Fair tax
Fair Taxation
by Ben (- Activism/Actions
- Collaborative
- Commonwealth
- Estate Tax
- Fair tax
- Government Accountability
- Legislative proposals
- Policy
- Progressive tax
- Regulation
- Revenue
- State tax
Tax fairness is the key to a fair economy, where the cost of maintaining a common government is shared on the basis of one's ability to pay.
Estate Tax
by Ben ()
UFE has been working to preserve the federal estate tax since 1999. The federal estate tax is the country's most progressive tax, and its only wealth tax. It helps prevent the concentration of wealth that weakens democracy.
Estate Tax Plans: Clinton
by Anonymous ()UFE's Lee Farris comments that Clinton's plans for the estate tax will worsen the deficit.
McClatchy News by Matt Stearns
About the Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative
by bob ()About the Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative
The Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative, convened in 2004 by United for a Fair Economy, is a network of statewide grassroots organizations that are educating and organizing for fair and adequate taxation at the state and federal levels. The Collaborative seeks to create a long-term national infrastructure of tax fairness organizing to complement the policy work of the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative and the Economic Analysis and Research Network. The
President and Congress at Odds Over Estate Tax
by Anonymous ()President Bush's FY 2008 budget still reflects full estate tax repeal, but Congress is fighting him.
Tax Fairness Resource Groups
by bob ()A list of links to other groups that focus on tax fairness issues.
Windfall Profits Tax
by bob (- Budget
- Collaborative
- Commonwealth
- Corporate Accountability
- Fair tax
- Legislative proposals
- Progressive tax
- Revenue
- State tax
Recently, oil companies have been raking in record profits off the price of crude oil and gasoline. These profits are coming at the expense of consumers, whose wallets have been increasingly pinched at the gas pump. In an effort to recover a portion of this obscene largess, legislators at the state and federal levels have been considering the imposition of a windfall profit tax (WPT).
Taxes on Services
by bob ()Expanding the Sales Tax to Services
While all states with sales taxes tax goods (i.e., furniture, computers, cars, etc), only a few impose the sales tax on services - of which there are over 100 potentially-taxable categories (i.e., car repairs, exterminators, architecture, etc.).
Expanding the sales tax to services would not only raise substantial new revenue, but would make state tax systems more fair, more stable, easier to administer and more economically neutral.
TFOC Topics of Interest
by bob (- Budget
- Collaborative
- Commonwealth
- Fair tax
- Legislative proposals
- Progressive tax
- Revenue
- Spending
- State tax
Members of the Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative with interests in particular topics participate in affinity groups. Every couple months, UFE hosts a conference call on one of these topics and invites experts to be on the call as resources. It's an opportunity to learn, ask questions, and strategize. To date, UFE has hosted conference calls on the following topics:
Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative
by bob (- Activism/Actions
- Budget
- Commonwealth
- Fair tax
- Legislative proposals
- Progressive tax
- Regulation
- Spending
- State tax
UFE brings together various state groups working on fair taxation in the Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative (TFOC). TFOC meets regularly via teleconference and face-to-face, to discuss common issues and share solutions.
