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Critics claim that benefits from North Carolina’s income tax cuts of the past decade have been concentrated largely at the top of the income brackets. The data, however, show that…
Last Friday, January 24, the Triangle Business Journal published an article on North Carolina’s gas tax that featured JLF’s Joe Coletti. The piece, written by senior staff writer Lauren Ohnesorge,…
John Hood writes for Carolina Journal’s Daily Journal: Wealthy North Carolinians pay a higher share of their incomes in taxes than do middle-income North Carolinians, who in turn have a…
It’s not big news because it’s a renewable energy corporation. Still, what National Review reports here is disturbing: NextEra Energy, which bills itself on its website as “the world’s largest generator…
John Hood methodically refutes the false Leftist narrative about North Carolina’s historic tax reform. Now that it’s tax filing time, you will be hearing the Left make this claim again…
JLF board chair John Hood has a different take on the recently released Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy study: Editorial skepticism would have served North Carolina print and broadcast…
If we learned one thing during this short session, it’s that loopholes and special tax treatments are not going away quietly. Take the film flam film credit. Please. And…
Did the N.C. General Assembly’s 2013 tax reform package raise taxes on 80% of North Carolinians? In a television ad attacking U.S. Senate candidate and N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis,…
If you remember Barry Smith’s Carolina Journal Online article on a proposal to institute a new state fee for drivers of electric and hybrid vehicles, you might be interested to…
RALEIGH — There’s no reason to believe a new report’s claim that North Carolina’s tax system takes a “much larger share” from middle- and low-income families than from families with…