NC Budget and Tax Center’s Sally Hodges Copple on the legislature’s worrisome tax triggers
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges of the state budget as North Carolina lawmakers return for the 2026 legislative session, focusing on tax triggers and income tax cuts.
  As state lawmakers return to Raleigh this week for their 2026 legislative short session, there’s one issue that looms as the most important and most challenging: the state budget. Thanks to a long series of personal and corporate income tax cuts (and more that are scheduled to take place), the state will soon face […]
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Guest: Sally Hodges Copple
Topics covered
- state budget
- tax policy
- legislative session
- income tax cuts
- North Carolina politics
Keywords
- North Carolina
- budget
- tax triggers
- legislature
- income tax cuts
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Places: Raleigh
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