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Jun 16, 2023
PUBLIC FINANCE > Taxes
“The scope of the House bill is more responsive to the cost of competitive challenges,” Doug Howgate, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, told the Herald. “We’re still going to crunch the numbers, but the hope would be that the final...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Taxes
Jun 15, 2023
PUBLIC FINANCE > Taxes
Meanwhile, a May report from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation said the “red flags are waving”when it comes to housing, transportation and migration trends. The state lost 110,000 workers between April 2020 and July 2022, MTF said. That outflow...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Taxes
Jun 15, 2023
PUBLIC FINANCE > Taxes
Doug Howgate, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, praised the Senate’s plan for a “commitment to meaningful reform” but said the exclusion of capital gains tax cut, as well as a scaled back estate tax relief and limited child tax...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Taxes
May 30, 2023
ECONOMY
Massachusetts is hemorrhaging people. In fact, it’s seeing the highest outmigration numbers in the last 30 years, according to a new report from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. A net 110,000 people moved out of the Bay State over roughly the...
ECONOMY
May 24, 2023
ECONOMY
Driving the news: The report from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation found that a long-term decline in births and an aging population is also shrinking the Massachusetts workforce. Plus, remote workers don't want to live in such a high-cost...
ECONOMY
May 24, 2023
ECONOMY
The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation found that more than 110,900 people left the state between April 2020 and July 2022. And some of the trends pushing residents out of Massachusetts might sound all too familiar to those still here. “We’re...
ECONOMY
May 24, 2023
ECONOMY
2021 tax returns showed nearly 38,000 Massachusetts residents between the age of 26 and 35 moved out of the state in 2020. "You expect to see 26- to 35-year-olds move in and out a lot," said Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation President Doug...
ECONOMY
May 23, 2023
ECONOMY
Massachusetts had the lowest rental vacancy rate in the U.S. in 2022 and the second-highest median rents, Boston features the second-highest traffic delay times in the nation, and the state recently posted its highest outmigration numbers in 30 years...
ECONOMY
May 22, 2023
ECONOMY
But I like its latest report — a package of charts — because it highlights the full range of challenges facing the state. Here are some of the data points I found noteworthy. On housing costs: Massachusetts had the lowest apartment vacancy...
ECONOMY
May 06, 2023
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2023
Doug Howgate, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, said while April's revenue numbers are "jarring" they’re "not necessarily surprising given the recognition that capital gains and other collection types were likely to decline sharply...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2023