by lftcrtv | Jan 17, 2017
The one tax that conservatives seem to hate more than any other is the estate tax. Before the significant estate tax relief enacted in 2014 is even fully phased-in, they want to cut the tax again. However, the estate tax is an effective way to prevent the accumulation...
by lftcrtv | Sep 29, 2016
The conservative Tax Foundation just released the 2017 version of its State Business Tax Climate Index (SBTCI) and once again, Minnesota is purportedly in terrible shape. Minnesota policymakers need only follow a simple strategy to improve its ranking on the SBTCI:...
by lftcrtv | May 18, 2016
Fully exempting Social Security from the state income tax will result in a rapidly escalating state revenue loss and will have consequences that violate several principles of good tax policy. These and other aspects of plans to exempt all Social Security benefits were...
by lftcrtv | May 17, 2016
Most of the tax relief resulting from the elimination of taxes on Social Security income will not go to low-income seniors who are living off of their monthly Social Security check, but to relatively high income households that are likely to have significant sources...
by lftcrtv | Apr 21, 2016
The term “fair tax” refers to proposals to repeal individual and corporate income taxes and several other taxes and replace them with a broad-based sales tax. How will this tax impact taxpayers of differing incomes? As it turns out, the answer depends on how the fair...
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