Connect to NHFPI’s latest edition of New Hampshire Policy Points, which provides a data-driven snapshot of key issues facing Granite Staters, such as population and demographics, income and economic security, economy and jobs, housing, health, education, broadband internet, transportation, and how we fund public services.
New Hampshire’s revenue system is relatively unique in the United States, as it lacks broad-based income and sales taxes and instead relies on a diversity of more narrowly-based taxes, fees, and other revenue sources to fund public services. This system presents both advantages and disadvantages to stable, adequate, and sustainable revenue generation. The New Hampshire ...
(NOTE: See NHFPI’s May 2017 publication, Revenue in Review: An Overview of New Hampshire’s Tax System and Major Revenue Sources, for updated information on New Hampshire’s revenue sources and recent trends.) Due in large measure to the recent national recession and the continuing struggle to recover from it, New Hampshire will face a budget shortfall on the ...