Those are spending choices; they take money from the state Treasury, just like funding a program or salary, because any law that reduces the tax obligation of an individual or business has the same overall effect on the budget as a law requiring the ...
We focus on several proposed measures. The most important and potentially most expensive is called single sales. It's a change in how business taxes are calculated. (A 2626/ S 2136). It would base taxes only on what a business sells in New Jersey, ...
About a dozen states have sales tax holidays, but none as broad as the five-week New Jersey proposal. Usually they last for a shorter period of time and involve the tax on a specific group of items, such as school supplies. Evidence from other states ...
In 2004, New Jersey raised the state income tax by 2.6 cents per dollar on income above $500,000 a year. The so-called millionaires' tax grew out of a proposal from us at NJ Policy Perspective http://www.njpp.org/ adopted by the Fairness Alliance, a ...
Another year, another budget. And not a lot of progress in digging out of New Jersey?s financial hole or making the overall state and local fiscal structure as fair and productive as it should be. In passing a nearly $33 billion plan, Trenton hailed a ...
A broad coalition of organizations announced the launch of a new campaign to prevent the proposed state budget cuts and return the state to a path of investing in its future. The Better Choices Budget Campaign, which includes environmental, housing, ...
One, too often New Jersey pulls the rug out from under people just as they are starting to advance. Instead, we need programs and policies that offer more of a hand, and for longer. Two, while there are many programs and policies aimed at aspects of ...
At first glance, foie gras and family leave insurance wouldn't seem to have much in common. But it turns out that both are areas where the New Jersey Restaurant Association takes pride in helping to stop legislative action. 'Among the hundreds of ...
At NJPP our work for 10 years has included many proposals for fixing New Jersey's finances. We called for increasing the state income tax on the wealthiest households and both raising and broadening the sales tax to reflect today's economy. To some ...
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