NPP Releases State of the States Report; ITEP Shows Who Pays

The National Priorities Project recently released two comprehensive reports that provide very useful state-by-state, as well as nation-wide, data. The Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy's Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in all Fifty States shows that, on average, state and local tax systems require the poorest taxpayers to pay the highest effective tax rates.

The National Priorities Project recently released two comprehensive reports that provide very useful state-by-state, as well as nation-wide, data. The Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy's Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in all Fifty States shows that, on average, state and local tax systems require the poorest taxpayers to pay the highest effective tax rates.

From the National Priorities Project:

  • State of the States 2003, which provides a snapshot of the current needs in each state and illustrates how the Bush Administration's spending and tax policies have failed to address these needs.

  • Federal Budget Year in Review 2002, which provides a quick analysis of key Bush Administration tax and spending policies as they relate to social needs, military spending and tax policy.

The Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy has released its study Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in all Fifty States, finding that, on average, state and local tax systems require the poorest taxpayers to pay the highest effective tax rates. The cuts in services to low-income families that are being implemented as a result of the states’ fiscal crises means that these families will not only pay more in taxes, but receive even less in benefits. Check out the figures for your state!

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