revenue stability Archive
Florida Gas Tax: DeSantis Gas Tax Relief Proposal
November 23, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) knows how to make a splash, and his proposal to suspend the state’s gas tax—temporarily, but without a specific end date—will only burnish that reputation. Citing rising prices at the pump and the state’s substantial revenue surplus, the governor is calling upon the legislature to take the state’s
Sustainable Mississippi Income Tax Reduction
November 23, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Thanks to increased tax revenues from higher consumer spending, sustained economic growth, and both the primary and secondary effects of federal COVID-19 relief programs, many states are flush with cash, and a significant number have used at least some of their surplus to provide tax relief. Many Mississippi lawmakers would like to join
Billionaires Tax on Capital Gains Invites Tax Collection Volatility
October 26, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Congressional Democrats are reported to be weighing a special tax on the assets of billionaires to raise revenues to pay for their Build Back Better spending plan. There are two fundamental challenges to such a plan. First, the incomes and wealth of such individuals are anything but stable; they rise and fall with
Corporate Tax Revenue Hit an All-Time High in 2021
October 12, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now estimates that the federal government received $370 billion in corporate tax revenue over the past year (fiscal year 2021), matching the record high level from 2007. This is a 75 percent increase over the previous year’s total, reflecting a rebound in corporate profits and the broader economy.
Florida Corporate Income Tax Rate: Lawmakers Should Provide Certainty
October 1, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Florida is now the ninth state to implement or adopt a corporate income tax cut in 2021, with the state’s new rate the nation’s second lowest—for now. Five states adopted corporate income tax cuts legislatively this year, two states (Arkansas and Indiana) implemented rate relief as part of previously enacted phased reductions, and
Federal Plastics Tax Is Not a Good Revenue Raiser
September 30, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares One of the Senate’s proposals to pay for the Build Back Better Act is a federal excise tax on virgin plastics, which are plastics that are not reprocessed or recovered. The tax would be $0.20 per pound of virgin plastics used to make single-use plastics products. While few details have been released about
Weighing the Options for Financing Reconciliation
September 29, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Last week, The New York Times reported that in opposing corporate or individual income tax increases, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has pushed other Senate Democrats, such as Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), to consider a carbon tax to finance some of the infrastructure package. A carbon tax would be a less economically harmful pay-for
Federal Judge Rules Against American Rescue Plan Tax Cuts Mandate
September 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Kentucky and Tennessee won an important legal victory Friday when a federal court ruled that the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)’s restrictions on state fiscal autonomy were unconstitutional and enjoined (blocked) the enforcement of those provisions against both states. Specifically, Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove held that the ARPA provision, which limited states’ authority
Economy Loses More than Revenue Gains
September 22, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As Congress debates next steps on the tax provisions in the Build Back Better Act proposed in the House Ways and Means Committee, it is important to consider the economic impacts, which include reduced economic output, wages, and jobs. Due to the plan’s economically costly and inefficient tax increases, we find that long-run
