Promoting Long-Term Investment in Appalachian Kentucky: A Permanent Coal Severance Tax Fund
Forecasts predict dramatic declines in eastern Kentucky coal production in future years, heightening the need for a strategy to transition...
Budget & Tax
Blue Ribbon Commission on Tax Reform Launches Website
The Blue Ribbon Commission on Tax Reform launched a website this week to provide information about the commission process and ways for everyday Kentuckians to get involved. The commission has...
Tax Expenditures Big Cause of Budget Problems, but Some Legislators Want More
There are three main reasons that the budget the legislature is now considering includes so many cuts. First, the economy is still struggling. Second, federal recovery-related financial assistance to the...
Tax Expenditures Big Cause of Budget Problems, but Some Legislators Want More
There are three main reasons that the budget the legislature is now considering includes so many cuts. First, the economy is still struggling. Second, federal recovery-related financial assistance to the...
Budget Would Further Reduce College Affordability
The barriers to affordable higher education--especially for low-income Kentuckians--will continue to grow under a budget that cuts funding to postsecondary institutions and limits need-based financial aid. Budget Would Further Reduce...
Inadequate Tax System Has Big Role in Austere Budget
While the still-weak economy and the end of federal recovery-related assistance are important factors in the tight budget now being considered in Frankfort, long-term structural problems with Kentucky’s tax system...
Governor’s Budget Proposes Deep Cuts on Top of Past Reductions
The Governor’s budget proposes cuts of up to 8.4 percent to many state services that have already been slashed deeply over the last few years. The cuts would leave even...
Letter: What a Tax Reform Plan Should Include
Governor Beshear has said that he will announce plans for addressing tax reform in the coming weeks. Here's what should be in a tax plan that would move Kentucky forward....
Kentucky Faces Serious Challenges with Next Budget
Lawmakers face a grim financial situation when they meet in January to craft a new budget for 2013 and 2014. The state has balanced past budgets in part by pushing...
Principles Critical to Effective Tax Reform
In his inaugural address, Gov. Steve Beshear called on the state to build a "foundation for a better tomorrow" by restructuring Kentucky's tax system in his second term. His call...