Taxes and Budget

MECEP Congratulates Maine Delegation for Supporting Legislation to Make Permanent Vitally Important Working Family Tax Credits

Key provisions of the earned income tax and child tax credits benefitting 37,000 Maine families including 64,000 children were set to expire in 2017 Augusta, Maine (Friday, […]

Posted December 18, 2015

Tags Tax Fairness, Taxes

Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

Maine’s working families set to score an important win in the tax package scheduled for vote in the House and Senate

More than 37,000 hardworking Maine families will keep a key income boost that helps them go to work and pay for basic necessities under a new bipartisan […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted December 16, 2015

Tags EITC, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Allowing working family tax credits to expire will make it more difficult for these families to make ends meet

Congress has the opportunity this fall to prevent key federal working family tax credits from expiring, resulting in cuts for 50 million working Americans, 16 million of […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted October 22, 2015

Tags EITC, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

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

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MECEP Congratulates Maine Delegation for Supporting Legislation to Make Permanent Vitally Important Working Family Tax Credits

Maine’s working families set to score an important win in the tax package scheduled for vote in the House and Senate

Allowing working family tax credits to expire will make it more difficult for these families to make ends meet

An agenda to give American families a much-needed raise

MECEP Statement on Gov. LePage's Proposal to Seek a Ballot Initiative to Reduce Maine’s Income Tax to 4 Percent by 2021

Time to turn off Maine’s wasteful tax expenditure “faucet”

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

Refundable Sales Tax Fairness Credit Will Benefit Low-Income Mainers

Latest Budget Deal modestly improves Maine’s tax system progressivity, future revenue adequacy less certain

Share of tax cut by income group by plan