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.

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Lotteries: Entering the Big Time in State Finance

November 11, 1987

Business Tax Burdens-II

January 24, 1986

VAT After All?

August 5, 1985

State and Local Sales Taxes

August 1, 1970

Nontax Revenues

December 1, 1968

Medicaid: State Programs After Two Years

June 1, 1968

Urban Mass Transportation in Perspective

April 1, 1968

City Income Taxes

December 1, 1967

Handbook of State and Local Government Finance

December 1, 1966

Public Financing of Higher Education

February 1, 1966

Current Problems and Issues in State Taxation of interstate Commerce

January 30, 1966

State Expenditure Controls: An Evaluation (Research Publication No. 3)

October 1, 1965

State Expenditure Controls: An Evaluation (Government Finance Brief No. 2)

October 1, 1965

Earmarked State Taxes

June 1, 1965

Factors Affecting Industrial Location: A Bibliography

December 1, 1956

Facts & Figures on Government Finance, Third Edition

January 1, 1944

State Aid and Local Property Taxes

December 17, 1943

Facts & Figures on War Finance, Second Edition

January 1, 1942

Facts & Figures: The First Edition (1941)

May 15, 1941

A Fiscal Summary of the New England States

December 1, 1940