Voices for Utah Children Articles
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Invest in Utah's Future, Not Tax Cuts
BROAD COALITION CALLS FOR INVESTMENT IN UTAH’S FUTURE, NOT TAX CUTS, DOCUMENTS $5.2 BILLION IN URGENT UNMET NEEDS Salt Lake City – On Monday, November 8, 2021 on the steps of the Utah Capitol, a broad and diverse coalition of advocates for the poor,...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Legislative leaders have said that 2021 should be “the year of the tax cut.” Numerous public opinion surveys show that Utahns disagree. This may come as a surprise to policymakers, who have been in the habit of handing out tax break after tax break for...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Voices for Utah Children announces opposition to Constitutional Amendment G
(view this as a pdf here) The state's leading child research and advocacy organization Voices for Utah Children announced its opposition to Constitutional Amendment G in an online press conference today (Monday, October 5, 2020). Constitutional...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Utah Tax Incidence History: 1995 - 2018
Utah Tax Incidence History 1995 - 2018 Utah is in the midst of the most intense debate over taxes that our state has seen in many years. In December the Legislature passed a major tax restructuring package following a year of public hearings and...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Legislature Passes Tax Package Including Revenue Losses, Grocery Tax (and Credit), EITC
Last night, December 12, 2019, the Utah Legislature passed a tax restructuring package in a special legislative session. Voices for Utah Children was very involved in this process over the course of the year. We attended the Tax Restructuring and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
