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Halloween Candy for Tax Nerds: 2018's State Ballot Initiatives

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...

October 25, 2018Richard C. Auxier

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Bill Nordhaus, The Nobel Prize, And Carbon Taxes

Bill Nordhaus, Climate Change, And Carbon Taxes Two events this week raised the profile of carbon taxes. The first was a report by the UN...

October 10, 2018Howard Gleckman

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Distributional Effects of a Carbon Tax Depend on How the Revenue is Spent

Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy just released a series of papers on how a carbon tax would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, affect economic...

July 19, 2018Eric Toder

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Governors Talk Taxes in Their State of the State Addresses

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...

February 16, 2018Richard C. Auxier

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Did The GOP Just Open The Door To A Carbon Tax In 2025?

Supporters of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act like to describe it as a once-in-a-generation tax overhaul. It is arguably true that it is the...

December 20, 2017Howard Gleckman

Business Taxes: TaxVox

The White House’s (Very Brief) Flirtation with a Market-Based Solution to Climate Change

For a brief shining moment the other day, it looked as if the Trump Administration was considering a carbon tax. Combined with its aggressive effort...

April 7, 2017Howard Gleckman

Business Taxes: TaxVox

What Should Government Do With Carbon Tax Revenues?

The other day, a high-powered group of former senior Republican policy advisers and business executives proposed replacing regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gases with a...

February 14, 2017Howard Gleckman

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Bye Bye Tax Reform, Hello Tax Relief

On Sunday, top presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway made an important rhetorical pivot: The Trump Administration may no longer be pushing for tax cuts or even...

January 24, 2017Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

The 2016 Tax Vox Lump of Coal Award for the Year's Worst Tax Ideas

Donald Trump is not only President-elect, but he is also the hands-down winner of Tax Vox’s Lump of Coal Award for the worst tax policy...

December 20, 2016Howard Gleckman

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

Why an unusual coalition defeated Washington state’s carbon tax initiative

Last Tuesday, Washington State voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have created the first carbon tax in the United States.

November 14, 2016Megan Randall