Fair and Adequate State Revenues

Close Corporate Tax Loopholes

• State revenue losses to corporate tax sheltering
  
• State corporate income tax sheltering 2001-2003
  
  

Produce a Corporate Income Tax Report

• California's corporate income tax report (PDF page 169)
  
• Wisconsin corporate income tax report (PDF pages 11-13)
  
• Ohio corporate tax payments news story
  

Require Combined Corporate Reporting

• Combined Corporate Reporting background
  
• States that require Combined Reporting (does not include recently-passed Vermont law; PDF pages 15-16)
  
• States that have fully or partially closed corporate tax loopholes (especially PICs)
  

Withhold Partnership Income

• States requiring withholding of out-of-state partners' income
  

Modernize the Sales Tax

• Fact sheet on sales taxation of services
  
• State sales tax treatment of services background
  

Broaden the Sales Tax Base

• State sales tax coverage of services by type of service
  
• State-by-state detail of sales tax coverage of individual services
  
• Services added to Nebraska's sales tax law (page 2)
  
• Services added to Ohio's sales tax law
  

Make State Taxes More Progressive

• State tax systems have become more unfair
  

Raise Top-Rate Income Taxes

• Revenue estimates and taxpayers affected by top-rate and across-the-board income tax increases (2003 data)
  
• State-by-state data on state and local tax burdens for various income groups
  

Oppose Tax Cut Calls

• Pennsylvania legislative proposal to cut taxes by as little as 1/100th of a percentage point
  

Stop 'Property Tax Revolts' Before They Start

'Circuit Breaker' Tax Burden Limits

• Property tax Circuit Breakers
  

Homestead Exemptions

• Property tax Homestead Exemptions
  

Stop TABOR

• TABOR/TEL background information
  
• States with TABOR/TEL proposals in 2005 (PowerPoint)
  
• TABOR harms public services
  
• TABOR harms economic development
  
• TABOR impact on Ohio
  
• TABOR impact on Wisconsin
  
• Colorado TABOR reform
  

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