A local advocacy group called attention this week to a report from a D.C. taxation watchdog organization showing a “growing inequality in Nebraska’s tax system.”
The “Who Pays?” report comes from ITEP, which describes itself as a nonprofit, nonpartisan tax policy organization.
“Over the past four decades, income and wealth have become increasingly concentrated among the most affluent households, with immense disparities across race and ethnicity as well,” the report introduction states.
The ITEP report ranked Nebraska 30th in the nation for tax inequality and lists the state among the “more regressive” in the nation — alongside Iowa (ranked 23rd), Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia — citing priority tax cuts for “more affluent households and corporations.”