BOSTON — Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation President Eileen McAnneny plans to step down from her post at the end of this year, she announced Wednesday. McAnneny in 2015 became the first woman to lead the business-backed organization. An influential...

Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation President Eileen McAnneny, one of the top advocates for businesses on Beacon Hill, plans to step down from the organization at the end of 2022. McAnneny has led the foundation since 2015, the first woman to do...

For those of you have been attending MTF Annual Meetings during my tenure, you know that I like to frame my remarks around a theme. I thought it would be fun to drive home key points using song titles, so here goes. This year, the theme is “looking...

Our organizations, representing thousands of employers and hundreds of thousands of employees in Massachusetts, write to urge you to adopt the tax changes included in H.4361, An Act to improve Massachusetts’ competitiveness and reduce the cost of...

Those investments have not been enough to keep up with the MBTA’s modernization needs, according to previous agency estimates. A September 2021 report from the business-backed Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation found the MBTA faces a $13 billion...

The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a nonpartisan watchdog group, endorsed Baker’s plan, calling it the right move to keep the commonwealth competitive. ...

The Senate begins its budget process today, with the release of the Senate Ways and Means proposal. The SWM budget follows a similar script to the House, foregoing a tax relief proposal put forward by Governor Baker and including hundreds of millions...

A new study by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation demonstrates how urgent the situation is. Before accounting for people who left the workforce during the pandemic, working families lose $1.7 billion in wages annually when they miss work or have...

Eileen McAnneny, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, said the increase in revenue is something she hasn’t seen in her lifetime. “It is incredible,” she said. McAnneny said inflation and labor shortages are pushing up wages and as...

The lack of child care options in Massachusetts is costing families, businesses and the state government more than $2.7 billion a year. That’s according to a report from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, which reports that working families...