Independent Analysis and Information on Iowa Tax and Budget Issues

The highest-paid Iowans have to work 3 weeks per year to pay their state and local tax obligation (5.8% of income). The lowest-paid Iowans have to work twice as long to do the same (10.6% of income).
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Research
 
3/31/2008
Putting Fairness First
• Questions for Financing Public Services in Iowa
• Improving Fairness by Expanding Iowa's Earned Income Tax Credit
 
3/6/2008
A Capital (Gains) Offense
Unnoticed But Lasting Change Undermines Iowa Tax Code
 
2/27/2008
Iowa's Tax-Credit Bonanza
Open Ends and Closed Books: How Iowa is Giving Away the Farm
 
2/4/2008
Spotlight on Secret Checks
Taxing Mystery: Big Benefits from Research Activities Credit, But for Whom?
 
4/24/2007
Tracking Tax Giveaways
Earthpark Plan Raises Significant Policy Questions
 
4/11/2007
Leveling the Playing Field
How to Restore Fairness to Iowa's Corporate Income Tax by Closing Loopholes
 
3/27/2007
Taxing the Poor in Iowa
Report Shows Need for Low-Income Tax Reform
 
3/14/2007
How the EITC Hits Home
Where Iowans Claim the Earned Income Tax Credit
 
3/13/2007
Next Piece of the Puzzle
After Minimum Wage, Iowa Looks at Earned Income Tax Credit
 
2/22/2007
Falling Below Average
Why Iowa Taxes are Competitive
 
2/15/2007
Looking Before We Leap
A Review of the Commercial Property Tax Task Force Recommendations
 
12/19/2006
Looking Behind the Curtain
Unveiling the Problem of Tax Expenditures in Iowa
 
11/28/2006
Restoring Fairness and Revenue
Reform Measures for Iowa's Corporate Income Tax
 
11/27/2006
Prescriptions and Placebos
Fixing Health Care in Iowa
 
11/14/2006
No Longer a Leader?
Investments and Student Achievement in Iowa
 
9/7/2006
Health Care in Iowa: A Continuing Problem of Access
 
4/11/2006
Revitalizing Iowa's Corporate Income Tax
 
3/17/2006
How Should Government Tax Incentive Stock Options? (pdf)
 
2/22/2006
Untaxing Seniors: A 'Solution' in Search of a Problem
 
1/24/2006
Securing Iowa’s Economic Future
 
1/9/2005
Older Iowans, Economic Security, and State Fiscal Policy (pdf)
 
10/19/2005
IowaCare: Need for Caution
 
6/6/2005
Hunger in the Heartland
A Portrait of Food Need in Northeast Iowa
 
5/19/2005
Combating Hunger
The Whos, Whys, and Hows of Food Assistance
 
4/19/2005
Iowa's Personal Income Tax
Reform for Iowans at Any Age
 
 
2/1/2005
Our Vanishing Budgets
Iowa's Response to the Fiscal Crisis in the State
 
1/13/2005
A Chronic Budget Crisis
Can Iowa Keep Its Promises?
 
12/15/2004
Iowa's State Fiscal Crisis and Its Impact on Local Governments
Cities and Counties Face Tough Choices and Diminished State Support
 
12/10/2004
Iowa's State Fiscal Crisis and Its Impact on Human Services
New Holes in the Safety Net
 
11/22/2004
Iowa's State Fiscal Crisis and Its Impact on Education
Erosion of Support at All Levels
 
9/29/2004
The State Fiscal Crisis, 2001-2004: Comparing Iowa's Responses to Others
 
 
9/27/2004
Average by Any Measure: State and Local Taxes in Iowa
 
7/26/2004
Whose Bonus? No Rationale for Adopting Federal Depreciation Options
 
7/9/2004
Iowa Taxes on Social Security Benefits: The Facts
 
6/18/2004
Rethinking Iowa's Personal Income Tax — Principle-Based Reform
 
4/1/2004
Property Tax Assessment in Iowa
 
3/8/2004
Iowa Voters and Taxes: Strong Public Support for Maintaining Services
 
2/4/2004
Everything You Wanted to Know about Closing Tax Loopholes...
But Were Afraid to Ask
 
10/21/2003
What Would Real Tax Reform Look Like in Iowa?
 
4/29/2003
The Merits of a Cigarette Tax, with Alternative Tax Offsets
 
4/21/2003
How to Balance the Budget by Cutting Tax Preferences
 
4/9/2003
Tax Increment Financing in Iowa: What Should Be Done?
 
1/22/2002
Tax Policy & Economic Growth in Iowa: Who Gained in the 1990s?
 
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