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Louisiana Legislature Approves Basketball Tax Breaks
The Louisiana legislature has approved a bill that would continue to provide tax breaks to the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets. The tax credits, $37...
Publications
Studies & Reports
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Brief on-line analyses of tax policy issues distributed via email to journalists, lawmakers, corporate tax professionals and others. (Free sign-up here).
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Policy studies of current tax and spending issues, including state and local tax burdens and Tax Freedom Day®.
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Longer scholarly studies of tax policy issues, including the State Business Tax Climate Index, international tax policy, and lottery taxes.
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Amicus curiae briefs—literally “friend of the court”’ briefs—allow the Tax Foundation to weigh in on important tax cases by encouraging courts to weigh the economic impact of their decisions.
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Testifying before Congress and state legislatures is one way Tax Foundation economists urge federal and state legislators to follow the principles of sound tax policy in crafting tax law.
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Revenue estimates of suggested changes to the federal individual income tax.
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Technical working papers and other academic and methodological studies.
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Newsletters
The Tax Foundation's quarterly tax policy newsletter, presenting summaries of our economists' latest research in a simple, non-technical format. Topics include tax reform, odd taxes from the past, Tax Foundation commentary and more. If you'd like to receive a free subscription to Tax Watch, click here.
The Tax Foundations former bimonthly policy review, published 1957-2004. Contains in-depth, semi-technical articles on topical issues in tax policy. Topics include state business tax climates, state tax collections and rates, Tax Freedom Day® and more.
Books
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How do taxes in your state compare nationally? This convenient pocket-size booklet compares the 50 states on 37 different measures of taxing and spending, including individual and corporate income tax rates, business tax climates, excise taxes, tax burdens and state spending.
A Special Tax Foundation Publication
Facts and Figures on Government Finance is the Tax Foundation's unique one-volume resource on government taxing and spending. Published regularly since 1941, Facts and Figures brings together data on public finance at all levels of government, with comparisons of taxing and spending levels spanning a half century. Facts and Figures answers every question on the income tax and thousands more:
Hardback $65.00 (FedEx Ground included); Paperback $45.00 (FedEx Ground included) Facts and Figures on Government Finance is the Tax Foundation's unique one-volume resource on government taxing and spending.
Facts and Figures on Government Finance answers every question on the income tax and thousands more:
• Which states might tax me the least? • How much of the nation’s earnings is collected in taxes? • How much income tax do wealthy Americans pay? • Which states get the most in federal spending?
This accessible volume is the Federal Budget of the U.S. Government writ small, and in plain English. Though the President’s Budget was over 2,500 pages, the Taxpayer's Guide cuts almost 90 percent of it—and you won’t miss a thing.
Research Publication No. 7
ForewordAdvocates of economy in Federal spending are confronted perennially with the blunt question: "Where can we cut?" Now the President has proposed an unprecedented peacetime budget of $85.4 billion for fiscal 1953 and there is renewed clamor in and out of Congress for sharp reductions. To the inevitable question of where to cut, this compendium provides some answers. Here are three volumes containing a representative sample of statements outlining proposed savings and illustrating waste in the Federal budget of fiscal 1952.
Foreword Advocates of economy in Federal spending are confronted perennially with the blunt question: "Where can we cut?" Now the President has proposed an unprecedented peacetime budget of $85.4 billion for fiscal 1953 and there is renewed clamor in and out of Congress for sharp reductions. To the inevitable question of where to cut, this compendium provides some answers. Here are three volumes containing a representative sample of statements outlining proposed savings and illustrating waste in the Federal budget of fiscal 1952.
Foreword Advocates of economy in Federal spending are confronted perennially with the blunt question: "Where can we cut?" Now the President has proposed an unprecedented peacetime budget of $85.4 billion for fiscal 1953 and there is renewed clamor in and out of Congress for sharp reductions. To the inevitable question of where to cut, this compendium provides some answers. Here are three volumes containing a representative sample of statements outlining proposed savings and illustrating waste in the Federal budget of fiscal 1952.
Foreword Facts and Figures on Government Finance, 1944, is not only a successor to similar earlier volumes published by the Tax Foundation—it has in this edition extended its usefulness by including sections on national income and public administration.
Foreword To the task of victory, this nation, its people, their enterprise and industry have dedicated themselves. The price will not be cheap. Victory will be bought with blood and tears which are beyond valuation. It will also be bought with dollars—more billons of dollars than have ever been spent by any nation on earth—more billons than any people have ever found themselves called upon to provide—so may billons as to be beyond the comprehension of all but a few.
Foreword This, the first edition of Tax Facts and Figures, is a statistical and graphic summary of data relating to Federal, state and local finances. For the first time the widely scattered facts on tax collections, public expenditures and public debt are assembled in one convenient and concise handbook.