The Tax Foundation

June 27, 2005

Boston Globe -- 'State seeing end to fiscal downturn'

"In previous downturns in the 1970s and the early 1990s, Massachusetts immediately hiked the rate on its income tax to recoup lost tax receipts. This time around, the state cut income taxes, a course approved by voters in a November 2000 referendum. According to the Tax Foundation, a Washington think tank, the tax burden in Massachusetts is lower today than it was in 2001."

More >>