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Due to their regressive nature, raising state and local sales taxes should not be the first choice for increasing tax revenues.
States and localities should include services in the taxable base to reduce regressivity and improve neutrality.
Exemptions from state retail sales taxes should be narrowly designed to reduce their regressive nature and avoid pyramiding.
Goods sold over the internet and through catalogs should be subject to the same sales tax treatment as goods sold by local brick-and-mortar retailers.
Policymakers should broaden the tax base by limiting tax preferences that do not efficiently achieve important policy goals.
Any further efforts to address marriage penalties should be focused on two-earner couples and structured to avoid increasing marriage bonuses.
Policymakers should establish requirements or provide incentives for universal design features to be incorporated into homes.
Policymakers and the private sector should implement Universal Mobility as a Service to expand access to transportation for everyone in the community.