Budget deal includes refundable tax credits for low- and moderate-income Mainers

“Combined with Maine’s circuit breaker property tax relief program, which was renamed and converted to a refundable income tax credit two years ago, there will now be […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted June 30, 2015

Tags Budget, EITC, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Health Care

Mainers win in King v. Burwell

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in King v. Burwell ensures that over 60,000 Mainers, will continue to be able to afford health insurance under the Affordable Care […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted June 26, 2015

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care

Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

Immigrants: Honesty, not incendiary political rhetoric

“Governor LePage is wrong to deny Maine families the help they need to provide for basic needs as they legally wait for their applications to be processed. […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted June 15, 2015

Tags Economy, Immigration

Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

What’s wrong with the governor’s tax proposal, in one chart

There are two fundamental problems with the governor’s tax reform plan. First, it doesn’t adequately target tax cuts to low- and moderate-income Mainers. Second, it would force […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted April 16, 2015

Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Maine legislators must reject the Governor’s call for a Constitutional Convention

With today’s visit from Governor Kasich of Ohio, Governor LePage appears to be buying into a radical and reckless idea to call a Constitutional Convention under Article […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted March 26, 2015

Tags Budget

Taxes and Budget

Low-income Maine residents would benefit from Governor LePage’s proposed sales tax fairness credit

Buried in Governor LePage’s tax reform proposal is a good provision that would create new refundable income tax credit for low-income Maine residents. This credit is meant […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted March 25, 2015

Tags Income Tax, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Jobs and Income

Labor Department’s minimum wage testimony misses the mark

Instead of informing yesterday’s public hearing on a raft of bills that would raise Maine’s minimum wage, the Maine Department of Labor chose to present a slew […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted March 24, 2015

Tags Minimum Wage, Wages

Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy

The only surprise in Maine’s labor force participation decline is why it took so long to happen

Maine’s labor force participation was 64.1% in 2014, down from 65.1% in 2013, according to model-based estimates from the Labor Department released earlier this year. Maine’s 2014 […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted March 19, 2015

Tags Employment, Jobs, Unemployment

Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

Many non-resident estates would benefit from Governor LePage’s proposed estate tax repeal

As I explained previously, Gov. LePage’s proposal to eliminate Maine’s estate tax would exclusively benefit the wealthy. And now, thanks to information provided to the Taxation Committee yesterday […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted March 18, 2015

Tags Estate Tax, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

Cutting Taxes on Pensions Won’t Keep Retirees from Moving to Other States

The argument that people move between states because of taxes is wildly overblown in contemporary state policy debates. Research on this issue is fairly clear: tax flight just doesn’t […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted March 4, 2015

Tags Economy, Tax Breaks, Taxes

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Budget deal includes refundable tax credits for low- and moderate-income Mainers

Mainers win in King v. Burwell

Immigrants: Honesty, not incendiary political rhetoric

What’s wrong with the governor’s tax proposal, in one chart

Maine legislators must reject the Governor’s call for a Constitutional Convention

Low-income Maine residents would benefit from Governor LePage’s proposed sales tax fairness credit

Labor Department’s minimum wage testimony misses the mark

The only surprise in Maine’s labor force participation decline is why it took so long to happen

Many non-resident estates would benefit from Governor LePage’s proposed estate tax repeal

Cutting Taxes on Pensions Won’t Keep Retirees from Moving to Other States