State tax
Evaluating Candidates on Taxes
by bob ()Tax policy is a key method for addressing economic inequities. But it can be difficult to evaluate a candidate's position on taxes. That's why we created these Action Tools, ways to use the Action Tools, and a space for you to tell us how you used them.
Tax Fairness Campaign Victories
by pmuner ()Major successes across the country with progressive policy and fair taxation campaigns are featured in the second issue of the Tax Fairness Action News.
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.
State Budget Woes Mean Opportunity for Progressive Tax Advocates
by lgendall ()The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) reports that over half of the 50 states anticipate budget problems in the fiscal year 2009. The combined budget shortfall could be over $37 billion. To the extent that new taxes will be needed, there are major opportunities to make them progressive. From UFE's March 2008 E-News.
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.
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
Corporate Loopholes Need Plugging
by bob ()http://cjonline.com/stories/102607/opi_212146319.shtml
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).
Disclosure of Subsidy Deals
by bob (- Collaborative
- Commonwealth
- Corporate Accountability
- Government Accountability
- Legislative proposals
- State tax
Economic development subsidy decisions are often made in secret by political and corporate powerbrokers. Rarely is there public input into subsidy deals - or even knowledge of basic information like costs and benefits. And yet, such deals total $50 billion per year in taxpayer expenditures.
