State Tax Reform Archive

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

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Kentucky legislators are considering various sales and property tax changes this legislative session as part of H.B. 360, a bill that passed the House on March 8th with a committee substitute and the Senate on March 13th with a Senate committee substitute. The bill is likely to head to a conference committee that

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

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

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

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

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Georgia lawmakers brought a tax reform package across the finish line in 2022 that will change the state’s progressive income tax to a 5.49 percent flat tax beginning in 2024, with triggers to provide additional rate reductions. This is an important step forward, but if the state truly wants to cement its status