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- Kentucky State and Local Government
- Kentucky State Legislature
- Kentucky Department of Revenue
- Kentucky's Office of the State Budget Director
- Tax and Budget Initiative 2010 Bill Tracker (pdf)
National Resources
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - CBPP specializes in research and analysis oriented toward policy decisions at the state and federal levels that affect low- and moderate-income families, including fiscal policies, welfare issues, health policy, earned income tax credits, food assistance and the federal budget.
- Expanding Sales Taxation of Services: Options and Issues, July 2009 (pdf) - This report examines the sales tax structure in all fifty states and explains how states could improve their tax structure by expanding the tax base to include services.
- State-Level Data Show Recovery Act Protecting Millions From Poverty, December 2009 (pdf) - This report finds that along with boosting the economy and saving and creating jobs, seven provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) protected about 102,000 Kentuckians from poverty this year.
- Citizens for Tax Justice - CTJ is a public interest research and advocacy organization focusing on federal, state and local tax policies and their impact upon our nation.
- Economic Policy Institute - Economic Policy Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.
- Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy - ITEP is a
is a non-profit, non-partisan research and education organization that works on government taxation and spending policy issues.
- Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in all 50 States, November 2009 (pdf) - This report examines the fairness of each state’s tax system by looking at the amount of state and local taxes paid by different income groups in 2007.
- National Association of State Budget Officers - NASBO serves as the professional membership organization for state finance officers and provides the instrument through which the states advance budget practices by providing research, policy development, education, training, and technical assistance.
- National Conference of State Legislatures - NCSL is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states by providing research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues.
- State Fiscal Analysis Initiative - State Fiscal Analysis Initiative seeks to strengthen the contributions of state-level non-profit organizations to policy debates by enhancing their ability to provide reliable budget and tax analysis.
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