11 Beginning this weekend, 11 state senators will hold town hall meetings in Omaha and Lincoln to hear feedback from the community on the Governor’s recently-released Nebraska Plan and any other [...]
Governor Jim Pillen has announced his intention to call the Legislature into special session starting July 25, with the goal of lowering property taxes in Nebraska. While a specific call has not [...]
33% In a world without racial inequality, 20% of each race or ethnicity would be represented in each quintile of income earners. But 33% of Black households fall in the bottom 20% [...]
Most Nebraskans who claim the state income tax credit on property taxes paid to public schools will see little change in what they pay resulting from the tax package to be debated [...]
Today is Tax Day, the day when your income taxes are due. But today is also a reminder that those taxes pay for so many of the things that make our communities [...]
$363 million Assuming all remaining bills are passed on final reading and no vetoes, the state is projected to end FY 25 with $363 million in general funds above the state’s minimum [...]
An amendment to LB 388 (AM 3419) is scheduled to be debated on select file on Wednesday, Day 58 of the 60-day session. Here’s a few things to know about the evolving [...]
As the Legislature’s Revenue Committee weighs proposals as part of the Governor’s plan to reduce property taxes collected by political subdivisions, join OpenSky for our next legislative webinar on Wednesday, March 6. [...]
https://youtu.be/753ea9Qld3g With policymakers in Nebraska considering a significant shift from property taxes to sales taxes, two tax policy experts shared insights on the concept of “ability to pay” and discussed the [...]
With voters set to weigh in this November on legislation creating tax credits for donations to private school scholarships, new proposals in the Legislature seek to further divert public funds to private [...]