The Legislature should take the time to get this right. The proposed bailout rewards the Turnpike's abysmal record while shifting the risks to the taxpayer. Bailing out the Turnpike with no accompanying reforms, no transparency, and no comprehensive...

The FixOurT Coalition supports the MBTA efforts to explore privatization of bus maintenance as a means to improve service and reduce a major cost component of its purchases. ...

On behalf of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, I am writing in support of House Bill 3639, An Act to clarify the net-worth measure of the corporate excise. ...

In the attached table, the Foundation summarizes and contrasts the 2013 final budget passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor with spending for fiscal years 2008 through 2012. ...

Today, the Legislature voted to enact a $40.2 billion budget for FY 2018. This year’s budget reconciliation process was hampered by several major challenges – most notably the need to reduce expected tax revenues from the amount used in both the...

The undersigned employer groups, representing businesses from all sectors, of all sizes and from all parts of the Commonwealth oppose the final budget plan calling for a new health assessment on employers without significant reforms to manage the...

A letter from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Massachusetts Business Roundtable urging the Governor to veto the elimination of the FAS 109 Deduction. ...

This report, which launched a major effort by MTF to highlight the competitive cost disadvantage faced by Massachusetts businesses, has helped spearhead a number of positive reforms to reduce business costs and taxes in the Commonwealth. The survey...

In a new analysis, the Foundation credits the state's leaders for their efforts to address the Commonwealth's fiscal crisis through a realistic combination of spending cuts and tax increases in 2003. However, MTF warns that a remaining large...

The Foundation's newly released analysis of the $23.1 billion state budget notes the great strides that the Commonwealth has made in closing a potential shortfall of $2.5 billion, but also underscores the failure to eliminate fully the structural gap...