Revenue
How to Use Action Tools for Evaluating Candidates on Taxes
by HShapiro ()Trying to figure out how much a candidate's proposals fit with your values can be challenging. That's why we developed a valuable action tool to help you evaluate the fairness of tax proposals.
The Action Tool contains key progressive tax principles and sample questions to use when researching candidates' positions and for asking candidates directly. Using the Action Tool could influence candidates' positions and increase public support for fair taxation.
Tax Fairness Action News - Back Issues
by bob ()This bi-annual publication of the Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative (TFOC), showcases the critical organizing experiences and victories of TFOC's members. Find back issues here.
2007 EZ Tax Cut Table
by bob ()
Source: Tax Policy Center Table T06-0274, Nov. 13, 2006. (Does not include the effect of capital gains tax cuts enacted in 1997.)
*Includes wages and salaries, investment income, and government benefits on a pretax basis.
These are estimates of the personal share of the Bush tax cuts for the 2007 tax year.
Estate Tax Supporters Convene in DC to Lobby Congress
by bob ()As efforts to preserve the federal estate tax continue in 2008, estate tax supporters from across the country will come together for an estate tax briefing to be held during the Take Back America conference, followed by a day of Capitol Hill visits to lobby Congressional representatives and senators from their home districts.
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.
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:
Asset Development
by Ben ()Asset-Building Links
