By:
Mark Lash
November 18, 2013 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Mark Lash is a retired federal employee who follows Oklahoma policymaking, tries to understand it, and sometime even writes about it. See Mark’s previous post about the Quality Jobs Program here.
Oklahoma’s Quality Jobs Program began in 1993 and has…
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By:
David Blatt
October 24, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
There was very little good news in last week’s state revenue announcement as collections fell below both the prior year and this year’s estimates for both the month and the completed first quarter of FY 2014. This sluggish performance could…
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By:
Mark Lash
October 21, 2013 // Updated: January 19, 2019
Mark Lash is a retired federal employee who follows Oklahoma policymaking, tries to understand it, and sometime even writes about it.
Oklahoma’s Quality Jobs Program began in 1993. In fiscal year 2013, it paid incentives of $78.9 million to Oklahoma…
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By:
Gene Perry
October 17, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Blog Posts and Fact Sheets
OK Policy Blog Post: Moving new employees into 401(k)s would endanger existing pensions, increase costs to taxpayers (February 2014)
OK Policy Blog Post: The pension crisis is over (Oct. 2013)
Fact Sheet: Oklahoma Teachers Retirement…
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By:
David Blatt
October 10, 2013 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Oklahoma’s seven public pension systems have a combined unfunded liability of $11.6 billion as of June 30, 2012. This large number alone is often put forward to make the case for doing away with traditional defined benefit pensions for state…
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By:
Kate Richey
September 26, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
During the last presidential election, much was made of the fact that nearly half of Americans paid no federal income tax in 2010. But is it true? A new 4 minute illustrated video from The Urban Institute explains who doesn’t…
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By:
Guest
September 11, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Dr. Cynthia Rogers is Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Oklahoma, where she served as the Graduate Director from 2006-2013. This is an edited version of a brief originally published for the Scholars Strategy Network, of…
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By:
David Blatt
September 4, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
State Question 766, which exempted businesses from paying taxes on their intangible property, will reduce local tax revenues by an estimated $60.2 million in 2013, according to figures provided by the Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC). The biggest winners will be…
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By:
David Blatt
August 26, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Oklahoma's taxes on unconventional production of oil and gas, or horizontal drilling, are among the nation's lowest and would remain relatively low even if the state eliminated the tax breaks currently benefiting horizontal drilling.
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By:
Gene Perry
August 13, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This post originally ran on our blog this past January
Like most state tax systems, Oklahoma takes a much larger share from middle- and low-income families than from wealthy families, according to the fourth edition of “Who Pays? A Distributional…
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