To: The Georgia State House and The Georgia State Senate
Georgia lawmakers: a tax shift to the middle class isn’t tax reform
Plans to shift from income taxes to sales taxes will put a bigger burden on middle- and low-income families. Don’t shift taxes from corporations and wealthy individuals to working families.
Why is this important?
Deeply slashing income taxes could become a priority during Georgia’s 2014 legislative session. State lawmakers have already introduced two proposals meant to accomplish that goal during the upcoming assembly and some state leaders speak approvingly of the idea.
A shift from income taxes to sales taxes would raise total state taxes for as many as four in five Georgia taxpayers. Conservative lawmakers are pushing for a plan that would do exactly that and are calling it ‘tax reform.’
North Carolina recently passed tax shift legislation and raised taxes on an estimated 80 percent of the state’s families.
This is just wrong. This tax shift proposal would hurt families, businesses, communities and the economy.