tax Giveaway (Finally) Attracting Some Notice
2008.11.07: AMERICA REJECTS TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH
2008.11.07: Progressives Defeat Regressive Tax Cuts in Three States
2008.11.07: Colorado Comes Up Short in Fight to Loosen TABOR Restrictions; Severance Tax Also Fails
2008.11.07: Numerous Other States Decide on Tax/Revenue Proposals
2008.11.07: New IRS Ruling on Bank Acquisitions Imposes Major Federal Corporate Tax Cuts -- And Will Hurt States Too
2008.10.29: The Effects of the Candidates' Tax Plans on Households at Different Income Levels: Examples
2008.10.27: New State-by-State Estimates from CTJ Show that Only 2.5 Percent of Americans Would Lose Any of Their Bush Tax Cuts Under Obama's Tax Plan
2008.10.27: Does McCain Think Reagan Was a Socialist?
2008.10.27: Report Indicates that High-Income Taxpayers Hide More Income from the IRS
2008.10.27: More Allies Join the Fight for Fairness in Massachusetts and Colorado
2008.10.27: New Jersey: Stimulus for Whom Exactly?
2008.10.27: New Hampshire Smokers Didn't Smoke Enough
2008.10.21: THE FAILURE OF SUPPLY-SIDE TAX CUTS
2008.10.21: Two New Reports Explore the Strange Allure of Supply-Side Economic Policies and the Overwhelming Evidence of Their Failure
2008.10.21: Supply-Side Ideas Influence the Presidential Race
2008.10.21: Isn't It Time to Reassess the Bush Tax Cuts for Investment Income?
2008.10.21: Supply-Side Disasters in the Making at the State Level
2008.10.20: New Reports on McCain, Obama, and Tax Cuts from Citizens for Tax Justice
2008.10.20: Surprising Assortment of Groups Come to the Aid of Progressives in the Fight Against Regressive Ballot Proposals
2008.10.20: Despite Glaring Unfairness and Widespread Popular Agreement on Flaws, Tax Foundation Praises Florida's Tax System
2008.10.20: Ballot Update 2008: Maryland Slots Not a Fix for State's Budget Problems
2008.10.20: Proposed Change in Oklahoma Sales Tax Could Reduce Hunger
2008.10.10: Tax Cuts, As We All Know, Increase Revenues??
2008.10.06: How to Win Votes for the Bailout? Increase the Deficit by another $110 Billion with New Tax Cuts
2008.10.06: Does the Government Have a Right to Put Conditions on Tax-Exempt Status?
2008.10.06: Time to Stop Subsidizing Wall Street
2008.10.06: Stimulus Checks That Aren't Stimulating
2008.10.06: Washington, Meet Washington
2008.10.06: Goodbye Old Yankee Stadium, Hello Tax Cheating?
2008.10.06: Business Taxation: Always an Issue in Michigan
2008.09.29: House of Representatives Votes Down Bailout Plan
2008.09.29: Ballot Update 2008: Arizona: A Proposal to End All Tax Increases?
2008.09.29: Ballot Update 2008: Nevada: A Toothless Proposal with Great Ideals
2008.09.29: Ballot Initiatives: An Often Crooked Process
2008.09.29: New Jersey: Progressive Income Tax Reform Doesn't Scare Off the Wealthy
2008.09.29: Michigan Business Taxes: What's a Legislator to Do?
2008.09.29: Battles Already Beginning for 2009 and 2010 Ballot Proposals
2008.09.29: Sneaky and Unethical Travel Sites...
2008.09.22: FOX NEWS AGREES WITH CITIZENS FOR TAX JUSTICE!
2008.09.22: Senate Prepares to Dig the Budget Deficit Deeper with AMT Relief, Special Interest Tax Cuts, and Few Revenue-Raising Provisions
2008.09.22: Nevada: Prop 13-Style Cap Kept Off Ballot Due to Election Law Violations
2008.09.22: Finally, a State Where Taxpayers Know Who They Are Subsidizing
2008.09.22: EITC Campaign in South Carolina
2008.09.22: ITEP Submits Comments to Minnesota Tax Reform Commission
2008.09.15: New CTJ Fact Sheet: Obama's Tax Cuts Would Go to the Middle-Class, McCainÃ¢ÂÂs Would Go to the Wealthy, and Neither Proposes to Increase Federal Revenue
2008.09.15: Senate Subcommittee Finds Evidence of Evasion of Taxes on Stock Dividends through Offshore Schemes
2008.09.15: Federal Highway Trust Fund Running on Empty
2008.09.15: California: Intransigence and a Broken Budget Process Win Out?
2008.09.15: Cigarette Taxes: Another State Seeking the Path of Least Resistance
2008.09.15: New Hampshire: Smoke More, Or We'll Hike Your Taxes!
2008.09.15: Missouri: The Bizarre Pairing of Education and Gambling
2008.09.05: McCain Campaign Continues to Mislead About Obama's Tax Proposal -- and McCain's Chief Economics Adviser Admits Their Commercials Are Wrong
2008.09.05: Encouraging News on the Mississippi Tax Commission Report
2008.09.05: ITEP Op-Ed: Property Tax Relief Made Simple
2008.09.05: Ballot Update: Florida Supreme Court Ensures Property-Sales Tax Swap Won't Make the Ballot
2008.09.05: Ballot Update: Arizona Transportation Sales Tax Hike Doesn't Make the Ballot
2008.09.05: Ballot Update: Dilemma in Minnesota Pits Fairness Against Conservation
2008.09.05: Ballot Update: Measure on the Ballot in North Dakota Despite Fraudulent Signature Collection
2008.09.05: Oklahoma: In the Future, Rethink the Past
2008.09.05: Students Boycott School to Highlight Flawed System
2008.08.22: Right Wing Announces It Opposes Tax Cuts... For the Poor and Middle-Class
2008.08.22: Budget Update: "How Many Times Can We Say No to Taxes?"
2008.08.22: California: With Both Sides Pushing Bad Ideas, Budget Talks Go Nowhere
2008.08.22: Florida: It's Even Worse Than We Thought
2008.08.22: New York: Tax Hikes Nowhere Near the Discussion -- Medicaid and Local Aid Get the Axe
2008.08.22: Virginia: Looks Like All Spending Cuts Here, Too
2008.08.22: Measure 59 Threatens Fiscal Disaster for Oregon
2008.08.22: Governor Richardson's Tax Cut
2008.08.19: Florida: The Case of the Missing Tax Break
2008.08.15: GAO Analyzes Lack of Tax Liability Among Corporations
2008.08.15: Tentative Victory in Florida: Narrow Escape from a Disaster Twenty Years in the Making?
2008.08.15: Michigan: Property Tax Relief So Complicated That Even Its Sponsors Don't Understand It
2008.08.15: A Rocky Transition to a New Transportation Finance Regime
2008.08.15: Georgia Group Promotes Sensible Options for Budget Troubles
2008.08.15: Arkansas to Consider Cigarette Tax Hike in 2009
2008.08.15: Tax Foundation State Rankings Continue to Deceive
2008.08.13: Illinois: Shortest Special Session Ever?
2008.08.12: Cutting through the Tax Rhetoric Clutter
2008.08.08: New ITEP Report: State Tax Policy a Poor Match for Economic Reality in Key States
2008.08.08: Obama Calls for Tax Rebates Funded by Windfall Profits Tax on Oil Companies
2008.08.08: Tax Bills Left Undone While Congress Vacations
2008.08.08: Florida Governor Finds Any Tax Cut Too Irresistible To Pass Up
2008.08.08: Colorado Faces Choice Between Expanding Education or Continuing to Subsidize Oil Industry
2008.08.08: Seattle's Peculiar Tax on Bags
2008.08.01: Tax Foundation Debunks Anti-Obama Tax Smear
2008.08.01: New CTJ Report: Right-Wing Spin Machine Uses Misleading Figures to Argue that the Tax Code Is More Progressive Under Bush
2008.08.01: Some States Need Special Sessions to Address Fiscal Problems
2008.08.01: Gas Taxes: Broken? Antiquated? A "Fossil"?
2008.08.01: Washington: Budget Mess, New Fact Sheets, Anti-Tax Zealot Up to No Good
2008.08.01: Goin' to Carolina in My Mind: NC's Misguided Budget Delays Much Needed Low-Income Credits
2008.08.01: Sales Tax Holidays: Free Swirlies for Everyone
2008.07.25: Housing Bill Near Enactment
2008.07.25: Gloom & Boom
2008.07.25: Pennsylvania: Local Governments Singling Out Specific Property Owners for Higher Tax Bills
2008.07.25: Advocates of the So-Called "Fair Tax" Target Utah
2008.07.25: "Back-to-School" Sales Tax Holidays
2008.07.25: Some Politicians Cutting Their Own Taxes by Not Paying Them
2008.07.24: Taxing Amazon.com Complicated by Tangled Forest of Tax Laws
2008.07.18: New Math: McCain Surrogate Claims that 23 Million Small Business Owners Are Among NationÃ¢ÂÂs Richest 1.4 Million Taxpayers!
2008.07.18: Senate Investigation of Offshore Tax Evasion Focuses on Swiss Bank UBS and Liechtenstein's LGT
2008.07.18: Latest ITEP Policy Briefs Address Minnesota's Tax Debate
2008.07.18: Note to Illinois: Direct Democracy Does Not Produce Good Fiscal Policy
2008.07.18: Survey Finds New Yorkers Prefer Property Tax "Circuit Breaker" Over Property Tax Cap
2008.07.18: Virginia: Taxes Won't Get Larger, But the Potholes Will
2008.07.18: Missouri Puts Up Another Barricade Against Property Taxes
2008.07.18: Maine Voters Must Decide Whether to Veto Health Care Funds
2008.07.16: On Social Security, McCain Redefines "Middle Class"
2008.07.16: McCain on Social Security: Everything on the Table?
