Monthly Archives: January 2003

New York State and Local Taxes in 2002

January 2003. From the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, this chart and table show the impact of state and local taxes (by type of tax, in total before taking federal deductibility into consideration, and in total after taking federal deductibility into consideration) on the family incomes of non-elderly New Yorkers broken down into seven income categories, ranging from the bottom 20% (taxpayers with incomes of less than $15,000) to the top 1% (taxpayers with incomes above $634,000). (PDF)

2024-12-18T12:30:31-05:00January 31st, 2003|Blog, Tax & Budget, Tax Policy|
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Employees as Regulators

January 23, 2003. Below, an op ed by FPI senior economist Moshe Adler, New York Times. At its first formal meeting, the new federal board overseeing the accounting profession proved George Stigler right. Mr. Stigler, who died in 1991, won a Nobel in economics for showing why regulated industries end up co-opting their regulators. At their meeting earlier this month, board members voted themselves annual salaries of $452,000 each, affirming that they are first and foremost interested in their own well-being. Perhaps we should dismantle [...]

2024-12-18T12:30:31-05:00January 27th, 2003|Letters|
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