Burling Commission report/Syracuse Study MP3s
Listen to MP3s of audio transcriptions of the 2007 Burling Commission report and the first several chapters of the 1987 Syracuse Study below.
We will upload more chapters of the Syracuse Study as we get them transcribed.
Both tax study reports will be referenced by the Tax Modernization Committee that will examine the state’s tax code this interim.
Burling Commission Report
- Introduction and section 1: Summary of Commission Findings and Recommendations | PDF version
- Section 2: Demographic and Geographic Information
- Section 3: The Overall Nebraska Tax System
- Section 4: The Nebraska Property Tax
- Section 5: The Nebraska Sales Tax
- Section 6: The Nebraska Corporate Income Tax
- Section 7: The Nebraska Individual Income Tax
- Section 8: Nebraska State Tax Administration
- Five steps toward a better tax reform debate | PDF version
Syracuse Study (Some chapters were split based on length of the recording.)
- Chapter 1: Comparative Analysis | PDF version
- Chapter 2: Alternative Fiscal Projections | PDF version
- Chapter 3: Sales and Use Taxes | PDF version
- Chapter 3a
- Chapter 3b
- Chapter 3c
- Chapter 3d
- Chapter 4: Income Tax Incidence | PDF version
- Appendix: 4b,c and d
- Chapter 5: Corporate Income Tax | PDF version
- Chapter 5a
- Chapter 6: Property Tax | PDF version
- Chapter 7: Distribution of Tax Burdens | PDF version
- Chapter 8: Tax Expenditures | PDF version
- Chapter 9: Fiscal Conditions of Counties | PDF version
- Chapter 9a
- Chapter 10: Fiscal Conditions of Cities | PDF version
- Chapter 10a
- Chapter 11: Fiscal Conditions of Schools | PDF version
- Chapter 11a
- Chapter 12: Tax and Expenditure Limitations | PDF version
- Chapter 13: Economic Development | PDF version
- Chapter 13 a
- Chapter 14: Sales and Use Tax Operations | PDF version
- Chapter 15: Tax Exemptions of Municipal Debt Interest | PDF version
- Chapter 16: Who Benefits from Public Spending | PDF version