2008.07.11: Regressive Tax Proposals on the Ballot This November
2008.07.11: CTJ Report: Only 1% of Taxpayers Would Be Affected by Obama's Proposal to Increase the Social Security Payroll Tax for the Rich
2008.07.11: CTJ Report: House GOP Tax and Entitlement Plan Would Raise Taxes on Four-Fifths of Americans While Slashing Taxes on the Wealthy
2008.07.11: South Carolina: Gold, Frankincense, and Handguns
2008.07.11: Buckeye State: Solutions Already Available
2008.07.11: California: What Proposition 13 Has Wrought
2008.07.11: Massachusetts: Stopping Corporate Tax Avoidance, Increasing Tobacco Reliance
2008.06.27: Senate Slowly Working Towards Passage of Housing Bill
2008.06.27: House Approves Bill to Pay for AMT Relief, Close Carried Interest Loophole
2008.06.27: With Friends Like This...: Federal Lawmakers Seek to Subvert State Corporate Taxes With BATSA Bill
2008.06.27: Transportation Funding Ideas Abound, But What Role Should the Gas Tax Play?
2008.06.27: Utah: Maybe Proposition 13 Isn't What We Need
2008.06.27: Florida: Tax Swap or Tax Flop?
2008.06.27: Arizona Seeks to Widen Its Grand Canyon of Tax Unfairness
2008.06.23: Zipcar Popularity Leads to Taxation Dilemma
2008.06.22: Nevada: Special Session Postponed (Sort Of)
2008.06.20: New Report from CTJ: House Proposal to Pay for AMT Relief by Closing Loopholes Would Make the Tax Code Fairer and Avoid Increasing the Deficit
2008.06.20: Media Matters for America Catches Numerous Attempts to Distort Obama's Tax Plan
2008.06.20: FY 2009 State Budget Carnage: Rhode Island
2008.06.20: FY 2009 State Budget Carnage: New Jersey
2008.06.20: FY 2009 State Budget Carnage: Florida
2008.06.20: Delaware Budget Negotiations: Better Than Most States, But Still a Disappointment
2008.06.20: State Transportation Woes Have Common Thread
2008.06.20: Note to Lawmakers: People Will Not Automatically Love You if You Slash Taxes at Any Cost
2008.06.20: Alabama Case Contests Discriminatory Property Tax Restrictions
2008.06.20: Virginia: Gilmore Allies Jumping Ship
2008.06.20: President Bush Supports a Tax Hike
2008.06.19: Nevada: Tax Hikes in Special Session Possible
2008.06.19: Alabama case contests discriminatory property tax restrictions
2008.06.13: OBSTRUCTIONISM IN THE SENATE: Action on Climate Change Blocked
2008.06.13: OBSTRUCTIONISM IN THE SENATE: Like President Bush, Republican Leaders Insist on Increasing the Deficit with Tax Cuts
2008.06.13: McCain Again Says Investment Tax Cuts Help Everyone, Reality Is That Most Goes to the Richest 1 Percent
2008.06.13: Connecticut Gas Taxes: Playing Politics with a Serious Crisis
2008.06.13: California: New Taxes on the Horizon?
2008.06.13: Connecticut: Playing Politics with a Legitimate Crisis
2008.06.13: Massachusetts: How's that Mandate Working?
2008.06.13: Bittersweet: North Carolina Looks to Increase Its EITC
2008.06.08: Taxes Appear Set to Play a Key Role in Addressing the Climate Crisis in 2009
2008.06.06: Louisiana: Nearly to Stelly and Back
2008.06.06: New York: Setting the Stage for a Property Tax Battle
2008.06.06: The Rich Get Richer? North Carolina Contemplates Repeal of Gift Tax
2008.06.06: Report: An Income Tax is the Obvious Choice for Texas
2008.06.01: Economic Stimulus RX: More State Spending
2008.05.30: Hill Update
2008.05.30: Pushing for Tax Cuts in Pennsylvania
2008.05.30: Working on Tax Reform in Rhode Island
2008.05.30: Combined Reporting on the Horizon in Tennessee?
2008.05.30: Selective Fiscal Responsibility in South Carolina
2008.05.29: Property Tax Relief as one Tool for Beginning to Fix the Foreclosure Crisis
2008.05.23: New Report from CTJ: Bush Administration Demands that Congress Increase the Deficit with Tax Breaks for Business
2008.05.23: House GOP Pins Comeback Hopes on Social Security Privatization, Dismantling Medicare, and Slashing Public Services
2008.05.23: Building a Better Tax Cut in Louisiana
2008.05.23: Don't Mess With Texas' Taxes
2008.05.23: Inadequate and Unfair Lottery Proposal Squanders Chance at Real Reform
2008.05.23: Numerous States Wrestle with Competing Visions of Property Tax Reform
2008.05.23: Michigan Group Offers Creative Approach for Addressing Budget Shortfalls
2008.05.19: Maine: Any Tax is a Bad Tax?
2008.05.16: New State-by-State Data Show Majority of Bush Tax Cuts for Capital Gains and Dividends Go to the Richest One Percent
2008.05.16: Proposed Surtax on Millionaires to Help Veterans Would Be a Tiny Sacrifice for the Richest 0.3 Percent
2008.05.16: House Tax-Writing Committee Passes Bill to Extend Business and Energy Tax Breaks, Improve Child Tax Credit
2008.05.16: A House-Passed Law Would Stop Former Subsidiary of Halliburton from Using Offshore Scheme to Avoid Social Security and Medicare Taxes; Now Senate Must Act
2008.05.16: D.C. Sets the Standard with Increase in its Earned Income Tax Credit
2008.05.16: South Carolina: A Cigarette Tax Increase with a Twist
2008.05.09: House of Representatives Approves Housing Bills, Bush Threatens Veto
2008.05.09: Online Video Explains Why We Must Eliminate the Tax Loopholes Used by Private Equity
2008.05.09: Big Deficit Cries Out for Big Thinking in California
2008.05.09: How States Can Avoid Losing Revenue as a Result of the Corporate Tax Cuts in the Stimulus Law
2008.05.09: Report: Virginia Needs More Money for Transportation, but also Needs to Protect Low-Income Families
2008.05.09: Minnesota Is Miles Ahead of Most States When It Comes to Property Tax Reform
2008.05.02: The Clinton-McCain Gas Tax Proposal: Get Half a Tank Free This Summer
2008.05.02: John McCain: If the Issue Is Health Care, the Answer Is... Tax Cuts!
2008.05.02: State Budget Math: Economic Downturns + Enormous Tax Cuts = Painful Spending Cuts
2008.05.02: Lawmaker Says His Deciding Vote to Abolish Income Tax Was Just Being "Cutesy"
2008.05.02: Florida: Good Thing We Don't Have to Do This Again for Twenty Years
2008.04.28: California: Smart Sales Tax Reform Isn't Dead Yet
2008.04.25: McCain's Transformation Complete: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Even if We Cannot Pay for Them
2008.04.25: Massachusetts... Long and Winding Road to Tax Reform
2008.04.25: Colorado Lawmakers Propose to Loosen the So-Called "Taxpayer Bill of Rights"
2008.04.25: Maine Seeks to Help Residents Lacking Health Insurance... Kind of
2008.04.18: President Bush Has Made Tax Day Easier for the Rich - at the Expense of Everyone Else
2008.04.18: Progressive Organizations Blast Senate's Foreclosure Prevention Act as Giveaway to Business
2008.04.18: Tax Day Bill Approved by the House Would End IRS's Use of Private Debt Collectors
2008.04.18: Charlie Gibson Repeats Misinformation at Democratic Presidential Debate
2008.04.18: Battle Over Agriculture Bill May Determine What Tax Enforcement Legislation Is Passed This Year
2008.04.18: Tax Day Highlights Regressive Tax Systems in Many States
2008.04.18: Taxation's Own Digital Divide
2008.04.18: Alabama House Takes First Step Toward Helping Low- and Middle-Income Families
2008.04.18: Less than Half of Tennessee Sales Subject to the 'Sales' Tax
2008.04.11: Senate Approves Foreclosure Bill that Mainly Helps Business; House Takes a Different Approach
2008.04.11: Report: Taxes Are a Proven Strategy for Reducing Growing Income Inequality
2008.04.11: Another Example of the Power of Service Sector Lobbyists
2008.04.11: And Some People Still Think This Is a Good Idea?
2008.04.04: The Senate's Foreclosure Prevention Act Unfairly Rewards Big Business Over Middle-Class Americans
2008.04.04: Rockefeller Institute Report: State Taxes Must Increase to Keep Up With Cost of Providing Services
2008.04.04: Idaho Tax Credit to Make Food More Affordable
2008.04.04: Attack of the 50 Foot Tax Breaks
2008.03.28: Administration Again Announces Social Security Funded Through 2041, Medicare Only Through 2019
2008.03.28: Center for American Progress Finds McCain Tax Plan a Continuation of George W. Bush/Grover Norquist Agenda
2008.03.28: Spring Thaw in New Hampshire?
2008.03.28: Minnesota Governor Misses the Memo on Property Tax Fairness
2008.03.28: Severance Taxes in The News
2008.03.25: Gas Taxes: When Is An 'Increase' Not An 'Increase'?
