As many states enter a new fiscal year this month, it’s an ideal time to take a closer look at a major but often overlooked category of government spending: tax expenditures. To make these programs ...

Twenty states have sales tax holidays in 2026. These sales tax holidays will cost states and localities nearly $600 million ...

As our nation celebrates and reflects 250 years since its adoption of the Declaration of Independence, several states have ...

Crypto provides no clear benefit and instead harms society in several ways. Even if crypto was useful in some way that outweighed the harms it causes, there is no reason to make exceptions that treat ...

Who Pays? is the only distributional analysis of tax systems in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This comprehensive 7th edition of the report assesses the progressivity and regressivity of ...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen introduced legislation requiring big multinational corporations to tell shareholders and the public what they’re already telling tax authorities behind closed doors: how much ...

On August 4, Missouri voters will vote on whether to increase taxes on the middle class and seniors to fund tax cuts for the richest households in the state. Amendment 5 would do away with the state’s ...

Most states use the federal tax code as a starting point for their calculations of state personal income taxes, corporate income taxes, and estate taxes. Changes to the federal code and federal tax ...

In early August, Missouri voters will decide one of the most consequential state tax policy questions in recent memory: ...

Property taxes on land and buildings are the oldest and still the largest major revenue source for state and local governments. They fund schools, health care, public safety, and other services. They ...