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Fiscal Disparities Across States, FY 2002 (Policy Briefs/Tax Policy: Issues and Options)
Yesim Yilmaz, Sonya Hoo, Matthew Nagowski, Kim Rueben, Robert Tannenwald

States and their local governments vary both in their needs to provide basic public services, and in their abilities to raise revenues to pay for those services. This study summarizes the Representative Revenue System (RRS) and the Representative Expenditure System (RES) frameworks and quantifies these disparities across states by comparing each state's revenue capacity, revenue effort, and necessary expenditures to the average capacity, effort, and need in states across the country.

Posted to Web: January 02, 2007Publication Date: January 01, 2007

Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach Fiscal Year 2002 (Occasional Paper)
Yesim Yilmaz, Sonya Hoo, Matthew Nagowski, Kim Rueben, Robert Tannenwald

States and their local governments vary both in their needs to provide basic public services, and in their abilities to raise revenues to pay for those services. This study uses the Representative Revenue System (RRS) and the Representative Expenditure System (RES) frameworks to quantify these disparities across states by comparing each state's revenue capacity, revenue effort, and necessary expenditures to the average capacity, effort, and need in states across the country.

Posted to Web: November 29, 2006Publication Date: November 29, 2006

 

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