state income tax

Ohio 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...

June 15, 2023Richard C. Auxier David Weiner

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TaxVox’s Lump of Coal Award For The Worst Tax Policy Ideas of 2020

It goes without saying that 2020 was an awful year. Bad tax policy didn't make it much better.

December 22, 2020Howard Gleckman

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"The Long and Winding Road... Will Never Disappear..."

The Senate’s six-year highway bill inches forward, after dropping a Social Security provision. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won 14 Democrats’ votes for the bill after he agreed to drop a $2.3 billion offset. The money would have come from barring people with felony warrants from getting Social

July 24, 2015Renu Zaretsky

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

GOP Governors Flirt with Tax Hikes but Still Wedded to Income Tax Cuts

The New York Times recently reported Republican governors across the country were "bucking the party line" on taxes, citing eight GOP executives proposing tax hikes. Bloomberg also noted the trend of Republican governors and "much-regretted" tax increases earlier this week. However, the Wall Street

February 25, 2015Richard C. Auxier

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Revenues, ‘Rithmetic, and the Power of Magical Thinking

What’s a nation to do with as-yet-untaxed US multinational corporate income? The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analyzes what a repatriation tax holiday might mean for the US economy. In short: it wouldn’t help. The Business Roundtable , a group of corporate chief executives, doesn’t want

June 20, 2014Renu Zaretsky

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Corporations, Local Revenues, Tough Love, and Carbon

The House Ways and Means Committee marks up a bill restoring more expired tax breaks tomorrow. On the table: a measure making bonus depreciation for business investment permanent and reforming the tax treatment of some charitable giving. Bloomberg reports that the tax panel will consider whether to

May 28, 2014Renu Zaretsky

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Utah Lets Same-Sex Couples File Joint Tax Returns

The Utah State Tax Commission yesterday reversed Governor Gary Herbert (R), ruling that same-sex couples may file their 2013 state tax returns as married, as...

January 17, 2014Roberton C. Williams

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Tax Complications for Same-Sex Couples in Utah (and Elsewhere)

The battle over same-sex marriage in Utah not only raises important questions about marriage law; it also further complicates income tax filing for gay couples...

January 15, 2014Roberton C. Williams