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How Tax Modernization Committee options could impact ‘Real Taxpayers’

How Tax Modernization Committee options could impact ‘Real Taxpayers’

The infographic below is a wrap-up piece related to the “Real Taxpayers of Nebraska” scenarios we examined over the past several days.

Those scenarios include sales tax expansion, increasing state aid to K-12 education, enacting a property tax circuit breaker, bolstering the property tax credit and cutting the top income tax rate.

In addition to these scenarios, we have included in today’s graphic a section to show how exempting all Social Security income would affect our taxpayers. As you can see, such a measure would only benefit one of our taxpayer families.

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How Tax Modernization Committee options could impact ‘Real Taxpayers’

Find out how our “Real Taxpayers of Nebraska” would be affected by expanded sale taxes, increased state aid to K-12 schools, property tax circuit breakers, an increased property tax credit and cuts to the state's top income tax rate.