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State and Local Issues

State Revenue Forecasts Look Bleak as Revenue Boom Subsides

March 14, 2023 –
States saw robust tax revenue growth in fiscal years 2021 and 2022, largely caused by federal and state policy actions. But forecasts now look much...
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State and Local Issues

Viewing ARPA Aid for States and Localities Through a Great Recession Lens

March 14, 2023 –
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...
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves gives his State of the State address
State and Local Issues

Three State Tax Cut Lessons for 2023

February 2, 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...
State and Local Issues

Dogs, Taxes, And Choices

January 4, 2023 –
Should dogs be licensed and taxed?
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State and Local Issues

Lessons From the 2022 State Ballot Measures

November 10, 2022 –
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...
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State and Local Issues

A Marshmallow By Any Other Name Is Just As Sweet, But Maybe Not Taxable

November 2, 2022 –
Is a marshmallow tax-exempt food, or is it taxable candy? This question keeps national and state governments and their lawyers quite busy.
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State and Local Issues

Cannabis Taxes on the Ballot: Voters Approve, Legislatures Change

October 24, 2022 –
Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota will vote on legalizing recreational marijuana this November. And cannabis initiatives are already on the 2023 or...
Individual Taxes

What Can We Learn from Boston’s Expanded CTC Outreach to Immigrant Communities?

October 7, 2022 –
Although last year’s temporary expansion of the child tax credit (CTC) dramatically reduced child poverty across the US, government outreach efforts struggled to connect immigrant families with their tax benefits.
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State and Local Issues

Voters In Three States Will Confront The Consequences Of Earmarking Tax Dollars

October 5, 2022 –
Earmarking tax dollars comes with a price, giving today’s voters the power to decide how tomorrow’s state tax dollars will be spent. Is that power worth it?
California Governor Gavin Newsom giving a speech
Individual Taxes

Congress Failed To Raise Taxes On Millionaires. Now States Are Trying.

October 3, 2022 –
President Biden’s plan to raise taxes on very high-income households died in Congress. But the idea of lives on. Initiatives on November ballots in California...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

  • Tax Professor Daniel Hemel
Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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