Tax Regressiveness Rumble: CA v. TX

Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy’s (ITEP) Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All Fifty States, also known as An Insomniac’s Guide to Sound Sleep, declared:

• Texas has one of the most regressive tax systems
• California has one the least regressive tax systems

Federal Funds Information for States retorted that fairness is but one aspect of analyzing taxes. Tax analysis should also include:

• adequacy
• simplicity
• transparency and
• ease of administration. 

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