Individual Income and Payroll Taxes Archive

Biden Budget Tax Proposals: Details & Analysis
March 23, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Topline Preliminary Estimates Net Deficit Impact Long-run GDP Wages FTE Jobs Note: *On a conventional basis. Source: Tax Foundation General Equilibrium Model, March 2023. President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget outlines several major tax increases that would add up to nearly $4.8 trillion in new taxes targeted at businesses and high-income individuals. After $833 billion

State Debt, State Revenue, and State Tax Collections
March 23, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares How do taxes in your state compare regionally and nationally? Facts and Figures, a resource we’ve provided to U.S. taxpayers and legislators since 1941, serves as a one-stop state tax data resource that compares all 50 states on over 40 measures of tax rates, collections, burdens, and more. For visualizations and further analysis of 2023 state tax

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

Oklahoma Tax Reform Plan Would Put State in Top 10
March 14, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Tax reform was front of mind for Oklahoma lawmakers during the 2022 legislative session, but major structural reforms didn’t cross the finish line. Those efforts, however, were not wasted, as they appear to be on the verge of paying off this year with a package of bills that would significantly improve Oklahoma’s competitiveness

Massachusetts Budget Tax Plan: Gov. Healey Budget
March 13, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The tax relief package in Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (D)’s fiscal year 2024 budget proposal includes several positive developments for the Bay State. It acknowledges that Massachusetts is an outlier with respect to the estate tax and its bifurcated capital gains tax. It also subtly concedes the poor condition of the Commonwealth’s tax

Biden Tax Fairness: Double Taxation
March 13, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As President Biden pointed out in his State of the Union address to raucous applause, “I think a lot of you at home agree with me that our present tax system is simply unfair.” Two often overlooked aspects of unfairness in our tax code are complexity and double taxation, which would be made

Kansas Senate Tax Changes: Details & Analysis
March 10, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Kansas legislators are considering several tax policy changes this legislative session, and the Senate got the ball rolling on February 23rd by passing a series of bills that make senators’ tax policy priorities clear. Some of the proposed changes, such as converting to a flat individual income tax structure and inflation-indexing the standard

Biden Budget Taxes: Details & Analysis
March 9, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget outlines several major tax increases that would bring U.S. tax rates far out of step with international norms. Some of the proposals may be familiar, recycled from prior budgets and failed legislative attempts, but some are new, like the proposed tax hikes for Medicare funding. In total,

North Dakota Income Tax Reform: Details & Analysis
March 2, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares North Dakota was unable to add its name to the long list of states that enacted individual income tax rate reductions in 2022, but only because the state holds regular legislative sessions in odd-numbered years. Now policymakers in Bismarck appear determined to make up for lost time. Last week, the North Dakota House

West Virginia Tax Relief Plan: Details & Analysis
March 1, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares West Virginia’s long road to tax relief was beginning to feel older than the trees, but after many years of efforts, the state’s lawmakers are finally taking home a win. Under an agreement reached over the weekend and pending final action in the House, lawmakers and Gov. Jim Justice (R) reached a deal