2008.03.21: New CTJ Report: House Budget Plan Deals with Tax Policy More Responsibly than the Senate Plan
2008.03.21: Indiana Governor Signs His Property Tax "Reforms"
2008.03.21: Florida Tax Commission Charges Ahead With Unfair and Fiscally Irresponsible Plan
2008.03.21: Gaffe by Republican Gubernatorial Candidate in Missouri on Undocumented Immigrants and Taxes
2008.03.21: Georgia Legislature: Tax Cutting Frenzy Part II
2008.03.21: New York and Maryland Consider Taxes on Wealthiest Residents
2008.03.14: Budget Debate Turns into a Tax Fight
2008.03.14: Washington Lawmakers Take a Bold Leap for Working Families
2008.03.14: Turning the Tide in the Ocean State
2008.03.14: Special Florida Tax Commission Seriously Considering Some Awful Reforms
2008.03.14: Poorly Reasoned and Poorly Targeted Property Tax Reductions are Gaining Steam
2008.03.07: House and Senate Committees Approve Budgets that Assume Bush Tax Cuts will Either Expire or Be Offset; Republicans Demand an Increase in the Federal Budget Deficit
2008.03.07: CTJ Releases Most Recent State-by-State Data on the Estate Tax
2008.03.07: Social Security Reform, KBR-Style
2008.03.07: Massachusetts: Stopping Tax Avoiders with One Hand, Rewarding Them with the Other?
2008.03.07: Progress on State Tax Breaks for Low-Income Families
2008.03.07: Victory in Georgia: The So-Called GREAT Plan Is Defeated
2008.03.07: Hopes Drowning in Florida...You Get the Government You Pay For
2008.03.07: Progressive Tax Reform Gains Ground in Alabama and Illinois
2008.03.07: Social Security Reform, KBR-Style
2008.03.05: McCain Backs Away From "No New Taxes"
2008.03.05: NYT on McCain's Tax Flops
2008.02.29: Colorado Takes Business Tax Reform in a Refreshing Direction
2008.02.29: House Passes Energy Tax Bill Again
2008.02.29: Gas Tax Changes Pick Up Speed
2008.02.29: Something New in New Hampshire?
2008.02.29: Virginia Rejects Tax Formula that Would Have Tipped the Scales to Large Companies
2008.02.29: Corporate Giveaways in Iowa
2008.02.29: Standing Up Against Refund Anticipation Loans: A Better Alternative
2008.02.28: Regressive Tax Hike Gains Overwhelming Support in Minnesota
2008.02.22: John McCain: Straight Talk on Taxes?
2008.02.22: Pete Peterson: False Messiah
2008.02.22: Plea for Reasoned Reform in Georgia
2008.02.22: Virginia: Undocumented Immigrants Pay Taxes, Too
2008.02.22: Indiana Property Tax Reform Is Coming, But In What Form?
2008.02.22: Illinois and Pennsylvania Governors Advance Proposals to 'Stimulate' Economy
2008.02.22: Bush 41 Redux: McCain Says "No New Taxes"
2008.02.15: President's Veto Threat May Obstruct Progress Across a Range of Issues
2008.02.15: President's Veto Threat: Alternative Minimum Tax
2008.02.15: President's Veto Threat: Energy
2008.02.15: President's Veto Threat: Agriculture
2008.02.15: States React to Economic Turmoil
2008.02.15: The Poor Stay Poor
2008.02.11: WSJ, Citing CTJ, Explains that Business Tax Breaks in Stimulus Bill Will Cost Over Three Times Official Estimate
2008.02.08: New CTJ Report: Bush's Proposal to Slash Human Services Reveals the True Cost of His Tax Cuts
2008.02.08: Congress Passes Stimulus Bill after Senate Republicans Block More Effective Version
2008.02.08: New CTJ Paper: Wall Street Journal Again Ignores Facts in Its Crusade for High-Income Tax Cuts
2008.02.08: Could an Argument Over a Surplus Lead to a TABOR in Pennsylvania?
2008.02.08: More Tax Cuts in Alabama?
2008.02.08: Good Idea in Mississippi
2008.02.06: Debating the Stimulus Package
2008.02.01: Senate to Vote Next Week on Stimulus Bill More Generous than the House Version
2008.02.01: CTJ Paper Finds President Bush Misleading about Tax Cuts During the State of the Union Address
2008.02.01: Report Details How Lack of Tax Enforcement (Especially for Wealthy Individuals and Large Companies) Is Costing Us
2008.02.01: Anti-Tax Lawmakers in PA Make Multiple Attempts to Gut Responsible Funding for Schools
2008.02.01: Florida Voters Approve Property Tax Cut
2008.02.01: Tax Proposals in Indiana Would Do a Lot of Harm and Some Good
2008.01.28: New Hampshire: A Granite State Income Tax?
2008.01.25: Stimulus Plan Fairly Aimed at Middle-Class But Could Be Much Better
2008.01.25: Republican Presidential Candidates Vie to Offer the Biggest Tax Cuts
2008.01.25: New Opportunity in Washington State
2008.01.25: Minnesota Businesses Say Raise Taxes to Pay for Transportation
2008.01.25: Studying Mississippi's Tax Structure
2008.01.18: Who's Rich? New CTJ Paper Analyzes Presidential Candidates' Definitions of "Rich"
2008.01.18: Congress and the White House Eyeing Stimulus Package
2008.01.18: Stimulus Must Go Towards Those Who Need It -- Or Else Congress Shouldn't Even Bother
2008.01.18: Giuliani and McCain Release Tax Plans
2008.01.18: State of the States Roundup
2008.01.18: State of the States Roundup
2008.01.18: State of the States Roundup
2008.01.18: State of the States Roundup
2008.01.18: State of the States Roundup
2008.01.18: State of the States Roundup
2008.01.18: State of the States Roundup
2008.01.18: State of the States Roundup
2008.01.11: Is It Time for Congress to Enact a Stimulus Package?
2008.01.11: Rudy Giuliani Releases Tax Plan
2008.01.04: Rebating Sales Tax on Groceries: Colorado Local Governments Give it a Try
2008.01.03: Conservative Spin Machine Fights to Define 2007
2007.12.30: Bold New "Use Tax" Frontiers
2007.12.21: Energy: Improvements Made, But Not on the Tax Front
2007.12.21: Wisconsin: Let the Sunshine In
2007.12.21: California: Once More Unto the Health Care Breach
2007.12.21: Anti-Property Tax Sentiment More Popular Than Santa Claus
2007.12.21: The Republican Presidential Primary: And In This Ring...
2007.12.21: Republican Senators Follow Bush Off a Cliff
2007.12.19: ALEC Report on "Rich States Poor States": The Longest Wall Street Journal Editorial of All Time
2007.12.15: California: Bring Back the Car Tax?
2007.12.14: Tough Questions, Tough Times in California
2007.12.14: Republican Senators Vow to Choose Offshore Tax Avoidance by Wealthy Elite Over AMT Relief for 23 Million
2007.12.14: Senators Block Bid to Make Tax Code Greener
2007.12.14: Unfortunate Sweepstakes
2007.12.13: GOP Debate: Who's Paying Too Much in Taxes?
2007.12.13: Giuliani: Let's Increase Corporate Taxes
2007.12.13: Clinton And the AMT: WSJ Half-Truths Get Even Less Truthier
2007.12.07: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
2007.12.07: Proposal to Abolish Property Taxes Scaled Back in Georgia
2007.12.07: A Word from the Wise
2007.12.07: Budget Shortfall Projected in Minnesota
2007.12.07: Michigan Resolution: Repeal and Replace
2007.12.07: Republican Senators Block Bill to Pay for AMT Relief; Force Senate to Turn to Borrowing $50 Billion
2007.12.05: Mike Huckabee's Tax Record
2007.12.04: Florida: Rubio on User Fees
2007.12.01: Florida Panel: Tax Services. Really.
2007.11.30: What the Presidential Candidates Are Saying about Taxes: Update
2007.11.20: Maryland Car Washes Live to See Another Day
2007.11.20: Maryland Tax Changes: Glass Half Full
2007.11.20: MD Assembly's Tax Plan: More Revenue, Less Fairness
2007.11.13: Election Results are In!
2007.11.13: A Progressive Plan for Property Tax Relief in Vermont
2007.11.13: Tax Fairness Wins in the House of Representatives; Battle Ahead in the Senate
2007.11.13: Tax Cuts for Sale
2007.11.07: Senate Plan Falls Hardest on Low-Income Marylanders
2007.11.06: Maryland: Pity the Poor Gym Rats
2007.11.05: Flawed Property Tax Relief in New Jersey Redo
2007.11.05: Florida: Confused Yet?
2007.11.05: Tax Reform Debate Underway in Maryland
2007.11.05: Myth Busters in Iowa
2007.11.05: Florida: Violating the "Right to Travel"
2007.11.05: Florida: Keeping an Unfair System Unfair
2007.11.05: Ways and Means Committee Approves Bill to Fix AMT for another Year and End Unfair Tax Breaks for Private Equity
2007.11.01: Tax Reform Agenda In Maryland - ITEP Testimony
2007.10.26: More Misguided Tax Cuts Aimed at Senior Property-Owners
2007.10.26: Wisconsin Lawmakers Finally Make it to the Finish Line
2007.10.26: TABOR Alert: South Carolina
2007.10.26: If It Sounds Too Good...
