http://www.indyweek.com/citizen/archives/2011/02/22/make-state-taxes-fair-or-fair-er-anyway-what-perdue-couldve-done Comments On: Make state taxes fair (or fair-er, anyway): What Perdue could've done by Bob Geary en-us Copyright 2013 Indy Week. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Indy Week readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Indy Week. pweber@indyweek.com (Indy Week Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:45:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by BH]]> Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:05:14 -0500 Indy Week Posted by BH]]> Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:58:35 -0500 Indy Week Posted by Mel B]]> Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:39:52 -0500 Indy Week Posted by Will Wilson]]> Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:29:25 -0500 Indy Week http://www.itepnet.org/wp2009/nc_whopays_f…
Posted by edmclen]]> Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:09:43 -0500 Indy Week
The reason for making the state income tax more progressive is that it's currently insufficiently progressive to compensate for the extreme regressivity of the state and local sales and excise taxes that make up more than a third of all state and local revenue.
Posted by edmclen]]> Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:07:18 -0500 Indy Week
1) the state income tax is essentially a flat tax; that is, it is virtually the same rate (6-7%) on all income above very small base amounts depending on whether you're filing jointly, single, etc. (take a look at the Center's powerpoint presentation to which I linked for the specific base amounts); moreover, the rate is applied to federal taxable income, in effect excluding from state taxes a slew of deductions from income, which makes the "flat" tax somewhat regressive in practice.
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