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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
2010.08.06: 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
2010.07.30: 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
2010.01.29: 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
2009.12.18: 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
2009.12.08: 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
2009.11.20: 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
2009.08.03: 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
2009.06.12: 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
2009.05.08: 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
2009.04.24: 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
2009.04.03: 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: 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
2008.12.19: 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
2008.12.12: 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
2008.11.17: 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
2008.11.07: 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
2008.10.06: 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, McCainÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs 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
2008.08.15: 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
2008.08.08: 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: 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
2008.07.18: New Math: McCain Surrogate Claims that 23 Million Small Business Owners Are Among NationÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs 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
2008.07.11: 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
2008.06.20: 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
2008.06.13: 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: 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
2008.05.30: 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
2008.05.23: 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
2008.05.16: 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
2008.04.25: 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
2008.03.21: 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
2008.02.29: 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
2008.02.22: 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
2008.02.15: 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
2008.02.01: 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
2008.01.25: 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
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
2007.12.14: 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
2007.12.07: 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
2007.11.30: What the Presidential Candidates Are Saying about Taxes: Update
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
2007.11.05: 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: 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
2007.10.12: 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
2007.09.21: 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
2007.09.14: 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
2007.08.17: The Presidential Candidates on Taxes
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
2007.07.27: 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
2007.07.20: 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
2007.07.13: On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! It's Initiative Time!
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?
2007.06.29: 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: 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?
2007.06.22: 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: 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: Federal Tobacco Tax Hike May be Used to Partially Fund SCHIP Expansion
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
2007.06.08: 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
2007.05.25: 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: Pennsylvania Proposal: Have Oil Companies Pay Fair Share, Prevent Corporate Tax Avoidance
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
2007.05.11: 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: House Democrats to Include Tax Improvements for Low-Income People in AMT Reform Bill
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
2007.04.27: Democratic Congressmen Propose Estate Tax Break for Farms
2007.04.27: Tax Debate in Connecticut May Produce Progressive Changes
2007.04.24: House and Senate Headed Towards Agreement on Minimum Wage Increase and "Compensation" for Business
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
2007.04.06: 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: The Nonsensical "Tax Freedom Day"
2007.04.06: Imitation is the Sincerest Form of...?
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: 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: Do Retirees Living in Mansions Need Tax Breaks?
2007.03.23: Senate Passes Budget
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
2007.03.02: 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
2007.02.23: 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: 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
2007.02.16: 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
2007.02.12: 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: 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
2007.02.02: 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
2007.01.26: 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
2007.01.19: 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
2007.01.05: Should the People Appointed to Interpret the State Constitution Be Allowed to Interpret the State Constitution?
2006.12.21: Virginia Governor: Focus on Tax Fairness
2006.12.21: New Tax Proposal in Alabama
2006.12.19: Democrats Target Tax Loopholes for Big Oil, CTJ Names the Biggest Loopholes
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
2006.12.01: 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?
2006.11.17: 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
2006.10.27: Merry Property Tax Holiday for Wyoming Taxpayers?
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
2006.10.06: 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
2006.09.28: Wyoming: A Statewide Funding Solution for Community Colleges?
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?
2006.09.14: Election Year Gimmicks in the Buckeye State
2006.08.31: Business Turning Against TABOR
2006.08.31: Government Needs to be Paid for - Even on the Last Frontier
2006.08.25: Property Tax Assessment: Eye in the Sky or Head in the Sand?
2006.08.18: Payoffs for Layoffs
2006.08.16: United Vision for Idaho: Who Pays If the Property Tax M&O Levy Is Repealed and the Sales Tax Rate Increased?
2006.08.10: Property Taxes: What to Do About Rising Home Values?
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
2006.07.28: More Complexity In State Tax Code... To Benefit the Wealthy
2006.07.28: Sales Tax Holidays: Boon or Boondoggle?
2006.07.07: Casinos and Competition
2006.06.29: Tax and Budget Reform in the States
2006.06.23: Good Ideas and Bad Ideas for State Budget Surpluses
2006.06.23: New York: Holding Corporations Accountable
2006.06.23: Property Tax Reform
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?
2006.05.22: Property Tax Reform in New Jersey, Texas
2006.05.22: TABOR in the States: Successes and Failures
2006.05.21: ITEP Op-Ed: Correcting Myths About RI's Economic Climate
2006.05.05: Lesson from Wyoming: "Simple" is Not the Same Thing as "Easy"
2006.05.05: Hawaii: Falling Short on Low-Income Tax Reform
2006.04.21: It Depends on What "Tax" Is....
2005.04.14: Achievng Adequacy: Tax Options for New York in the Wake of the CFE Case
2005.03.14: ITEP Testimony on D.C. Tax Reform Legislation

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