The Road Less Traveled: States That More Tightly Control the Sale and Distribution of Alcohol Have Lower Alcohol-Related Fatalities
What impact would the privatization of Pennsylvania’s retail and wholesale alcohol operations have on the number of alcohol-related traffic...
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Beware the Free Lunch: A Critique of the Proposal to Privatize Pennsylvania Wine and Liquor Sales
In 2011, the Corbett Administration commissioned a study by Public Financial Management Group Inc. (PFM) of the state revenue,...
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Giving Away the Store: A Preliminary Analysis of the Corbett Administration-commissioned Liquor Privatization Analysis
A study commissioned by Governor Tom Corbett’s administration contains several flaws that cast doubt on its findings in support...
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The Truth About Business Taxes in Pennsylvania, Part 2: Business Tax Burden is Highly Unevenly Distributed
A previous KRC paper found that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the amount in taxes that Pennsylvania businesses pay, on...
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Natural Gas Producers in PA Don’t Pay Their Fair Share
The natural gas industry and its allies continue to claim that Pennsylvania’s impact fee amounts to a tax that...
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March Collections Show Why We Need Corporate Tax Reform in Pennsylvania
March is always the most important month for the collection of corporate taxes because nearly half of all corporate...
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Cutting Corporate Taxes Won’t Spur Economic Growth
Flying in the face of the often heard rhetoric that tax cuts are the cure for all ills, a...
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Business Tax Breaks are Burning the PA Budget Pie
Deep cuts to critical human services, health care, and education loom in 2014-15 as lawmakers attempt to bridge a...
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Some Major Corporations Pay Little or Nothing in State Income Taxes
What do Pennsylvania-based companies PPL, H.J. Heinz, Airgas, Allegheny Technologies, Hershey, and Comcast have in common? They each pay...
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Governor’s Corporate Tax Cut Plan Will Cost $800 Million
I am testifying before the Pennsylvania House Finance Committee today on Governor Tom Corbett’s plan to cut the state’s...
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PA Budget in Fair Shape as Midyear Approaches, but Business Tax Cuts Loom
The Pennsylvania General Fund tax and other revenue collections are slightly ahead of official estimates through November. This is...
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Amazon Takes Its Ball and Goes Home Over Sales Tax Bill
According to an article in Monday’s State Tax Notes (subscription required), Amazon has decided to shutter a warehouse facility...
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