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What’s behind the legislative budget stalemate
The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, a more left-leaning think tank, seemed to prefer the Senate's approach. The center says Massachusetts businesses received an estimated ...
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Analysis: Business tax hike would address inequity
Corporate excise taxes in the 1980s accounted for about 16 percent of the state's total tax haul each year, according to MassBudget. The corporate share ...
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Easier than you think: Finding fair revenue that hides in plain sight
As one of the highest-income states in the country, people might think Massachusetts leads the nation in bold initiatives like universal childcare, debt-free college, and ...
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Our View: Another tax at the pump?
The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center reports the tax hit on Bay State drivers is now about a dime cheaper than the average paid by ...
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Business groups support increase in gas tax, ride share fees for transportation fixes
Every penny added to the state's gas tax could produce roughly $32 million in new annual revenue, the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center wrote in ...
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House leaders talk transpo taxes
The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center earlier this month published a paper in which they estimated that the state could raise about $32 million in ...
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Our Opinion: Corporate tax break needs better argument
Massachusetts business groups will need a better argument than the one presented by Rep. Cusack if they are to get their change to the 2017 ...
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Mass Education Funding Forum Comes To Sudbury
The League of Women Voters of Sudbury and First Parish of Sudbury Unitarian Universalist are co-sponsoring a public forum "State Education Funding: Does It Make ...
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A caution on hiking ‘regressive’ gas tax
Gas taxes are a "regressive" approach to generating revenue that "tend to hit those with low and moderate incomes the hardest," according to the report ...
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Report: Higher Gas Tax, Like Higher Transit Fares, Could Increase Inequality
While many sustainable transportation advocates champion higher gasoline taxes as a way to pay for transportation improvements, a new report from the Massachusetts Budget and ...
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