The teachers union’s proposed 77.8% marginal income tax increase will devastate small businesses, ruin Arizona’s reputation as business friendly, and knee-cap our struggling economy. Instead of helping Arizona small businesses as they tread water during a pandemic, Proposition 208’s Portland-based funders are throwing them an anvil.
10 August 2021
Arizona Tax Research Association
Contact: Sean McCarthy, 602-253-9121
ATRA is pleased with the Supreme Court’s ruling today on Proposition 208. We submitted an amicus brief to the court, urging them to find the expenditure limitation exemption unconstitutional. Prop 208 is statutory measure which attempts to circumvent spending limits in the Arizona Constitution. The aggregate expenditure limitation for K-12 schools cannot be amended with clever inventions such as disguising general taxes as private grants.
ATRA joins the chorus of Arizona business groups opposing the tax increases proposed in Congress' $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. Please see the attached letter to the Arizona Congressional delegation.
