Lessons From the 2022 State Ballot Measures
Americans voted on dozens of ballot initiatives this year, including tax hikes, tax cuts, cannabis taxes, sports betting, and even the future of ballot measures...
View ArticleThree State Tax Cut Lessons for 2023
The past two years were a great time to make state tax policy. Booming revenue collections combined with hundreds of billions of dollars from Congress...
View ArticleViewing ARPA Aid for States and Localities Through a Great Recession Lens
As the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) celebrated its two-year anniversary on March 11, some applauded a law that sped an economic recovery while others...
View ArticleNew Jersey Property Tax Cut May Not Work As Intended
A major property tax cut proposal for seniors has New Jersey’s legislative leaders at odds with the governor as the state tries to wrap up...
View ArticleOhio Can Help More Families With Different Income Tax Cuts
Ohio’s House and Senate are debating the details of a tax cut, but both houses support plans to cut individual income tax rates and reduce...
View ArticleReviewing Three Years of State Tax Cuts
From the start of calendar year 2021 to today, 48 states and the District of Columbia have cut taxes. The only holdouts are Alaska and...
View ArticleState Policymakers Should Understand the Odds Before Subsidizing 'Free...
At the beginning of “Rounders,” a movie about poker, the lead character describes an important rule of gambling: “If you can’t spot the sucker in...
View Article2023 State Elections Feature Key Tax Questions
While most of the political world looks ahead to 2024, voters are making important choices on property taxes, wealth taxes, cannabis taxes, and more this...
View ArticleAs Congress Debates a More Generous Child Tax Credit, 11 States Already...
A bipartisan tax plan that overwhelmingly passed in the House is now stuck in the Senate in part because of proposed changes to the child...
View ArticleThree Lessons for Policymakers Designing a State Child Tax Credit
In 2021, the American Rescue Plan (ARP) temporarily but significantly expanded the federal child tax credit (CTC), and child poverty fell from 9.7 percent to...
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