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State and Local Issues

Don’t Look Now, But States Already Are Requiring Online Sellers To Collect Sales Taxes

September 4, 2018 –
Note to Congress: About that Internet sales tax thing, stand down...

Treasury Dashes The Charity Workaround For SALT, Also Limits Tax Credit Programs For Private Schools

August 24, 2018 –
As warned earlier , Treasury proposed rules to block a state and local tax (SALT) deduction workaround strategy that had been adopted by New York...
State and Local Issues

High Hopes and Altered States: Choices, Marijuana, and Tax Revenue

August 1, 2018 –
If legalized this fall, taxing recreational marijuana in Michigan can produce a fairly large pot of money. The state's new governor, also to be chosen this fall , could modify the current marijuana tax plan. What should he or she consider?
State and Local Issues

The SALT Wars Move To Court

July 17, 2018 –
Four blue states filed a lawsuit yesterda y, claiming that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s limitation on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction...
State and Local Issues

What Will Happen To Online Sales Taxes in the Wake of the Supreme Court’s Wayfair Decision?

June 26, 2018 –
Now that the Supreme Court has made it easier for states to require online retailers to collect sales taxes, how will states and Congress respond?...
State and Local Issues

Supreme Court Gives States Wide Authority To Collect Taxes on Remote Sales

June 21, 2018 –
The US Supreme Court has given states broad authority to require online and other remote sellers to collect sales taxes. And it has largely ended...

Lessons Learned 40 Years After A Monumental Tax Law

June 21, 2018 –
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...
State and Local Issues

From Head Taxes To Parcel Taxes, Cities And States Are Looking For New Ways To Raise Revenue

June 14, 2018 –
If you are a regular reader the Tax Policy Center’s morning news summary, the Daily Deduction , you’ve probably noticed a fascinating trend: The rise...
State and Local Issues

Six Reasons Why States Shouldn’t Be Counting Their Sports Betting Tax Revenue Yet

May 16, 2018 –
Will the Supreme Court’s decision allowing states to legalize sports betting be the tax revenue jackpot that some states hope for? Perhaps, but plenty of...
State and Local Issues

Seattle's Head Tax is a Fine Idea, Given the Circumstances

May 11, 2018 –
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...