Gross Receipts and Margin Taxes Archive
New Mexico Omnibus Tax Bill (HB 547)
March 17, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares New Mexico was the ostensible setting of the 1966 film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This week, the New Mexico legislature is considering an omnibus tax bill that could make good use of the same title. House bill 547 includes some good, pro-growth tax reform, like reducing the gross receipts tax
Does Your State Have a Gross Receipts Tax?
March 7, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Today’s map looks at which states levy a gross receipts tax, which is often considered one of the most economically damaging taxes. Shifting from state gross receipts taxes would represent a pro-growth change to make tax codes friendlier to businesses and consumers alike, which is especially necessary in an increasingly mobile economy. Gross receipts taxes are applied
Tennessee Tax Plan: Details & Analysis
February 23, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Tennessee joined the ranks of no-income-tax states in 2022 with the phaseout of the Hall Tax on interest and dividend income. But with other states upping their game to attract ever-more-mobile people and businesses, lawmakers and the governor are not content to leave Tennessee’s business taxes in their current, uncompetitive form. Gov. Bill
State Capital Gains Tax Plans
February 15, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Governors and legislators have initiated income tax rate-cutting conversations in at least 18 states—and in about a dozen of those states, there may be some real traction behind the efforts. That makes for a stark contrast with another set of states in which policymakers are keen on hiking taxes on high earners and
US Tax Reform Plan: Federal Flat Tax
February 14, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings The federal tax code remains a major source of frustration and controversy for Americans, and a hindrance to economic growth and opportunity. Other countries, such as Estonia, have proven that sufficient tax revenue can be collected in a less frustrating and more efficient way. This report provides an analysis of the
State Corporate Income Tax Rates, 2023
January 24, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings Forty-four states levy a corporate income tax. Rates range from 2.5 percent in North Carolina to 11.5 percent in New Jersey. Four states—Alaska, Illinois, Minnesota, and New Jersey—levy top marginal corporate income tax rates of 9 percent or higher. Eleven states—Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Maryland Digital Advertising Tax Struck Down by Circuit Court
November 7, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As Maryland’s elected comptroller, Peter Franchot (D) is technically the defendant in two cases challenging the state’s first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax, whether he likes it or not. These days, he doesn’t seem too happy about it. In a statement issued after a Maryland circuit court ruled against the tax on three separate grounds,
2023 State Business Tax Climate Index
October 25, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Launch Our Interactive Tool Executive Summary The Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare. While there are many ways to show how much is collected in taxes by state governments, the Index is designed to show how well
Combined State and Federal Corporate Tax Rates in 2022
September 27, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Corporations in the United States pay federal corporate income taxes levied at a 21 percent rate. Forty-four states and D.C. also levy taxes on corporate income, with top marginal rates ranging from 2.5 percent in North Carolina to 11.5 percent in New Jersey. Fifteen of the states levy graduated corporate income tax rates,
State Tax Policy at the Ballot Not for the Faint of Heart
September 22, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Picture this: you arrive at your polling place this November and start filling in your ballot. Member of Congress? Check. State legislators? You did your homework! Mayor? Good to go. Whether certain property tax exemptions provided for agricultural equipment and certain farm products should be expanded to include a merger of two or
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