04.03.20
States are currently facing monumental fiscal challenges posed by the economic and revenue impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. However, their ability to use fiscal policies to address these challenges is quite limited due to structural and capacity issues. Only the federal government has the...
03.27.20
This blog post presents information about the different types of individual income taxes imposed by state governments in the United States.
In 2020 forty-one states levied individual income taxes. States currently use flat rate or graduated rate models for their individual income tax...
03.24.20
03.20.20
Throughout the United States there is a bipartisan consensus that...
03.13.20
As Illinois voters head to the polls for next week’s Presidential primary, this blog post looks at another major choice that will be on the general election ballot in November: whether to replace the State’s flat-rate income tax with a graduated rate structure. The post reviews the proposed new...
03.06.20
As described in a previous blog post , Governor J.B. Pritzker’s...
02.28.20
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s second budget proposal avoids many of the pitfalls of his...
02.21.20
The Civic Federation, in partnership with the Union League Club of Chicago, co-hosted a panel featuring candidates for Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County on February 21, 2020. The Civic Federation thanks the four Democratic candidates for their participation in the event:
Richard...02.13.20
In December the Civic Federation explored how Illinois, its local governments and other states tax recreational cannabis. In this post we will look at how those cannabis tax revenues...
02.05.20
In the November 2020 general election, Cook County voters will elect a new Circuit Court Clerk for the first time since 2000, with current Clerk Dorothy Brown opting not to run for reelection. Four Democratic candidates and one Republican candidate have...
01.27.20
The Civic Federation recently released its annual Effective Property Tax Rates report . The report highlights that in 2017 property tax burdens for many...
01.24.20
More than 50 years after Illinois began taxing residents’ income, voters in 2020 will decide whether the structure of the income tax should undergo a major change. The issue is highly controversial, and the decision will have a long-lasting impact on the State’s finances.
Since Illinois...
01.16.20
On December 19, 2019 the Illinois Supreme Court struck down the City of Chicago’s ordinance imposing a tax on other tobacco products. The Supreme Court sided with the plaintiff that the City’s...
01.10.20
Annually the Civic Federation releases a report on consumer taxes in the City of Chicago. Consumer taxes are tied to the use or consumption of certain goods and services that can be charged directly to consumers through retail transactions or passed onto consumers by businesses or governments....
12.30.19
The Civic Federation’s blog turned 10 years old in 2019. The following are summaries of the five most read posts presented on the Civic Federation’s blog throughout the decade in chronological order....
