Center for State Tax Policy

The Tax Foundation’s Center for State Tax Policy produces and markets timely and high-quality data, research, and analysis on state fiscal issues that influence the debate toward economically principled tax policies.

Our experts are routinely relied upon for presentations, testimony, and media appearances on state tax and fiscal policy, and our website is a comprehensive resource for information on tax and spending policy in each U.S. state. For information on your state, click on the map to the right.

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Rate Reductions Would Put Michigan in Top 10

February 9, 2022

Massachusetts Flavored Tobacco Ban: No Impact on New England Sales

February 3, 2022

State and Local Sales Tax Rates, 2022

February 3, 2022

Does Your State Levy a Capital Stock Tax?

February 1, 2022

Four Issues with Proposal to Increase Tobacco and Vapor Taxes in Maine

January 31, 2022

States Should Act Fast on UC Trust Fund Deposits, and Other Takeaways from the New Treasury Guidance on ARPA Funding

January 28, 2022

Tennessee Should Build on Success and Improve Corporate Taxes

January 26, 2022

Testimony: Kansas Should Keep Groceries in the Sales Tax Base

January 26, 2022

Mississippi Nears Income Tax Repeal but Additional Work Is Necessary

January 24, 2022

State Corporate Income Tax Rates and Brackets for 2022

January 18, 2022

Proposal to Raise Vapor Taxes in Washington State Gets Base and Rate Wrong

January 13, 2022

Net Operating Loss Provisions: State Treatment and the Economic Benefits

January 13, 2022

State Tax Changes Effective January 1, 2022

January 11, 2022

Poor Tax Design in Alaska Vapor Tax Proposal

January 7, 2022

California Considers Doubling its Taxes

January 6, 2022

Eight State Tax Reforms for Mobility and Modernization

January 5, 2022

Americans Moved to Low-Tax States in 2021

January 4, 2022

Why Washington State Can’t Claim Its Capital Gains Tax Is an Excise Tax

December 16, 2021

2022 State Business Tax Climate Index

December 16, 2021

Arkansas’s Sustainable Tax Reform: A Gift That Will Keep On Giving

December 9, 2021