Fiscal Fitness

Fiscal Fitness is the MCFE blog.  Check here regularly as we highlight national policy development and new research relevant to ongoing state tax and fiscal policy debates, provide our take on reports and studies released by agencies and other organizations, react to articles and editorials -- in short offer our thoughts and perspective on anything that captures our interest (or gets our dander up).

April 12, 2013

New MCFE Issue Brief: "Minnesota's Troubled Price of Government"

Since the early 1990’s, the Minnesota Price of Government (POG) has been calculated to measure and track state and local government’s claim on Minnesota income.  However, since its inception, the composition of Minnesota Personal Income – a foundation of the price of government calculation – has…

March 27, 2013

MCFE Releases 2013 Edition of its National Individual Income Tax Comparison Study

MCFE has updated its biennial study of individual income taxation across the United States in its 2013 edition of Comparison of Individual Income Tax Burdens by State.  The report calculates income tax burdens of taxpayers in the 41 states that have an individual income tax and the District of…