Statement Opposing “Our Schools Now” Tax Increase
Salt Lake City, UT (June 6, 2017) — Today, a group calling themselves “Our Schools Now” announced the filing of a ballot initiative that, if successful, would increase the income and sales tax rates of hard-working...
Libertas Institute successfully obtains secret tax agreement between Tax Commission and Amazon
Salt Lake City, UT (April 14, 2017) — In a hearing last month, the Utah State Records Committee unanimously agreed with our appeal seeking the release of the secret agreement between the Utah State Tax Commission and Amazon,...
New Poll Shows Utahns Aren’t Sold on State Income Tax Increase for Public Education
Earlier today, the Trafalgar Group (TFG) released a public opinion survey commissioned by Libertas Institute and Americans for Prosperity. The survey showed that only 50% of likely voters support the proposed state income tax...
Income Tax Increase Won’t Improve Education Outcomes
The following op-ed, written by our president Connor Boyack, was published this past weekend in the Salt Lake Tribune. A group of business owners and former politicians have announced a plan to pursue a ballot initiative...
Why Utah Should Abandon the Work Requirement Waivers for Food Stamps
In his 2016 State of the State address, Governor Herbert has emphasized, “our state economy has added 219,000 new jobs, with an unemployment rate dropping from 8 percent down to 3½ percent today.” According to the U.S. Dept. of...
Taxing carried interest a bad idea for Utah’s Silicon Slopes
The following op-ed, co-authored by our policy analyst Josh Daniels, was published this week in the Deseret News. The only things certain in life are death and taxes. Rarely, however, do you find a tax plan bad enough to...