2007.10.26: Chair of House Tax-Writing Committee Proposes Comprehensive Tax Reform
2007.10.22: EITC Innovation
2007.10.22: Conservative [Reckless] Approaches to State Fiscal Policy
2007.10.22: DON'T DO IT! Some Senators Consider Borrowing Billions Instead of Paying for AMT Reform
2007.10.22: Plan to Abolish Georgia's Property Taxes Faces New Roadblock
2007.10.16: Congressman John Dingell Has a Good Idea
2007.10.16: Bush Realizes that Spending Must Be Paid For
2007.10.12: House Finally Gets It Right on Estate Tax, But Trouble Is Brewing in the Senate
2007.10.12: House Votes to Kill IRS's Use of Private Debt Collectors
2007.10.12: Carlyle Group, Beneficiary of Carried Interest Loophole, Embarrassed by Protest
2007.10.12: Battle Only Beginning Over the "Carried Interest" Tax Loophole for Billionaire Fund Managers
2007.10.12: Republicans Call for Replacing Alternative Minimum Tax with Alternative Maximum Tax
2007.10.05: Bush Vetoes Children's Health Care Bill, Continues to Promote His Faulty Tax Proposal
2007.10.05: Rep. Obey Proposes Progressive Surtax to Fund Iraq War
2007.10.05: Senate Finance Committee Approves Agricultural Tax Bill with a Provision to Crack Down on Tax Avoidance Schemes
2007.10.05: Senator Levin Targets Deductions for Stock Options
2007.10.05: Government Shutdown Avoided in Michigan
2007.10.05: More Details Emerge on Maryland Governor's Tax Plan
2007.10.05: Senator Levin Targets Deductions for Stock Options
2007.10.05: Ongoing Budget Problems in Illinois
2007.09.28: Just Hand Over the Shovel, Governor
2007.09.28: Senate Finance Committee Examines Tax Strategy Used by Offshore Insurers
2007.09.28: The Grain of Truth in the Treasury Report's Warning Over Social Security
2007.09.28: Democratic Presidential Candidates Address Fiscal Issues in Debates
2007.09.28: Bush Prepares to Veto Expansion in Children's Health Care
2007.09.28: Florida Court Throws Out Deceptive Ballot Language on Tax Measure
2007.09.26: Is the Sun Setting on Federal Carbon Tax Legislation? Is John Dingell to Blame?
2007.09.24: Broadening the Definition of a "Tax"
2007.09.21: Note to Congress: Taxes Are Not What's Causing Some Households to Go Without Internet
2007.09.21: Experts Agree that Corporate Tax Loopholes Should Be Closed, But What Should Be Done with the Revenue?
2007.09.21: Report on Mississippi Tax System Finds the Poor Pay More
2007.09.21: Maryland Governor Proposes to Close Fiscal Gap with Regressive Taxes -- and A Few Progressive Ones, Too
2007.09.21: Would We Want a Firefighter to Have a Part-Time Job as an Arsonist?
2007.09.21: Barack Obama Releases Tax Plan
2007.09.19: Ridiculous Quotes from Tax Cut Supporters
2007.09.18: Does the Constitution Allow Congress to Tax D.C. Residents?
2007.09.14: Colorado: Fiscal Policies in the Forefront Again
2007.09.14: Senate Bill Would Crack Down on Employers Who Misclassify Workers to Avoid Payroll Taxes
2007.09.14: Romney Tax Plan Unlikely to Help Middle-Class
2007.09.14: President's Reckless Tax and Fiscal Policies Force Congress to Raise National Debt Limit... Again
2007.09.14: Pollsters Tell GOP Tax Breaks No Longer Priority for Independents
2007.09.14: Georgia's GREAT Plan is Anything But...
2007.09.07: Can a Tax Proposal Be Described in 13 Words?
2007.09.07: Countdown to Chaos in Michigan
2007.09.07: Tax Fairness Advocates Fire Back at Lobbyists for Investment Managers
2007.09.07: Challenges of Change... You Got That Right
2007.09.07: Illinoink?
2007.09.07: Cloudy Skies in California Will Persist Despite Budget Agreement
2007.08.24: Border Conflict
2007.08.24: Fallout Continues from Minnesota Bridge Collapse
2007.08.24: Tax Reform? No. Save an Antiquated Pastime that Can't Support Itself? Yes.
2007.08.24: Film Tax Credit Corruption in the Pelican State
2007.08.24: How Not to Deal with the Property Tax Issue
2007.08.22: Maryland: Save the Poor Horse Racetracks?
2007.08.17: The Presidential Candidates on Taxes
2007.08.16: Federal Transportation Policy: At War With Itself?
2007.08.15: Why Does Chris Dodd Oppose Closing the Carried Interest Loophole?
2007.08.15: Newsday: End the Carried Interest Loophole
2007.08.14: Nevada: Putting the Lid on Ballot Initiatives?
2007.08.13: Washington Post Names Names on Carried Interest Loophole
2007.08.11: GOP Candidates on Gas Tax Hike: No Way
2007.08.09: Bush on Federal Gas Tax Hike: Not So Fast
2007.08.08: Anti-Tax Jihad Turns On Itself
2007.08.03: One Step Forward, One Step Back for State EITCs
2007.08.03: Good News and Bad News in New York
2007.08.03: Human Needs Services Endangered by Budget Standoff
2007.08.03: President Claims His Proposal Will Fix Inequity in Tax Code, Research Shows SCHIP Can Do Better
2007.08.03: Human Needs Services Endangered by Budget Standoff
2007.08.03: Human Needs Services Endangered by Budget Standoff
2007.08.02: Low Taxes Burden Virginia's Budget
2007.08.02: Who's ready for a carbon tax?
2007.07.31: Nevada Elections: For Sale, $200K Or Best Offer?
2007.07.30: Burman: End Capital Gains Tax Breaks
2007.07.29: Cannibalistic Gambling in Indiana
2007.07.27: Tax Talk-Back in North Dakota
2007.07.27: Corporate Tax Reform in New Hampshire Friendlier to In-State, Mom-and-Pop Businesses
2007.07.27: A Lower Corporate Tax Rate?
2007.07.27: Crunch Time for Congress
2007.07.27: Tax Trouble in Indiana
2007.07.27: Crunch Time for Congress
2007.07.27: Crunch Time for Congress
2007.07.27: Turmoil in the Land of Lincoln
2007.07.24: Surprise - A Bush Tax Cut Policy that Went to Pharmaceutical Companies and Didn't Help Working Americans
2007.07.20: Some Maryland Lawmakers Hope to Address Deficit with Progressive Tax Reform
2007.07.20: House Committee Votes to End Outsourcing of Tax Collection
2007.07.20: PA Budget Impasse Resolved but Long-Term Problems Remain
2007.07.20: Florida Property Tax Proposal Comes Under Fire
2007.07.19: New CTJ Fact Sheet Debunks Myths about the Private Equity Tax Loophole
2007.07.19: NYC Congestion Charge: Dead for 2007?
2007.07.16: Lessons To Be Learned from London's Congestion Charge
2007.07.13: On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! It's Initiative Time!
2007.07.13: The Definition of "Rich"
2007.07.13: No "Good Will" for Blackstone's Tax Hijinks
2007.07.13: Tax Breaks for Tax Avoiders
2007.07.13: A Step Forward in the Desert
2007.07.13: Louisiana Enacts EITC and Other Tax Changes
2007.07.13: Bush Administration Struggles to Present Deficit Numbers as Evidence that Tax Cuts Help the Economy
2007.07.13: Singing the Same Old Tune... and He's Still Tone Deaf
2007.07.13: Tobacco Tax Hikes... A Lesser Evil?
2007.07.12: Limiting State Taxes to Companies "Physically Present" in the State: Don't Be Fooled, It's Not as Reasonable as It Sounds
2007.07.10: Key Committee Chairman in House to Use Strange Maneuver to Block Carbon Tax
2007.07.10: Strike One for "Congestion Pricing" in New York City
2007.07.10: No AMT Solution This Year?
2007.07.09: Florida: Proposition 13 Redux?
2007.07.08: Live Earth: What About a Carbon Tax?
2007.07.05: Could a New Federal Law Allow You to Choose to Fund Only Peaceful Programs with Your Tax Dollars?
2007.07.05: Should War Opponents Refuse to Pay Federal Taxes?
2007.07.03: Privatized Tax Debt Collection Lives On
2007.06.29: New Jersey Budget Signed, but Long-Term Questions Remain
2007.06.29: Cuts, Cuts, and More Cuts
2007.06.29: Louisiana Legislature Sends Its Good and Bad Ideas to Governor
2007.06.29: Presidential Candidates Weigh in on Wealthy's Taxes
2007.06.29: President Opposes Expanding Health Insurance Program for Children, Supports Tax Changes that Shift Health Risks to Individuals
2007.06.29: Should Wealthy Investors Have Lower Tax Rates than the Rest of Us?
2007.06.27: Arcane Budget Rules Create Problems for Federal Tax Collection
2007.06.27: Buffett: The Rich Pay Too Little
2007.06.27: Private Collection Agencies, RIP?
2007.06.22: Corporate Tax Shenanigans Blocked in Rhode Island and Arizona
2007.06.22: Corporate Tax Shenanigans Blocked in Rhode Island and Arizona
2007.06.22: Victory for Transparency in the Sooner State!
2007.06.22: Are Corporate Lobbyists the Greatest Threat to Conservative Principles?
2007.06.22: Senate Passes Energy Bill Without Tax Provisions
2007.06.22: House Appropriators to Pull the Plug on Outsourcing Tax Collection
2007.06.22: Indiana Governor Can't Suspend Gas Tax?
2007.06.22: Can A Tobacco Tax Benefit Lower-Income Groups?
2007.06.22: Federal Tobacco Tax Hike May be Used to Partially Fund SCHIP Expansion
2007.06.18: And The Award Goes To......
2007.06.15: Energy Bill Debated in U.S. Senate
2007.06.15: Tennessee: More Taxes on Cigarettes, Less on Groceries
2007.06.15: A Thumbs Up for Combined Reporting in Massachusetts
2007.06.15: Hedge Fund Managers May Finally Face Fair Taxes
2007.06.15: Better Ideas for Illinois Tax Reform
2007.06.15: Florida Special Session on Property Tax Cuts Makes Progress... Of Sorts
2007.06.15: Earned Income Tax Credits Advance Around the Nation
2007.06.13: Taxing Illegal Immigrants for Wire Transfers
2007.06.12: Is Energy Reform Finally Coming?
2007.06.08: Opportunity for Ohio to Save Money
2007.06.08: Showdown in the Tar Heel State
2007.06.08: New Jersey's Ineffective Bribes
2007.06.08: Carbon Emissions Reduction Plans Debated
2007.06.08: Senate Investigates Stock Options
2007.06.08: Legislative Session Ends With Disappointment in Minnesota
2007.06.08: Tax Holiday for Hurricane Help?
