Moving Target: Pennsylvania’s Flawed Implementation of the Voter ID Law
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is still falling short in its implementation of a requirement in the state’s strict new...
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Memo to House Finance Committee: Significant Flaws in Inheritance Tax, Bank Loans Tax Legislation
PA Budget and Policy center urges Pennsylvanians to reconsider Inheritance Tax and Bank Loans Tax Legislation, which would provide...
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Memo: Governor’s Tax Cut Plan Falls Short of Reform
Hidden deep within Governor Tom Corbett’s proposed 2013-14 budget is a plan to enact a 30% cut in Pennsylvania’s...
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Memo to House: Vote No on Private Jets Tax Break
The House will once again consider HB 1100, which would eliminate sales and use tax on the purchase of...
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Memo to Newspaper Editors: Save Tobacco Settlement Dollars for Health Care
In a memo to editorial board members, Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Director Sharon Ward wrote that policymakers should...
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Maintain and Improve State Inheritance Tax, Don’t Eliminate It
Sharon Ward of The PA Budget and Policy Center testifies before the House Finance Committee regarding state inheritance tax....
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Lawmakers Examine Proposed Legislative Fiscal Office
PA Budget and Policy Center Director, Sharon Ward, testifies during a public hearing, examining a plan to examined a...
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A Memo to Editorial Page Editors and Columnists on the State Budget
On May 21, 2010, the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center hosted a conference call with editorial page editors and...
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Responsible Growth: Protecting Public Interest with a Natural Gas Severance Tax
Every state with significant mineral wealth, with the exception of Pennsylvania, has adopted a severance tax on the resource...
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Toward a Fair PA Tax System
Pennsylvania has a famously antiquated corporation tax system. This system taxes the profits of some home-grown Pennsylvania corporations at...
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Testimony: The Best Way to Improve Philadelphia’s Business Climate? Fund the Schools.
This is the Testimony that Sharon Ward presented to the Philadelphia City Council Finance Committee on December 11, 2013...
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Report: Exaggerating the Employment Impacts of Shale Drilling: How and Why
Exaggerated claims are dispelled in this Reports and Research Papers, which sheds light on the truth behind job growth...
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