Our Tax Policy Center (TPC) colleague Bill Gale – no slouch when it comes to diagnosing federal budget ills and suggesting remedies – says he...

Federal lawmakers ranging from Sherrod Brown to Paul Ryan have proposed expanding the earned income tax credit (EITC) for childless workers for years without enacting...

I don’t have an official over-under for the number of states that will legalize sports gambling in 2019, but I know it’s high. Since the...

A key provision of 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was the elimination of the personal exemption. The change has a major effect on...

The earned income tax credit (EITC) is a highly effective policy for fighting poverty that has garnered widespread praise from both Democrats and Republicans. In...

Some low- and middle-income families in Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico, and North Dakota are facing state income tax hikes. And the larger the family, generally...

Election Day 2018 has a bumper crop of voter initiatives on state taxes, ranging from new levies on carbon, payroll, motor fuels, marijuana, soda, and...

This year residents of the District of Columbia are getting the last tranche of a phased-in tax cut that was enacted in 2014. But because...

Forty years ago, California voters were sent a 63-page pamphlet explaining the 13 questions on the primary ballot that June. At the end of the...

Seattle is currently having a contentious debate over a proposed "head tax" to fund more affordable housing and services for its large and growing homeless...

When Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in December, it forced states to confront major tax policy issues of their own ,...

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signed a $100 million tax cut last Monday. The bill would reduce Idaho’s individual and corporate income tax rates and lower...

Philadelphia’s tax on drinks with a sugar-based sweetener or artificial sugar substitute is not bringing in as much revenue as originally projected. As a result,...

It’s difficult to predict where states will end up on tax policy this year given last year’s budget drama and this year’s new federal tax...

On Wednesday morning, a panel of experts gathered at the Tax Policy Center to discuss what the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) means for...

On Election Day, 54 percent of Pennsylvania voters backed a convoluted ballot initiative aimed at ending homeowner’s property taxes. Sounds great, right? Well, unfortunately for...

The tax bill that House Ways and Means Chairman Brady rolled out on Thursday will generate lots of partisan and ideological fights over the next...

Taxes are front and center in the only two gubernatorial races this year. The Virginia campaign centers on the Republican candidate’s individual income tax cut...

The NFL season kicks off this week with all 32 teams in action, but the focus for many fans will be on the fantasy teams...

A Midwestern state passing a budget is not typically front-page news in the New York Times . Then again, most states don't go 736 days...

President Trump’s proposed 2018 budget would result in deep cuts to federal payments to states. Federal funds currently account for nearly a third of state...

The Trump administration is focusing on infrastructure this week. In a series of events, the president and his staff will promote their $1 trillion investment...

Oklahoma is running a nearly $1 billion budget deficit. The District of Columbia (DC) is enjoying a surplus. Yet both might kill scheduled tax cuts...

If the Trump administration ends legal marijuana sales in America, an idea Attorney General Jeff Sessions supports , states collectively could lose billions of dollars...

Still recovering from the Great Recession and grappling with troubling fiscal trends , state budgets are already causing headaches for governors and legislators across the...