2007.06.08: Face-Off Over Taxes in New England
2007.06.01: President Signs Emergency War Funding Bill that Includes Minimum Wage Increase and Tax Breaks for Business
2007.06.01: Some Lawmakers May Try to Use Tax System to Withhold Rights from Immigrants
2007.06.01: Washington State Has Low Average Taxes... But Also the Most Regressive Tax Structure in America
2007.06.01: Bill Comes Due in South Carolina
2007.06.01: Alabama Could Learn Some Lessons From Michigan Study
2007.06.01: Oil Companies Targeted by Tax State Proposals
2007.05.31: Oil Taxes: Higher! Lower!
2007.05.30: A "Marriage-Strengthening Tax Deduction"?
2007.05.29: How to Deal with Corporate Welfare in the Tax Code?
2007.05.25: Alabama "Wins" ThyssenKrupp Smokestack Chasing Contest
2007.05.25: GOP Presidential Hopefuls on Tax Policy: Mitt Romney
2007.05.25: Latest Tax Gimmick
2007.05.25: Using the Tax Code to Promote Postsecondary Education: We Might as Well Do It Right
2007.05.25: Term Limits + Fiscal Policy = Bad Idea
2007.05.25: Louisiana's "Middle Class" Tax Cut?
2007.05.25: Pennsylvania Proposal: Have Oil Companies Pay Fair Share, Prevent Corporate Tax Avoidance
2007.05.22: Are Cell Phones a Sin? Florida Thinks So
2007.05.22: ABC's Nightline Gives a Free Pass to Property Tax Repeal Advocate
2007.05.21: Florida: Playing the Percentages on Property Tax Reform
2007.05.21: Gas Tax Gimmicks
2007.05.18: Dust-Up in Big Sky Country
2007.05.18: Assessing Missouri's Tax Treatment of Social Security Benefits
2007.05.18: This Idea Should Have Been Retired: Poorly Targeted Tax Breaks for Social Security Benefits
2007.05.18: Congress Passes Budget that Revives PAYGO
2007.05.18: Limited Progress for One of the Most Unfair State Tax Codes
2007.05.18: Gas Tax Gimmicks
2007.05.14: Louisiana: More Tax Breaks for U2?
2007.05.14: Obama on Taxes: Lame or Lincolnesque?
2007.05.13: Louisiana Editorial Boards Urge Caution on Tax Breaks
2007.05.11: Grossly Overrated
2007.05.11: Nebraska Tax Bill a Mixed Bag
2007.05.11: Congress Continues to Prepare Assault on the Tax Gap
2007.05.11: The Federal Tax Gap: Is Max Baucus to Blame?
2007.05.11: House Democrats to Include Tax Improvements for Low-Income People in AMT Reform Bill
2007.05.08: Louisiana Survey: Fix the Roads First
2007.05.04: More Baloney on the "Clinton AMT"
2007.05.04: Energy Buzz on the Hill
2007.05.04: Tax Reform in Massachusetts: Out of Commission?
2007.05.04: IRS Avoiding Audits of Offshore Tax Cheaters
2007.05.04: Property Tax Gimmick Prevails During Last Hours of Indiana's Legislative Session
2007.05.04: Congress Considers Borrowing Money from Social Security to Extend Tax Breaks
2007.05.04: Bush Tax Cuts Reduced President's Taxes by 14 Percent, Cheney's by 21 Percent, in 2006
2007.05.03: GAO Says IRS Needs More Time to Audit Offshore Tax Cheats
2007.05.02: Nevada: Green Tax Break Has Lawmakers Seeing Red
2007.05.02: Florida: Ding Dong, the Witch is... Going on Vacation
2007.05.01: Indiana: Smile for the Camera...
2007.05.01: Indiana's Property Tax Refund
2007.05.01: Property Tax Advice for Florida Lawmakers: "Step back and Cool Off."
2007.04.27: Democratic Congressmen Propose Estate Tax Break for Farms
2007.04.27: Tax Debate in Connecticut May Produce Progressive Changes
2007.04.26: Clinton and the AMT: Evolution of a Bald-Faced Lie
2007.04.25: Grassley on AMT: Repeal, not Reform
2007.04.25: Prize for Most Ridiculous Statements on Taxes
2007.04.24: House and Senate Headed Towards Agreement on Minimum Wage Increase and "Compensation" for Business
2007.04.23: Illinois: More Editorial Opposition to Gross Receipts Tax
2007.04.23: Several Tax Proposals Considered to Pay for Children's Health -- Some Better Than Others
2007.04.20: Good Ideas and Terrible Ideas Get Equal Hearing in North Carolina
2007.04.20: Dodd Becomes the First Presidential Candidate to Endorse Tax on Emissions
2007.04.20: Food Fight: Sales Tax on Food Questioned in Tennessee and South Carolina
2007.04.20: Tax Day in Congress
2007.04.20: Report: California Still Socks the Poor
2007.04.19: The AMT Problem: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
2007.04.11: A New "Wheel Tax" in Indiana?
2007.04.06: Cease Fire in Phoenix?
2007.04.06: Corporate Tax Reform Odd Couple: West Virginia and New York
2007.04.06: Progress on Progressivity
2007.04.06: Congress Mulls Several Proposals to Protect Taxpayer Rights
2007.04.06: Tax Foundation Opposes Senator Smith's Cigarette Tax Hike - And Convinces Me I Should Like It
2007.04.06: The Nonsensical "Tax Freedom Day"
2007.04.06: Imitation is the Sincerest Form of...?
2007.04.03: Illinois: More Trouble for Blagojevich Tax Plan
2007.04.03: The "Biggest Tax Increase in History"
2007.04.03: Bush Endorses "Largest Tax Increase in American History"
2007.04.03: Indiana: A Local Property-Income Tax Swap?
2007.04.02: The Myth of the "Biggest Tax Increase in History"
2007.03.30: Arizona Business: We Support Public Services, as Long As Someone Else Pays for It
2007.03.30: Hall of Shame: Study Names States that Levy Income Taxes on Poor Families
2007.03.30: Minimum Wage, Maximum Delay
2007.03.30: House Approves Budget Resolution
2007.03.27: House Democrats' Goal: Alternative Minimum Tax Reform by Memorial Day
2007.03.27: Michigan: Ending the Pop-Up Tax?
2007.03.27: Two Very Different Approaches to Property Tax Reductions: Florida vs. Minnesota
2007.03.23: Oregon Takes One Small Step Towards Fiscal Sanity
2007.03.23: EITC Update: Victorious in New Mexico, Hopeful in Nebraska
2007.03.23: Property Tax Issues and Options
2007.03.23: Do Retirees Living in Mansions Need Tax Breaks?
2007.03.23: Senate Passes Budget
2007.03.21: Republicans Accuse Democrats of Trying to Pay the Bills!
2007.03.21: The Myth of Bush's "Progressive" Tax Cuts
2007.03.20: Can Nevada Offer Property Tax Reform lessons for Other States?
2007.03.20: IRS in E-file Embarrassment
2007.03.19: Sales Tax Base Expansion: The Future of the Sales Tax?
2007.03.16: All That Glitters Isn't Gold
2007.03.16: Mixed News in the Mountain State
2007.03.16: A Delicate Balancing Act: Sales Tax Base Expansion
2007.03.16: Can the Tax Code Keep Educated Residents from Leaving the State?
2007.03.16: Cigarette Tax Update
2007.03.16: America to Congress: "So, about that raise we were promised..."
2007.03.16: Senate Democrats' Budget Plan Would Block Tax Cuts if Not Paid For
2007.03.14: Strategies for Helping Low-Income Taxpayers - Comparing a No-Tax Floor to a State EITC
2007.03.09: Is a "No Income Tax Floor" the Best Approach to Tax Fairness? Lessons from North Carolina
2007.03.09: ITEP Testimony on Nebraska EITC Proposal
2007.03.09: The Benefits of Closing the Tax Gap
2007.03.09: Our Going-Away Present from the Republican-Controlled Congress: An Unbelievably Confusing Tax Form
2007.03.09: The Benefits of Closing the Tax Gap
2007.03.09: CTJ Tells Appropriation Subcommittee Bush's Tax Proposal Will Cost Over $5 Trillion in Second Decade
2007.03.09: Congress Begins to Consider Reform of the AMT
2007.03.08: Why I Don't Watch CNBC
2007.03.06: South Carolina: "Cockamamie Reasoning" on Cigarette Tax
2007.03.06: "Funny Money" in South Carolina Budget Proposal
2007.03.05: North Carolina: Easley Tax Plan Too Good to Be True?
2007.03.02: Should Driving Cost Less or More?
2007.03.02: Property Taxes... the Good, the Bad, and the Ironic
2007.03.02: The Economist Endorses Offshore Tax Havens
2007.03.02: States Growing Tired of Large National Businesses Avoiding State Taxes
2007.03.02: Should Cigarette Taxes Be Used to Pay for Healthcare?
2007.03.02: Latest Data From CTJ Shows Over Two Trillion Spent this Decade on Tax Cuts
2007.02.28: The Economist Endorses Offshore Tax Havens
2007.02.28: Should Cigarette Taxes Be Used to Pay for Healthcare?
2007.02.25: Florida Property Tax Repeal: Editorial Reactions
2007.02.23: The Garden State Is Not Quite Rosy
2007.02.23: An Original Idea in Milwaukee
2007.02.23: Clock Ticking for Virginia Transportation Debate
2007.02.23: White House May Be Negotiating With Itself on the Alternative Minimum Tax
2007.02.23: Tax Evasion in Congress's Crosshairs
2007.02.23: CTJ Online Letter Campaign Aims to End IRS Use of Private Collection Agencies
2007.02.23: White House May Be Negotiating With Itself on the Alternative Minimum Tax
2007.02.23: EITC Expansion: A Good Idea in Every State
2007.02.22: New Online Letter Campaign from CTJ
2007.02.19: Indiana Property Tax Repeal Effort Stalls (For the Moment)
2007.02.18: Iowa Cigarette Tax Hike: Pick a Goal
2007.02.16: Reducing Grocery Taxes: "Yes, but how?"
