By:
Dave Hamby
February 3, 2025 // Updated: February 3, 2025

During today’s State of the State address, the governor is expected to renew his call for cutting taxes in Oklahoma. The "path to zero" is a dangerous road.
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By:
Dave Hamby
January 29, 2025 // Updated: January 29, 2025

Gov. Stitt has called for cutting then eliminating the state's personal income tax. Here is an estimate of how it would impact Oklahomans and what it would cost.
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Oklahoma’s tax system is upside-down, with everyday Oklahomans paying a far greater share of their income in taxes than wealthy residents. Proposals to eliminate the state’s income tax would widen this disparity, according to the latest edition of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s Who Pays?, the only distributional analysis of tax systems in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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By:
Emma Morris
September 14, 2023 // Updated: September 28, 2023

NOTE: On Sept. 11, 2023, Gov. Stitt called for a special session in October 2023 to address tax reforms. One of the items included in the governor’s request was a “path to zero income tax.”
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By:
Emma Morris
March 30, 2023 // Updated: January 25, 2024

Call to Action
Contact your lawmakers to urge them to oppose across-the-board, untargeted tax cuts and other handouts for wealthy Oklahomans and out-of-state companies.
• Contact your lawmaker
• Current Tax Cut Proposals Don’t Help Most Oklahomans [Printable PDF]
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By:
Emma Morris
February 6, 2023 // Updated: February 6, 2023

As Oklahoma’s 2023 legislative session begins, the perennial push for tax cuts that would shrink state revenue will likely return. In 2022, leaders of the Oklahoma House of Representatives championed tax cuts – primarily focusing on reducing the personal income…
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By:
Emma Morris
April 20, 2022 // Updated: May 27, 2022

Cuts to the individual income tax rate are unfair to low- and middle-class families since they return the largest benefit to the wealthiest Oklahomans. Tax cuts now can devastate state revenue and funding for services like public education in future years.
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By:
Emma Morris
April 11, 2022 // Updated: April 11, 2022

Oklahoma is in a unique position this year to make a downpayment on the future of our state. Premature tax cuts will set the state up to fail; investments will allow us to thrive.
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By:
David Blatt
February 12, 2019 // Updated: May 2, 2019

Some of the fiercest battles of recent legislative sessions have centered on tax policy as lawmakers debated competing tax proposals to limit funding cuts and provide teachers a raise. This year, thanks to a strong economy and recent tax increases, the state's budget outlook is greatly improved. Yet even if the stakes are lower, lawmakers still filed hundreds of bills this session that would revise Oklahoma's tax system.
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Download this fact sheet as a printable pdf here.
Read about the rest of OK Policy’s 2019 Legislative Policy Priorities here.
In March 1992, Oklahoma voters approved State Question 640, establishing the requirement that any bill to raise revenue must…
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