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How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level

NonProfit Quarterly

When it comes to racial and economic justice and government taxation, federal policy tends to get the most attention. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging shifting the tax burden from the well-to-do to the least well off.

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Can Taxes Reduce Inequality? What a Study of State and Local Taxes Tells Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) published Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, its seventh study on the topic since 1996 and its first since 2018. What Is State Taxation Like Today? A Progressive Path Can state taxation be progressive?

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.

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Finally, the questions you should ask that have been proven to lead to gifts from wealth

iMarketSmart

Any children? Visual planned giving: An introduction to the law and taxation of charitable gift planning. Make questions part of another task Sometimes, we can be blunt. As an estate planning attorney, I ask blunt questions to clients. What real estate do you own? Who’s on the title? What’s it worth? Bank accounts?

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Meet the New Global Tax Haven, the United States

NonProfit Quarterly

Typical uses, they note, are for parents to establish funds for their children to access after they become adults or for a caregiver to establish a fund to ensure care continues for a loved one after their death. This rule was based on a 1682 British common law case. The rule was law throughout the land until the 1980s.

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The Social Contract: What’s Missing in the “Historic” Biden Legislation?

NonProfit Quarterly

trillion bill, which is only true if you count the $650 billion for roads and infrastructure that was already law before the bill’s passage. Taxation is mildly deflationary, since, by definition, taxes reduce the money available for consumer purchases. million children out of poverty in 2021. percent increase from the $4.9

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Taxes, Race, and Justice: Confronting “Quiet Violence” Against Black Americans

NonProfit Quarterly

This series explores how the taxation systems quiet violence enacted against Black Americans leads not only to financial inequality but also to stolen legacies, futures, peace, and healthand presents solutions for equitable change. Unequal Enforcement : Tax laws are often applied unequally. The rhetoric used in the wake of Brown v.