Education, Health Care, Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget An agenda to give American families a much-needed raise Our colleagues at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) note that “wages for the vast majority of American workers have stagnated or declined since 1979—and wage stagnation’s reach has broadened […] Mark Sullivan Posted October 15, 2015 Tags Economy, Immigration, Inequality, Infrastructure, Jobs, Tax Fairness, Taxes, Wages
Taxes and Budget MECEP Statement on Gov. LePage's Proposal to Seek a Ballot Initiative to Reduce Maine’s Income Tax to 4 Percent by 2021 Augusta, Maine (Tuesday, September 22, 2015) The Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) issued the following statement in response to media reports that Gov. LePage and the Maine Republican Party […] Posted September 22, 2015 Tags Income Tax, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget Time to turn off Maine’s wasteful tax expenditure “faucet” One of the most fundamental obligations of the governor and legislature is careful, vigilant stewardship of how the state spends taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars. There are many competing […] Mark Sullivan Posted September 2, 2015 Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget 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
Taxes and Budget Refundable Sales Tax Fairness Credit Will Benefit Low-Income Mainers Mark Sullivan Posted June 30, 2015 Tags Tax Fairness, Taxes
Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget Latest Budget Deal modestly improves Maine’s tax system progressivity, future revenue adequacy less certain Today, state legislators released details of a budget deal that, if passed, would avoid a state government shutdown. The deal includes significant changes to Maine’s tax code. […] Garrett Martin Posted June 16, 2015 Tags Budget, Revenue, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Taxes and Budget Share of tax cut by income group by plan Mark Sullivan Posted June 16, 2015 Tags Tax Fairness, Taxes
Taxes and Budget Share of state and local taxes paid by income group after plan implementation Mark Sullivan Posted June 16, 2015 Tags Tax Fairness, Taxes
Taxes and Budget The one question Republican legislators need to answer Last Friday legislative Republicans released their tax plan for the coming two-year budget cycle. In reference to the Republican plan, Maine people deserve an answer to one […] Garrett Martin Posted May 22, 2015 Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Taxes and Budget Where tax fairness is concerned, the legislative Republicans' tax plan is the worst of all Republican legislators released their plan for overhauling Maine’s tax system last week. Yesterday MECEP posted a chart comparing the distributional impacts of the Republican and Democratic plans. The […] Garrett Martin Posted May 19, 2015 Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes