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ITEP Work in Action March 24, 2015 Public Assets Institute: Vermont Has the Capacity to Avoid 2016 Budget Cuts
Vermont’s income tax is among the lowest in the country: 2.7 percent of the state’s total personal income. Eliminating tax breaks and lowering income tax rates would balance the fiscal… -
brief March 23, 2015 State Tax Preferences for Elderly Taxpayers
State governments provide a wide array of tax breaks for their elderly residents. Almost every state that levies an income tax now allows some form of income tax exemption or credit for citizens over age 65 that is unavailable to non-elderly taxpayers. And most states provide special property tax breaks to the elderly. Unfortunately, too many of these breaks are poorly-targeted, unsustainable, and unfair. This policy brief surveys federal and state approaches to reducing taxes for older adults and suggests options for designing less costly and better targeted tax breaks for elderly taxpayers.
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ITEP Work in Action March 18, 2015 Connecticut Voices for Children: Funding Our Future: Child and Family Friendly Revenue Options
An analysis by the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) of Washington, D.C. found that adjusting top rates to the levels in the table below would impact only two… -
ITEP Work in Action March 18, 2015 The Economic Progress Institute: Making Work Pay for Working Families: Increasing the State’s Earned Income Tax Credit
Workers who receive the EITC pay federal payroll taxes, sales and property taxes, and more. In fact, Rhode Island has the 5th highest taxes on low-income households in the nation.… -
ITEP Work in Action March 16, 2015 Public Assets Institute: How to Close the Budget Gap–Fiscal 2016 and Beyond
“Vermont is one of six states in the country that uses federal taxable income rather than adjusted gross income as the base for the state income tax. Because this base… -
ITEP Work in Action March 16, 2015 Open Sky Policy Institute: Frequently asked questions about LB 280′s impact on taxpayers
“All Nebraskans would experience lower property taxes under this proposal, and many residents would pay less in taxes overall. LB 280 makes our tax code more progressive, ensuring that low-… -
ITEP Work in Action March 13, 2015 Minnesota Department of Revenue: 2015 Minnesota Tax Incidence Study
“Given the questions raised about how Minnesota compares to other states, this section summarizes the results of a 50-state study of state and local tax incidence. That study, entitled Who… -
ITEP Work in Action March 12, 2015 Policy Matters Ohio: Kasich tax plan bad for Ohio, Policy Matters tells lawmakers
“An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit research group in Washington, D.C., found the bottom three-fifths of Ohioans would pay more as a group under… -
ITEP Work in Action March 12, 2015 California Budget Project: How a State EITC Could Reduce Economic Hardship in California
“A state EITC would allow low- and middle-income working families to keep more of their earnings and help rebalance California’s system of state and local taxes, which currently asks low-income… -
ITEP Work in Action March 12, 2015 Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy: Tax Fairness: An Answer to Florida’s Budget Problems
“The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy ranks Florida as having the second most unfair (or “regressive”) tax system in the nation. High‐income residents pay a far smaller share of… -
ITEP Work in Action March 12, 2015 Maryland Center on Economic Policy: Corporate Tax Cut Would Harm Maryland’s Economic Growth
“Reducing the corporate income tax in Maryland would also worsen he situation under which a small share of the state’s households have seen big gains in income over recent years… -
ITEP Work in Action March 12, 2015 Oklahoma Policy Institute: This nonsensical ‘double dipping’ tax break is costing Oklahoma millions
“Disallowing just the deduction for state income tax would yield the state $97 million, according to an analysis by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy. Only one in four… -
ITEP Work in Action March 10, 2015 Michigan League for Public Policy: Road funding ballot proposal: a win-win for everyone
According to a new report from the Michigan League for Public Policy, an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy shows that even after the sales tax increase,… -
ITEP Work in Action March 6, 2015 Iowa Fiscal Partnership: Balanced approach on gas tax
Raising Iowa’s tax on gasoline and diesel fuel by 10 cents per gallon would go a long way toward financing needed street and highway repairs and improvements. Critical needs most… -
ITEP Work in Action March 6, 2015 Children’s Action Alliance: HB 2069 – S/E Online TPT/Income Tax Reduction Fact Sheet
HB 2069 shifts taxes from the wealthiest Arizonans to low and middle income taxpayers, attempts to limit options available to future legislatures, and depends on a “best guess” to make… -
ITEP Work in Action March 6, 2015 Fiscal Policy Institute: Policy Brief: Property Tax Relief (Circuit Breaker)
Those at the bottom of the income scale [in New York] would benefit most—62 percent of homeowners and 37 percent of renters with incomes below $19,000 would receive a circuit… -
ITEP Work in Action March 6, 2015 Mississippi Economic Policy Center: House and Senate Tax Plans Do Little for Struggling Working Families
The personal income tax cuts from both the [state] House and Senate plans benefit wealthier families more than lower and middle-income earners. Further, the high cost of these plans may… -
ITEP Work in Action March 3, 2015 Michigan League for Public Policy: A Solution at Last to Michigan’s Crumbling Roads
Analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy shows that the sales tax increase and the increase of the EITC will help low-income working people. After all of the… -
ITEP Work in Action March 3, 2015 Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center: Better Choices Coalition Releases 19 Ideas to Make Pa.’s Tax System Fairer
“A recent study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy named Pennsylvania the sixth most unfair state and local tax system for low- to moderate-income families. The recommendations we… -
ITEP Work in Action February 23, 2015 Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy: Complex Tax Proposal Would Have Uneven Impacts on Idahoans
A new proposal in the Idaho Legislature would dramatically shift the way taxes are collected and generate a new revenue source for our neglected roads and bridges. The proposal has… -
ITEP Work in Action February 19, 2015 Open Sky Policy Institute: LB 357 would lead to budget cuts, benefits top earners
LB 357 calls for significant reductions in personal and corporate income tax rates over several years. It also transfers $160 million out of the cash reserve, $80 million to the… -
report February 16, 2015 Most Americans Live in States with Variable-Rate Gas Taxes
The federal government and many states are seeing shortfalls in their transportation budgets in part because the gasoline taxes they use to generate those funds are poorly designed. Thirty-one states and the federal government levy “fixed-rate” gas taxes where the tax rate does not change even as the cost of infrastructure materials inevitably increases over time. The federal government’s 18.4 cent gas tax, for example, has not increased in over 22 years. And twenty states have gone a decade or more without a gas tax increase.
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ITEP Work in Action February 10, 2015 Policy Matters Ohio: Kasich tax proposal would skew tax system further in favor of Ohio’s affluent
The Kasich administration proposal to cut income taxes and expand sales and other taxes would produce big tax cuts for Ohio’s most affluent residents, while increasing taxes on lower- and… -
report February 10, 2015 How Long Has it Been Since Your State Raised Its Gas Tax?
An updated version of this report has been published with data through July 1, 2017. Read the report in PDF form. Many states’ transportation budgets are in disarray, in part… -
ITEP Work in Action February 9, 2015 Connecticut Voices for Children: Families First, Prosperity for All: Making Connecticut’s Tax and Benefit System More Family-Friendly
Connecticut’s tax system is uniquely unfriendly to families. Connecticut is one of only two states with an income tax that does not offer tax credits or exemptions to adjust for…