Frank Sammartino

Note to Federal Tax Reformers: Don’t Forget the States

While most presidential candidates are proposing big, bold changes to the federal tax code, they seem to be paying little attention to what those revisions would mean for state and local governments. And those implications could be substantial. That, at least, was the consensus at today’s panel

March 31, 2016Howard Gleckman

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

Most State Budgets Are Improving But Their Long-Term Prospects Remain Uncertain

If you are not an energy dependent state, things ought to be pretty good, at least in the short-term. The economy is improving, though slowly, The Rockefeller Institute reported this morning that state tax revenues grew by 5.8 percent in the first quarter of this year and by 7.6 percent in the

September 17, 2015Howard Gleckman