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GBPI president discusses 2024 legislative priorities, Governor Kemp’s budget proposal

/ by Lauren Frazier

Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) recently released its 2024 State Policy Priorities. Staci Fox, the president and CEO of GBPI, discussed it on Friday’s edition of “Closer Look.” Fox also gave an analysis of Governor Brian Kemp’s recent budget proposal. In his State of the State address, the Republican governor proposed spending “an additional $5 billion in the […]

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GBPI In The News Press

Latest push to expand Medicaid shows promise

/ by Lauren Frazier

Is 2024 the year Georgia will expand Medicaid to insure all its poor? Ever since the 2010 Affordable Care Act offered heavy subsidies to each state that expands Medicaid for the uninsured poor, Georgia’s Republican majority leadership has answered with a resounding “no.” They viewed the offer as classic government overreach by Democrats, expensive and […]

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Kemp, Georgia lawmakers unveil plan to speed up income tax cut

/ by Lauren Frazier

Republican state leaders announced Monday that they plan to fast track a planned reduction of the state’s income tax rate. Lawmakers passed a plan last year to gradually phase in reductions to the state’s income tax rate over time if certain economic markers are met. But with the state sitting on a massive surplus, Gov. Brian Kemp […]

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Sine Die 2023 Recap

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Sine Die 2023 Recap

/ by David Schaefer | 1 Comment on Sine Die 2023 Recap

Legislative Session 2023 finished in the usual flurry of maneuvers and votes that lasted until the final minutes of Sine Die—the 40th and final day that the Georgia General Assembly meets each year.   Throughout Sine Die, GBPI remained focused on our key priorities. The team and many partners pressed forward policies that support rural families, […]

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Bill Analysis Budget and Taxes Daniel Kanso, PhD

New Tax Plan Risks State’s Long-Term Fiscal Health, Worsens Income and Racial Inequities

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

    House Bill 1437, signed into law by Gov. Kemp after a final version emerged during the last hours of Sine Die 2022, sets Georgia on course to make fundamental changes to its income tax that primarily benefit the state’s highest earners at an annual cost greater than $2 billion when fully implemented.[1],[2] Beyond […]

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Sine Die 2022: Improvements to Health and Education Affordability Are Coming, But Risky Tax Legislation Passes, too

/ by Caitlin Highland

This year’s Legislative Session finished in a flurry of last-minute votes that extended late into the night on Sine Die, the last day the General Assembly meets each year. GBPI remained focused on our key priorities, fighting against policies that would create or reinforce barriers keeping people of color, rural Georgians and families with low […]

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General Assembly Considers Rewrite of State Income Tax Code, House-Passed Bill Primarily Benefits Wealthiest

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General Assembly Considers Rewrite of State Income Tax Code, House-Passed Bill Primarily Benefits Wealthiest

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

Key Takeaways Members of the House and Senate are debating a series of major changes to Georgia’s personal income tax in HB 1437. Proposals to shift Georgia’s current graduated income tax, where rates increase from 1 to 5.75 percent as income increases, to a flat tax carry high costs to the state and would primarily […]

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Letter Asking Lawmakers to Reject Risky Flat Tax

Blog Budget and Taxes Daniel Kanso, PhD

Letter Asking Lawmakers to Reject Risky Flat Tax

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

At a time when leading Georgia lawmakers have the option to better fund core services that promote economic opportunity or enact broadly popular tax cuts for low- and middle-income Georgians, the General Assembly is instead advancing legislation (House Bill 1437) that would primarily cut taxes for the wealthy. We ask lawmakers to reject a flat […]

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House Proposes Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthiest, Slashing State Revenues | Bill Analysis: House Bill 1437 (LC 43 2318S)

Bill Analysis Budget and Taxes Daniel Kanso, PhD

House Proposes Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthiest, Slashing State Revenues | Bill Analysis: House Bill 1437 (LC 43 2318S)

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

    Members of the Georgia General Assembly are considering House Bill 1437 (LC 43 2318S), legislation that would fundamentally change the structure of the tax code and result in disproportionately large tax cuts for the wealthiest while hundreds of thousands of families would see tax increases or few benefits. This is due to the […]

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Georgia Won’t Thrive if People Don’t Survive

/ by Taifa Smith Butler

Key Takeaways: Years of disinvestment, poor public health infrastructure and systemic barriers have exposed Georgians’ vulnerability—particularly for those with low incomes and for communities of color—to this health and economic crisis. State, local and federal governments have enacted solutions to help mitigate these effects, but these changes may not be enough to truly support the […]

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