2007.02.16: Untargeted Tax Breaks for Seniors: An Idea that Ought to be Retired
2007.02.16: Race-to-the-Bottom: Economic Development "Incentives"
2007.02.16: How to Stop Corporations from Avoiding State Taxes
2007.02.16: Debate Continues Over "Compensation" for Business
2007.02.15: Indiana Cigarette Tax Hike Advances
2007.02.13: Lieberman's War on Terrorism Tax
2007.02.12: Georgia Budget and Policy Institute: HB 195: Senior Citizen Income Tax Cut
2007.02.09: Arkansas's Tax Cut: Could Be Worse, Could Be Better
2007.02.09: Short Term Gain, Long Term Pain
2007.02.09: Arkansas: Grocery Tax Cuts on the Move
2007.02.09: President Proposes to Reduce the Tax Gap - By One Percent
2007.02.09: President's "Balanced Budget" Plan Ignores Borrowing from Social Security and Assumes Unrealistic Spending Cuts
2007.02.08: Coming Soon: Easy Decision for Nebraska Lawmakers
2007.02.05: Maryland: Taxing Ice-- Or Not
2007.02.02: Tax Credit for Stay at Home Moms?
2007.02.02: Two More States Pursue The Most Effective Weapon Against Corporate Tax Avoidance
2007.02.02: Senators Propose Legislation to Crack Down on Offshore Tax Havens
2007.02.02: Congress May End IRS's Use of Private Debt Collectors
2007.02.02: Multi-State Focus: Senior Tax Cuts
2007.02.02: Senate Passes Minimum Wage Hike - With Tax Breaks for Business
2007.01.29: Congress May Put an End to Private Tax Collection
2007.01.29: Indiana: Making the Property Tax More Like An Income Tax?
2007.01.26: The Worst Property Tax Reform Ever
2007.01.26: Who Benefits from Tax Breaks for Business?
2007.01.23: President's State of the Union Address Includes Tax Proposal to Weaken Employer-Provided Health Care... Without Providing an Affordable Alternative
2007.01.22: Absurd Spin from OMB on Energy Tax Breaks
2007.01.19: Removing the Sales Tax on Food: Two Approaches
2007.01.19: Hot Topic: Severance Taxes
2007.01.19: Sales Taxes and School Districts
2007.01.19: House of Representatives Passes CLEAN Act, First Step in Ending Subsidies to Big Oil
2007.01.19: Senate Finance Committee Approved Business Tax Break Package to Go with Minimum Wage Hike - But at Least It's Paid For
2007.01.12: Arizona's Cigarette Tax: What's a Decimal Point or Two Between Friends?
2007.01.12: Governor Corzine Highlights Property Tax Reform in New Jersey
2007.01.11: The Politics of "Surplus"
2007.01.11: Alabama: Lessons from a Cigarette Tax Hike
2007.01.09: Arizona: What's a Decimal Point Between Friends?
2007.01.06: Florida: More Editorial Fallout on Crist Property Tax Plan
2007.01.06: Washington: Open Minds Need Not Apply
2007.01.05: Should the People Appointed to Interpret the State Constitution Be Allowed to Interpret the State Constitution?
2007.01.05: Louisiana's Property Tax Woes Continue
2007.01.03: Florida: No Hurry on Property Tax Reform?
2007.01.03: New Hampshire: Glass Half Full?
2006.12.26: Mississippi: More Tobacco Tax Talk
2006.12.25: The Lame Duck Tax Bill: Digging in The Dirt
2006.12.22: Louisiana: Adventures in Property Tax Deform
2006.12.21: Virginia Governor: Focus on Tax Fairness
2006.12.21: New Tax Proposal in Alabama
2006.12.20: Georgia Governor's Capital Gains Hijinks
2006.12.19: Democrats Target Tax Loopholes for Big Oil, CTJ Names the Biggest Loopholes
2006.12.18: AMT failure: Congress abdicates responsibility once again
2006.12.18: Virginia: Kaine Proposes Hiking Income Tax Threshold
2006.12.15: Kentucky - More Change to the State's AMC
2006.12.14: Louisiana's 2006 Special Legislative Session: Assessing Income Tax Reform Options
2006.12.14: Analysis from CTJ Shows AMT Can Be "Fixed" in a Progressive, Revenue-Neutral Way
2006.12.08: West Virginia High Court Rejects Argument to Restrict States from Taxing Income of Multi-state Companies
2006.12.08: President Brownback's Tax Agenda
2006.12.07: A small victory for ordinary taxpayers
2006.12.06: Missouri Legislation Threatens Checks and Balances
2006.12.01: Upcoming Legislative Activity in the Big Sky State
2006.12.01: Upcoming Legislative Activity in the Big Sky State
2006.12.01: Upcoming Legislative Activity in the Big Sky State
2006.12.01: DC: Another "No New Taxes" Pledge Bites the Dust?
2006.11.29: DC's Budget Deficit: That Didn't Take Long...
2006.11.29: Property Tax Caps: Better Than Nothing?
2006.11.28: Russia's Flat Tax and Economic Growth: A Little Myth-Busting
2006.11.28: Bush on Estonia's "Transparent" Flat Income Tax
2006.11.28: Should There Be Taxes In Virtual Reality?
2006.11.24: Paulson Says the "T" Word (Without Really Saying It)
2006.11.24: Sunshine and Lollipops? Or More of the Same?
2006.11.22: Why We're (Cautiously) Optimistic About the Next Congress
2006.11.17: The Property Tax Cap Craze Collides with Reality in Texas
2006.11.08: Voters Reject TABOR, Estate Tax Repeal and Regressive Education Funding Proposals; Some Regressive Property Tax Caps and Cigarette Tax Hikes Approved
2006.11.07: Privatizing Tax Collection?
2006.11.06: Let the Sunshine In!
2006.11.03: Tax Preparers and Buggy Whip Makers
2006.11.02: Battle Continues Over 501(c) Organizations' Election Activities
2006.11.02: Fiscally Irresponsible Congressmen Not Welcomed in Governors' Mansions
2006.10.27: Merry Property Tax Holiday for Wyoming Taxpayers?
2006.10.27: Merry Property Tax Holiday for Taxpayers?
2006.10.20: A Patently Absurd Tax Avoidance Strategy
2006.10.19: Colorado: House Candidate Backs Away from National Sales Tax
2006.10.18: Senate Candidates Talk Taxes
2006.10.18: Minnesota: Senate Candidates Spar on Tax Reform
2006.10.17: Michigan Businesses React to SBT Repeal
2006.10.17: Minnesota: House Candidate Tarred with National Sales Tax Brush
2006.10.16: Georgia: National Sales Tax Idea Crops Up in House Campaign
2006.10.16: The latest from CTJ...
2006.10.13: New Jersey: Bush Tax Cuts Are Focal Point in Senate Race
2006.10.12: A Bad Idea in New Mexico is a Bad Idea in South Dakota
2006.10.12: Last Call for Tax-Free Beer
2006.10.11: Bush on Pelosi
2006.10.10: South Carolina: New Tax Cuts are Bad for Business
2006.10.09: Three Studies Debunk Tax Migration Myths
2006.10.09: School Funding: A Tale of Three Taxes
2006.10.06: Flat Tax Plan Falls Flat in Ohio
2006.10.06: New Hampshire Legislators Seek to Stop Courts from Considering Education Funding
2006.10.06: Lawmakers Take Aim at Model School Funding Stream
2006.10.04: Florida Gubernatorial Candidates on Property Tax Reform
2006.09.29: Correct Diagnosis, Wrong Cure
2006.09.28: Wyoming: A Statewide Funding Solution for Community Colleges?
2006.09.26: Al Gore's Pollution Tax
2006.09.25: Sales Tax Base Expansion and Taxing of Business Inputs
2006.09.22: Gas Tax "Buffer Zones" in Kansas?
2006.09.21: Tobacco Taxes are Back on the Ballot
2006.09.21: Fair Tax Victory in Nevada
2006.09.21: Will Two Utah Income Taxes Be Twice as Good as One?
2006.09.21: Gas Tax "Buffer Zone" in Kansas?
2006.09.20: Taxing Talk from Mark Warner
2006.09.19: Utah: A Missed Opportunity for Income Tax Reform
2006.09.19: Indiana: Legalize It?
2006.09.19: Is the IRS Chilling Free Speech by Churches and Nonprofits?
2006.09.18: Election Year Gimmicks in the Buckeye State
2006.09.15: Florida: "Save Our Homes" Tax Shift Enrages Floridians
2006.09.14: Election Year Gimmicks in the Buckeye State
2006.09.14: Earmark Reform Is on a Bridge to Nowhere
2006.09.12: Sloan Bemoans "Holey" Deficit Math
2006.09.08: EITC Gains Ground
2006.09.06: Arkansas: Consistency, Hutchinson Style
2006.09.01: Another Setback for TABOR Advocates
2006.09.01: Hurricane Katrina and Local Taxes
2006.08.31: Business Turning Against TABOR
2006.08.31: Government Needs to be Paid for - Even on the Last Frontier
2006.08.31: Beware: Fake Circuit Breakers!
2006.08.30: ExxonMobil is Drowning in Taxes?
2006.08.30: California: Oil-Profits-Tax Advocates Accused of "Cyber-Squatting"
2006.08.30: Florida: Nasty Tax Talk in Gubernatorial Campaign
2006.08.30: Detroit: High Gas Prices Are Here to Stay
2006.08.30: The Paradox: Working Americans See Their Wages Fall, The Rich Get Richer and the White House Reports Increased Revenues
2006.08.29: Idaho: A Touching Display of Advisory Democracy
2006.08.28: Oregon: Challenging Out-of-State Initiative Backers
2006.08.28: Cabela's: Outdoors Store and....Museum?
