State Excise Taxation

Horse-and-Buggy Taxes in an Electronic Age

Originally published in The Tax Foundation

Selective excise taxes are already obsolete, but because government is always slow to change, they will die a slow death. In the meantime they will cause a great deal of harm, both to taxpayers and to the state governments who use them most.

Selective excise taxes are already obsolete, but because government is always slow to change, they will die a slow death. In the meantime they will cause a great deal of harm, both to taxpayers and to the state governments who use them most.

Read this article at The Tax Foundation.

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