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What Drives State Tax Reforms?

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  • James Alm
  • Trey Dronyk-Trosper
  • Steven M. Sheffrin

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State tax reform is fundamentally different than federal tax reform. States are continually modifying their taxes to meet revenue challenges and to cope with the changing structure of the national and regional economy. Most state tax reforms are modest affairs and not major rewrites of the tax codes. Reforms must consider the existing institutional structure of the state, state economic policies, and current state politics. Nonetheless, there are some common themes in reforms across the states, including an expansion of the sales tax base to include services and a broadening of the base for income taxation.

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  • James Alm & Trey Dronyk-Trosper & Steven M. Sheffrin, 2017. "What Drives State Tax Reforms?," Public Finance Review, , vol. 45(4), pages 443-457, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pubfin:v:45:y:2017:i:4:p:443-457
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    1. Simone Pellegrino & Guido Perboli & Giovanni Squillero, 2019. "Balancing the equity-efficiency trade-off in personal income taxation: an evolutionary approach," Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Springer;Fondazione Edison, vol. 36(1), pages 37-64, April.

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    • H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations

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