2006.08.28: Cabela's: Outdoors Store and....Museum?
2006.08.28: Business Rejects TABOR
2006.08.26: Idaho Governor Pushes Through Property Tax Swap
2006.08.26: USA Today Gets it Half Right on Property Taxes
2006.08.25: Property Tax Assessment: Eye in the Sky or Head in the Sand?
2006.08.25: States Take Varying Approaches to Back-to-School Time
2006.08.22: New Thrills in Property Tax Administration
2006.08.18: Payoffs for Layoffs
2006.08.17: Direct Democracy and Tax Policy: Lessons from the States
2006.08.17: Funding Transportation Infrastructure: Issues and Options
2006.08.17: Senate Hearings Expose High-End Tax Avoidance
2006.08.17: Alaska: BP Shutdown Reveals Frailty of Tax System
2006.08.16: United Vision for Idaho: Who Pays If the Property Tax M&O Levy Is Repealed and the Sales Tax Rate Increased?
2006.08.11: Can We Impose a Windfall Profits Tax Just on BP?
2006.08.10: Cigarette Taxes in the News Again
2006.08.10: Days are Numbered for Michigan's Single Business Taxes
2006.08.10: Property Taxes: What to Do About Rising Home Values?
2006.08.10: Mississippi: How Not to Talk About Property Tax Reform
2006.08.10: The "Race to the Bottom" in Film Tax Credits
2006.08.07: Trifecta Falls Short
2006.08.04: Sales Tax Holidays: Political Smoke and Mirrors
2006.08.04: Tennessee Gubernatorial Candidate Gets It Half Right on Food Tax
2006.08.04: ITEP Speaks Out On Sales Tax Holidays
2006.08.04: Tax Cut Promises on the Campaign Trail
2006.08.02: Bill Frist's White Whale
2006.08.01: House Roll Call Vote on Estate Tax
2006.07.31: Policy by Pink Slip?
2006.07.28: More Complexity In State Tax Code... To Benefit the Wealthy
2006.07.28: Sales Tax Holidays: Boon or Boondoggle?
2006.07.26: Estate Tax Repeal: The Kitchen-Sink Strategy
2006.07.26: How High Are US Corporate Taxes?
2006.07.21: Bush Stumps Against the Estate Tax
2006.07.19: Ohio Legislators Propose Tax Breaks for Wealthy
2006.07.13: Indiana: Connecting the Dots Between Tax Cuts and Bond Ratings
2006.07.12: New Jersey: Up and Running!
2006.07.12: $100 Gift Cards for Georgia Teachers - Part II
2006.07.07: 99% of Americans Are Net Losers Under Bush Tax and Spending Policies
2006.07.07: Casinos and Competition
2006.06.29: Tax and Budget Reform in the States
2006.06.27: Gas Incentives to Use More Gas?
2006.06.23: Good Ideas and Bad Ideas for State Budget Surpluses
2006.06.23: New York: Holding Corporations Accountable
2006.06.23:
2006.06.23:
2006.06.23: Despite Massive Tax Give-Aways to Wealthy, Congressional Leaders Want Budget Reforms to Slash Spending
2006.06.23: Property Tax Reform
2006.06.22: Estate Tax Compromise?
2006.06.14: South Carolina - Compromise a Mixed Bag
2006.06.09: Estate Tax Win!
2006.06.07: Line-Item Veto Proposal Aims to Cut Back Government Services But Leave Tax Breaks for Special Interests
2006.06.05: NEW Estate Tax Information Available!
2006.05.30: Further Evidence that Undocumented Immigrants Contribute to State Economies
2006.05.29: Should Gas Prices Be Higher?
2006.05.29: Do Toll Highways Diminish Public Safety?
2006.05.27: New Mexico Fiscal Policy Project: Undocumented Immigrants in New Mexico: State Tax Contributions and Fiscal Concerns
2006.05.26: Oklahoma's Budget Brawl: How to Cut Income Taxes?
2006.05.25: EITC Denied to Working, Legal Residents?
2006.05.25: Illinois School Spending Plan: Not Reform
2006.05.24: Setback for Ohio Taxpayers - Supreme Court's Cuno Decision
2006.05.23: Tax Tidbit: Dog Controversy in Iowa
2006.05.22: Property Tax Reform in New Jersey, Texas
2006.05.22: Wild Mood Swings in Iowa
2006.05.22: TABOR in the States: Successes and Failures
2006.05.21: ITEP Op-Ed: Correcting Myths About RI's Economic Climate
2006.05.16: Evaluating This Year's Tax Cut
2006.05.15: Trendy Tax Break
2006.05.12: Senate Passes Tax Cut Bill - How Did Your Senators Vote?
2006.05.11: Another Year, Another Tax Shift
2006.05.11: Who Crossed Party Lines on the $70 Billion Tax Cut?
2006.05.10: Why We Need An Estate Tax
2006.05.08: Congressional Leadership Sees the Writing on the Wall
2006.05.08: Colorado's TABOR: If You Can't Say Anything Nice...
2006.05.08: South Dakota: Letting the Voters Decide on Tax Policy
2006.05.07: Ben Stein in NYT: "You're Rich? Terrific. Now Pay Up."
2006.05.05: Lesson from Wyoming: "Simple" is Not the Same Thing as "Easy"
2006.05.05: Hawaii: Falling Short on Low-Income Tax Reform
2006.04.26: South Carolina: Breaking New Ground on Property Tax Reform
2006.04.25: More No New Taxes
2006.04.21: It Depends on What "Tax" Is....
2006.04.20: Virginia's Governor is Missing the Point
2006.04.20: EVERYONE pays taxes...
2006.04.19: Wiggling Around No New Tax Pledges
2006.04.19: South Carolina: How Not to Inform a Tax Debate
2006.04.18: Cheney, Bush Make Out Like Bandits Under Bush Tax Cuts in 2005
2006.04.18: A Sales Tax in Oregon?
2006.04.17: Florida Property Taxes: A New Idea
2006.04.13: Minnesota Health Impact Fee Comes Back to Bite Pawlenty
2006.04.13: Repealing Tax Breaks for Spanish American War Vets
2006.04.12: Should States Sunset Tax Exemptions?
2006.04.11: Individual Income Tax Proposals Across the Nation
2006.04.11: Silly Taxes?
2006.04.09: Property Tax Breaks for Farmers: Is Use Value the Right Answer?
2006.04.09: Bad Arguments for Property Tax Repeal, Idaho Style
2006.04.08: Progressive Income Tax Cuts in Alabama
2006.04.07: Responsible Government Gets High Marks from Bond Rating Agencies
2006.04.06: Mississippi: No Tax Swap in 2006
2006.04.05: Florida's Tax Policy Shell Game
2006.04.02: North Carolina: Is a Lottery a Tax?
2006.04.02: North Carolina Hits the Jackpot?
2006.03.29: The Debate Over Replacing Gas Taxes With Mileage Taxes
2006.03.24: Unfair Tax Breaks for the Elderly
2006.03.21: Opportunity is Knocking for Mississippi Lawmakers
2006.03.21: More on Religion & Taxes ...
2006.03.20: Economic War Between the States and NBA Tickets
2006.03.19: Democracy is Alive and Well in Iowa
2006.03.19: Iowa: Gambling Advocates Look In the Mirror
2006.03.15: Collecting Something for Nothing
2006.03.09: Washington DC as a Flat Tax Laboratory...again
2006.03.07: "No New Taxes": Not That Simple
2006.03.07: Kansas: Decision Made on Taxing Green Fees
2006.03.07: Who Said It?
2006.03.04: Nebraska: Powerball Win Brings Out the Worst in Media, State Leaders
2006.03.03: Capping Assessments In Georgia
2006.03.01: Push Back Against No New Tax Pledge
2006.02.28: Delaware: A Property Tax Reform Everyone Can Agree On
2006.02.28: How Property Taxes (Don't) Work: Indiana's $400 Million House
2006.02.28: Gas Tax: Equity & Adequacy
2006.02.24: Working It Out
2006.02.21: Why Tax Caps Make No Sense
2006.02.21: Kansas: Investing in The Future and Paying More to Golf?
2006.02.21: She's Got It ...
2006.02.09: Outreach 101: Talking Up Low-Income Tax Credits in Maryland
2006.02.07: Disappointment...
2006.02.06: Asking the Hard Questions
2006.02.03: Look Before You Leap
2006.01.31: Politically Popular, But Misguided
2006.01.29: QPAI: A No-Brainer for the States
2006.01.26: Hawaii: Lingle Strikes a Healthy Balance
2006.01.26: The Rich REALLY Are Getting Richer....
2006.01.25: Job Creation What?
2006.01.25: Tobacco, The MSA, and State Finance
2006.01.25: Taxes, The Budget, and Congressional Elections
2006.01.25: Pataki: Watch Where You're Aiming Those Tax Cuts
2006.01.24: South Dakota's Deep Tax Freeze
2006.01.24: Faith In Taxes
2006.01.21: Georgia: Illegal Immigrants Pay Taxes Too
2006.01.20: Pataki's Tax Cut Spending Spree
2006.01.20: Arizona: Napolitano Puts the Brakes on Tax Cuts
2006.01.19: Georgia School Superintendents Association Critiques Governor's Budget
2006.01.18: Illinois: More Bold Tax Proposals from Blagojevich
2006.01.17: $100 Gift Cards for Georgia Teachers
2006.01.16: South Carolina: The State Makes Sense
2006.01.14: Iowa: More Details on Vilsack Budget Proposals
2006.01.12: Indiana: Daniels Proposes Tax Hikes, Reforms
2006.01.12: Iowa: Vilsack's 2006 "Tax Reform" Agenda
2006.01.11: The GAO Speaks Truth to Power
2006.01.11: Criminalizing the Earned Income Tax Credit
2006.01.09: A Measure of Justice for Kansas' Students?
