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ITEP Work in Action June 14, 2013 North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: A Pathway to Poverty – 3 Reasons Why Tennessee is a Bad Role Model for North Carolina’s Economic Future
In the current debate over tax reform, legislative leaders frequently hold up Tennessee as a role model for improving North Carolina’s economic competitiveness and ensuring future prosperity. But a look… -
ITEP Work in Action June 14, 2013 North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: Key Concerns with House Bill 998
House Bill 998 proposes to cut tax rates with the goal of shifting to a consumption-based tax system. The legislation will result in a tax shift away from wealthy taxpayers… -
ITEP Work in Action June 14, 2013 North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: North Carolina’s Tax Shift Saga Continues
North Carolina’s House leadership has thrown its hat into the tax shift ring with a plan that would increase the tax load on middle- and low income tax-payers while providing… -
ITEP Work in Action June 14, 2013 North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: Analyzing the Impact of Tax Changes – Economic Incidence Analysis a more accurate measure of how taxpayers will fare
Policymakers need accurate information in order to make informed policy choices. And the general public, too, should know what is at stake when their elected officials propose tax changes. That… -
ITEP Work in Action June 14, 2013 North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: HB 998 is a tax shift: Millionaires will benefit while low-and middle income will pay
RALEIGH (June 7, 2013) — The House today gave tentative approval to a tax plan that will shift the tax load to low- and middle-income taxpayers, give the wealthiest taxpayers… -
ITEP Work in Action June 14, 2013 North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: House’s Flat Income Tax a Windfall for the Wealthy
The tax plan under consideration by the North Carolina House of Representatives would create a single income tax rate – known as a flat tax – that will shift taxes… -
ITEP Work in Action June 14, 2013 North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: Gambling Away Our Future
New Senate Tax Plan risks North Carolina’s long-term growth to give tax cuts to the wealthy and profitable corporations THIS WEEK THE SENATE INTRODUCED ANOTHER TAX PROPOSAL. The new proposal,… -
report June 12, 2013 Testimony: Evaluating the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Reforms in DC’s Bill 20-199
Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Matt Gardner. I am the Executive Director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a Washington-DC-based nonprofit research group. ITEP’s research focuses on federal and state tax policy with an emphasis on sustainability and fairness in the tax laws.
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report May 20, 2013 Don’t Blame the Gas Tax for High Gas Prices
American consumers are keenly aware of the price of gasoline, but uninformed about what drives that price. When asked about the federal gas tax, for example, six in ten Americans said the tax rate goes up every year. In reality, the federal gas tax hasn’t budged from its 18.4 cent rate in almost twenty years, and roughly half the states haven’t seen their gas tax rates change in a decade or more.
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ITEP Work in Action May 17, 2013 The Commonwealth Institute: What Would a Cut to the Top Individual Income Tax Rate Mean for Virginians?
A proposal to eliminate Virginia’s top individual income tax rate would overwhelmingly benefit the state’s wealthiest residents, who already spend far less of their household budgets on state and local… -
ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2013 Fiscal Policy Institute: New York State Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2013-2014
In addition to this Budget Overview section, this briefing also includes a section on the Economic Context for deliberations regarding the state’s 2013-2014 budget and a section on Tax Policy,… -
ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2013 Montana Budget & Policy Center: Capital Gains Tax Credit – Valuing Wealth Over Work in Montana
In 2003, the Montana Legislature passed a capital gains tax credit that benefits a very narrow portion of our population at the great expense of our collective ability to adequately… -
ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2013 Connecticut Voices for Children: Who Pays Taxes in Connecticut?
This brief finds that Connecticut’s wealthiest residents pay a smaller share of their income in state and local taxes than middle-income and low-income residents. Read the Full Report -
ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2013 Connecticut Voices for Children: Lower Than New York’s for Everyone but the Poor
One sometimes hears that recent state income tax increases on the rich could cause them to leave Connecticut for New York and points south. Academic research has shown that taxes… -
ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2013 Economic Progress Institute: It is time to turn up volume on silent spending
To ensure Rhode Island uses its available resources in the most effective way possible, it’s time to subject tax breaks, that cost the State over $1.7 billion a year, to… -
ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2013 Economic Progress Institute: Enhancing the Economic Security of Low-Income Working Rhode Islanders by Increasing the State’s Earned Income Tax Credit Refund
The Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) is widely recognized as an effective, short-term tool for lifting low-income working families out of poverty by encouraging work and supplementing low wages. Rhode… -
ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2013 Wisconsin Budget Project: “Middle Class Tax Cut” Will Mostly Wind up in the Pockets of the Highest Earners
Governor Walker has proposed an income tax cut that would benefit the highest earners the most, and would result in insignificant tax cuts for low-income Wisconsinites. Read the Full Report -
ITEP Work in Action May 2, 2013 Public Finance Review: Voter Ideology, Economic Factors, and State and Local Tax Progressivity
This study examines the relationship between voter ideology and the distribution of tax burdens across income groups using state and local data, aggregated at the state level, for 1995, 2002,… -
ITEP Work in Action May 2, 2013 The Nonprofit Quaterly: Nonprofits and State Tax Systems – The Big Picture
On Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill, charities have been involved in an all-consuming debate over the future of the federal charitable tax deduction. But can nonprofits effectively participate in the national… -
ITEP Work in Action April 30, 2013 Oregon Center for Public Policy: The Misguided “Small Business Tax Cut”
The desire to help small business owners is understandable, as they are an important component of our economy and communities. However, the granting of preferential tax treatment for people reporting… -
ITEP Work in Action April 26, 2013 Oklahoma Policy Institute: Speak out against irresponsible tax cuts
An income tax cut deal has been reached between Governor Fallin and Legislative leadership. The proposal is moving through the Legislature as HB 2032. This fact sheet explains what’s in… -
report April 26, 2013 5% Cut in Indiana’s Income Tax is Stacked in Favor of the Wealthy
Indiana Governor Mike Pence and the state’s legislative leaders recently announced a budget agreement that, among other things, phases the state’s flat personal income tax rate down from 3.4 percent to 3.23 percent by 2017.
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ITEP Work in Action April 22, 2013 Policy Matters Ohio: Income-tax cut would favor affluent Ohioans- Middle-income residents on average would get $51 a year
Since the 21-percent reduction in state income taxes approved in 2005, Ohio’s economy has underperformed the nation. There is little reason to believe that another round of income-tax cuts will… -
ITEP Work in Action April 19, 2013 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Strategies to Address the State Tax Volatility Problem
State revenues plummet in recessions, just when states can least afford the loss. Some proposals to address this flaw in state tax systems would change the systems’ structure — for… -
ITEP Work in Action April 16, 2013 Minnesota Budget Project: Tax Increases Don’t Prompt High-Income Households to Move Out of State
As Minnesotans debate an income tax increase on the highest-income households, they should do so knowing that a large and growing body of economic research makes it clear that such…