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Does Your State Levy a Capital Stock Tax?
February 1, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Today’s map looks at a barrier to state tax competitiveness in a time of increasing mobility: capital stock taxes. Unlike corporate income taxes, which are levied on a business’s net income (or profit), capital stock taxes are imposed on a business’s net worth (or accumulated wealth). As such, the tax tends to penalize investment and

Build on Success and Improve Corporate Taxes
January 26, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Tennessee made important strides in improving its tax structure when it completed phaseout of the Hall Tax—the state’s income tax, which was levied only on interest and dividends income. This change was many years in the works, making Tennessee the eighth state without an individual income tax. But while Tennessee now boasts no