Backed by a broad coalition of business, civic, and education organizations, on April 26 the House took bold action to provide desperately needed fiscal relief to cities and towns by giving municipal leaders the same flexibility as the state to...

While tax expenditures are commonly thought of as tax breaks given to specific businesses or industries, they actually represent a much broader set of tax policies that benefit every resident of the state. Tax expenditures include all exemptions from...

Twenty prominent Massachusetts business organizations representing thousands of employers today announced an initiative to save $100 million in health care costs by reducing avoidable use of hospital emergency departments. The newly formed...

Late last week the Senate completed its FY 2017 budget process. During three days of debate, the Senate added $61.4 million in new spending and 181 new policy sections to the budget proposal submitted by the Senate Committee on Ways and Means (SWM)....

Statement of Michael J. Widmer President, Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation on House Health Care Finance Committee Legislation   Chairman Walsh has worked extremely hard over the past year to master the intricacies of the state’s health care...

State tax revenues likely to collapse an unprecedented $3.1 billion from fiscal 2008, according to a new revenue forecast released today by the Foundation. ...

This bulletin assesses the impact that recent tax collections may have on the state’s ability to end the year in balance and highlights some possible implications for FY 2017. ...

Eileen McAnneny, the President of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF), reacted today to the announcement of April tax revenue collections by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR). “Robust revenue collection is a good news story,”...