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Senate Finance examines income-tax structure and trade-offs for replacing property tax revenue
Summary
Fiscal staff briefed the committee on Vermont’s income-tax mechanics, bracket structure and the scale implications of replacing homestead property-tax revenue with income-tax changes; members discussed volatility, revenue concentration among high earners, and behavioral risks.
The committee received a fiscal briefing on state income taxes, comparing the scale of personal income tax receipts and homestead property-tax revenue and flagging the practical challenges of using income-tax changes to replace property-tax levies.
Fiscal staff reported a projected net homestead education-property revenue of about $720 million for FY27 and noted that personal income tax receipts are roughly $1.4 billion under the consensus…
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