On this week's podcast, Tax Foundation Staff Economist Kail Padgitt, Ph.D., discusses the recently released State Business Tax Climate Index for 2011, with a focus on the states around the Great Lakes (Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio). The Index ranks the tax systems of the 50 states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst).

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On this week's podcast, Tax Foundation Staff Economist Kail Padgitt, Ph.D., discusses the recently released State Business Tax Climate Index for 2011, with a focus on the upper Midwest (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota). The Index ranks the tax systems of the 50 states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst).

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On this week's podcast, Tax Foundation Staff Economist Kail Padgitt, Ph.D., discusses the recently released State Business Tax Climate Index for 2011, with a focus on the upper Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma). The Index ranks the tax systems of the 50 states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst).

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On this week's podcast, Tax Foundation Staff Economist Kail Padgitt, Ph.D., discusses the recently released State Business Tax Climate Index for 2011, with a focus on the states of the Mountain West (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Montana). The Index ranks the tax systems of the 50 states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst).

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On this week's podcast, Tax Foundation Staff Economist Kail Padgitt, Ph.D., discusses the recently released State Business Tax Climate Index for 2011, with a focus on the states of the Pacific West (Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Alaska, and Hawaii). The Index ranks the tax systems of the 50 states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst).

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On this week's podcast, Tax Foundation Staff Economist Kail Padgitt, Ph.D., discusses the recently released State Business Tax Climate Index for 2011, with a focus on the states of New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhose Island). The Index ranks the tax systems of the 50 states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst).

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On this week's podcast, Tax Foundation Staff Economist Kail Padgitt, Ph.D., discusses the recently released State Business Tax Climate Index for 2011. The Index ranks the tax systems of the 50 states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst). South Dakota's tax system is the most welcoming to economic activity while New York's tax code ranks 50th as the least hospitable.

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On this week's podcast, Tax Foundation Staff Economist Kail Padgitt, Ph.D., discusses recently released Fiscal Facts on state tax policy: one examining combined state and average local sales tax rates; another on combined state, county and city sales tax rates among major metropolitan areas; a report analyzing state and local tax revenue sources; and finally, a...

Kristina Rasmussen, Executive Vice President of the Illinois Policy Institute, recently authored a report looking at the cost of higher state and federal income taxes for Illinois families in 2011. In this week's podcast, Rasmussen discusses how...

The Tax Foundation recently released a report outlining significant changes in state tax policy during 2010. Some states have enacted targeted tax increases or turned to the politically convenient option of one-time funds and accounting gimmicks to fill budget gaps. In this week's podcast, Tax Foundation Tax Counsel and Director of State Projects Joseph Henchman discusses the report and some upcoming changes for the rest of the year.

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