50-State Tax Maps

This booklet was recently made available by the national Tax Foundation. Facts&Figures_15 (download pdf file) Facts&Figures_15 (Excel file hosted by Tax Foundation)  

By Kyle Pomerleau, Richard Borean of the Tax Foundation For this week’s tax map, we’re continuing our series on pass-through businesses. For the first map of the series, check out our two previous maps (here and here) Sole proprietorships, S … Read More

Pass-through Businesses Account for More than $1.6 Trillion of Payroll By Kyle Pomerleau, Richard Borean of the Tax Foundation For this week’s tax map, we’re continuing our series on pass-through businesses. For the first map of the series, check out our map from … Read More

More than Half of all Private Sector Workers are Employed by Pass-through Businesses By Kyle Pomerleau, Richard Borean of the Tax Foundation This week’s tax map comes from a report we released this morning and takes a look at the amount of private … Read More

On January 15, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) released a report ranking the States in terms of how progressive their tax systems are.  Here is the executive summary of that report: The 2015 Who Pays: A Distributional … Read More

By Liz Malm, Richard Borean of the Tax Foundation Though taxes are the most common and recognizable source of state government revenues, it’s important to remember that they’re not the only source. In fact, state governments received 31.5 percent of their total general … Read More

Courtesy of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii Low Ranking on Small Business Policy Index Points to Need for Economic Reform HONOLULU, HAWAII–Dec. 11, 2014–Hawaii is the fourth-worst state in the nation when it comes to policies that are friendly to … Read More

Courtesy of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii:   Texas and South Dakota have tied for the highest level of economic freedom among all U.S. states, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public … Read More

By Kyle Pomerleau of the Tax Foundation In the past three decades, the importance of “pass-through” businesses has grown substantially. The combined net income of sole proprietors, LLCs, Partnerships, and S corporations has increased fivefold and now accounts for more … Read More

By Scott Drenkard, Richard Borean of the Tax Foundation When businesses suffer losses in a calendar year, well-structured corporate tax codes allow them to deduct those losses against previous or future tax returns. These provisions are called net operating loss … Read More