2006.01.08: Reviving Philadelphia Through Tax Abatements?
2006.01.06: Gambling With Sales Taxes
2006.01.06: From the Silk Purse Department: the "AMT Assistant"
2006.01.05: Federal Regulators Do the FASBury Flop
2005.12.23: Windfall Profits Tax Part 1: Oil Executives Evade Oath-taking
2005.12.17: New CBO Report on Long-term Deficits: Sobering News
2005.12.14: Tax Cuts for Companies in Michigan
2005.12.07: Here's Hoping Virginia's Governor-Elect Will Change His Tune
2005.12.07: PA Gov Vows To Veto Bad Tax Bill
2005.12.02: Prop. 13 Light
2005.11.30: Sam Brownback wants to use DC as his "laboratory."
2005.11.28: Exemptions Based Only on Age...There is A Better Way...
2005.11.23: Ben Bernanke on PAYGO
2005.11.22: Senate Seeks to Expand Charitable Giving Deduction
2005.11.20: Candor in Utah: Debating the Food Tax
2005.11.18: Federal Budget Wars: Will Bush Say the "V word?"
2005.11.16: Note to Howard Dean: Better Work on That Platform
2005.11.09: Politics in the Pulpit: The IRS Cracks Down
2005.11.08: Cigarette Tax Avoidance in California
2005.11.05: Mortgage Deduction Reform: Regionally Biased?
2005.11.05: Reich on the Mortgage Deduction
2005.11.05: Indiana Locals Fail Tax Administration 101
2005.11.05: Indiana: The "Tax Shift" Game Catches up with Daniels
2005.11.04: Arkansas: Hutchinson's Tax Tall Tale
2005.11.03: Utah Lawmaker: Ax the Food Tax
2005.11.02: Virginia Candidates to Estate Tax: Drop Dead
2005.11.02: Rethinking Gambling Revenues in Illinois?
2005.11.01: In Florida, Everyone's a Farmer
2005.11.01: Senate to Census Bureau: Survey This!
2005.10.24: The Tax Reform Commission is in Good Hands
2005.10.20: Why I'll Never Run for Local Elected Office in Illinois
2005.10.18: Kentucky Smokers Can't Take the Heat
2005.10.18: No-Tax Pledge Bites the Dust in Utah
2005.10.14: Qualms Over Oklahoma's Lottery?
2005.10.12: Alabama Sales Taxes Hitting 10 Percent
2005.10.12: TABOR in Kansas
2005.10.12: Tierney calls for a special kind of gas tax hike...
2005.08.25: Revenue Goes Up In Smoke
2005.08.23: Cigarette Taxes as a Revenue Stream
2005.08.17: Gas Prices, The Energy Bill and the Credit Card Nation
2005.08.16: Non-Recurring Revenue
2005.08.12: Long Term Financing! No Down Payment on Your Government Until The Year 20__!
2005.08.09: Energy Bill Final Votes
2005.08.08: Albatross!
2005.08.08: Estate Tax Demise
2005.08.08: Following Through in Louisiana
2005.08.05: The Chicago Tribune on Illinois Tax Reform
2005.08.05: South Carolina: Mark Sanford Asks the Hard Questions
2005.08.04: Letting the IRS Do Their Job
2005.08.04: California's LWOM Act
2005.08.02: More on the Energy Bill
2005.07.28: Is the oil business not profitable?
2005.07.28: Banning Happy Hour?
2005.07.25: Pro-Adequacy, Pro-Jobs
2005.07.25: NC Building Breaks
2005.07.21: If only it were true
2005.07.20: Facts? Why Bother?
2005.07.19: Unclaimed Property Tax Relief in Arkansas
2005.07.18: School Funding in Texas
2005.07.18: Mississippi Burning
2005.07.18: Utah Corporate Tax Poll
2005.07.15: Schwarzenegger's $8 Million Conflict of Interest
2005.07.13: Black is white. Night is day.
2005.07.12: The American Cancer Society vs. the State of Minnesota
2005.07.12: A Budget Agreement in Minnesota
2005.07.11: Estate Tax
2005.07.11: Several Companies fess up to tax evasion in exchange for reduced rates
2005.07.11: Hillary Clinton takes on the Bush tax cuts
2005.07.08: Blagonomics
2005.07.08: Arkansas: Good Words from Governor Huckabee
2005.07.06: A Cautionary Tale from Maryland
2005.07.06: More on the Kelo decision
2005.07.05: An Empty Pledge
2005.07.05: Taxation and Takings: Lessons from the Kelo Case
2005.06.30: Mario Cuomo
2005.06.29: House votes itself "not a pay raise" of $3,100 a year
2005.06.27: In case you spent the weekend doing something besides reading OpEds
2005.06.23: Private Accounts+Blowing Up The Deficit (even more) =
2005.06.23: When Will Steve King (R-Iowa) Apologize?
2005.06.23: Sirota on the Estate Tax
2005.06.23: California Poll Track
2005.06.22: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, and gets shaken down. Or, loop-hole incorporated.
2005.06.20: Kansas School Funding: Round #3 (okay, really this is just the pre-game)
2005.06.20: Jim DeMint's Really Bad Idea
2005.06.20: Kinsley on Energy Taxes
2005.06.16: Kansas School Funding: Round #2
2005.06.16: Deadline Extension
2005.06.15: Responsibility Reigns in VA
2005.06.15: Jodi Rell To Kids: Sit Still and Drink Coke!
2005.06.14: Taxing Internet Sales
2005.06.13: Taxing Services
2005.06.09: History Lesson
2005.06.09: Taxes & Migration
2005.06.09: Property Tax Boiling Point
2005.06.07: Kansas School Funding: Round #1
2005.06.06: Legislative Update
2005.06.06: Tax Cuts and Tuition Hikes
2005.06.06: Hitting Back
2005.06.03: Cox: Another Look
2005.06.03: Chris Cox Dossier
2005.06.03: Bush Budget Cuts Out 9/11 Rescue Workers' Comp
2005.06.01: Not Taking The Gamble In PA
2005.05.31: 68 Taxpayer Assistance Centers to close
2005.05.31: The Other Shoe Drops
2005.05.26: Thinking Cyclically in Utah
2005.05.26: Criticism of Pawlenty's (lack of) Leadership
2005.05.25: WI Committee Rejects Internet Sales Tax
2005.05.25: New Hampshire Poll
2005.05.25: International Edwards: The Two Englands?
2005.05.24: Open Letter to Senator Grassley
2005.05.24: Tim Pawlenty (R - Minnesota) vs. Grover Norquist (R - K Street)
2005.05.24: On Filibusters, Super Majorities, Judges and Taxes
2005.05.23: Feeling Minnesota
2005.05.20: Archbishop Harry Flynn Makes His Stand
2005.05.18: Oklahoma Op-Ed
2005.05.18: Postcard from Reality
2005.05.11: Tax the Big Mac?
2005.05.11: Another Take on the New Zealand Carbon Tax
2005.05.11: From the Where do all of our tax dollars go anyway? Department
2005.05.11: Jerry Kilgore: What me govern?
2005.05.06: If I Were Bitter...
2005.05.05: Talk is Cheap
2005.05.05: Selling Out The Future
2005.05.04: Lowry on Progressive Indexing
2005.05.03: What makes a Republican vote against the budget?
2005.05.03: Bush is back on the stump for Social Security...
2005.05.03: Criticism of the Bush Plan
2005.05.02: Shifting Costs, Attacking Poor Families and Single Parents
2005.05.02: FY 06 Budget Whip Count
2005.04.29: Quick Budget Thoughts/Predictions
2005.04.22: News Flash: Reckless Tax Cuts May Lead To Deficits
2005.04.20: Entitlement Programs
2005.04.20: Bush Claims Status as an Urban Cowboy
2005.04.15: Bush, Cheney Give Themselves Bonuses
2005.04.15: Tax Freedom Day?
2005.04.15: Fresh for Tax-Filing Day...
2005.04.15: Keep on Blogging in the Free State
2005.04.15: End the Work Penalty!
2005.04.14: Achievng Adequacy: Tax Options for New York in the Wake of the CFE Case
2005.04.14: House Whistles Past National Debt
2005.04.12: NH Update: Deep Breath on Premiums
2005.04.12: Class Warfare, By Any Other Name
2005.04.12: Spineless in Washington
2005.04.08: In Nevada, Something Is Better Than Nothing
2005.04.08: Who Pays for Gas Tax Relief in California?
2005.03.29: Potential for a Big Mistake: New Hampshire, Medicaid and Fiscal Honesty
2005.03.24: Bunning Amendment: Saving Social Security One Golf Resort at a Time
2005.03.23: Tax Reform in DC: Baby Steps
2005.03.22: Extreme Relief in Nevada
2005.03.16: Messing With Texas
2005.03.16: Doyle Vetoes Wisconsin Property Tax Caps
2005.03.14: New Jersey: Fred Burke
2005.03.14: ITEP Testimony on D.C. Tax Reform Legislation
2005.03.09: No Supermajority in North Dakota
2005.03.08: Corporate Tax Reform in Maryland
2005.03.08: Cigarette Taxes. Again.
2005.02.27: Permanent Estate Tax Repeal: Old Plan, New Names
2005.02.26: North Carolina: Easley Proposal Soaks Poor
2005.02.25: Slots in Maryland
2005.02.23: Gambling Issue Splits Maryland Dems
2005.02.21: Sin Taxes in Connecticut
2005.02.10: Progressive Tax Cuts in Hawaii?
2005.02.07: Making Iowa a better place to live?
2005.02.04: Welcome to "Talking Taxes"

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