States’ taxes lean most heavily on poorer residents. These states are trying to change that.

The biggest proposed savings are in a bill from Gov. Josh Green that would boost all Hawaiʻi income tax bracket thresholds and increase the standard deduction along with the personal exemption.

Legislators must ensure that the relief package makes the most of state resources, finding the right balance of lower taxes and the services that Hawaiʻi’s people need most.

One of the clearest trends in state tax debates this year is the continuing momentum toward new and better tax credits for workers and families.

Lawmakers in seven states last month introduced legislation that aims, in some innovative ways, to raise taxes on their most fiscally favored.

Enhanced revenue should come from those who can afford to pay more including large corporations and out-of-state investors.

The new tax would apply to people with a net worth of more than $20 million.

A new bill in the state legislature is looking to tax these investments like regular working income.

Each state has its own approach for taxing the rich, but typically the strategies include taxing assets as well as lowering the threshold for estate taxes.

Supporters of taxes on the very rich contend that people are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with a bigger appetite for what they’re calling “tax justice.”