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Audio: ITEP’s Spandan Marasini on Corporate Tax Avoidance and What To Do About It

October 16, 2025

ITEP Data Analyst Spandan Marasini appeared on the Oregon Center for Public Policy’s “Policy for the People” podcast, discussing how corporations hide their profits and insights on what can be done to stop it. Listen here.

Los Angeles Times: Corporate Tax Breaks Are Exploding the Federal Deficit, but Who Gets the Benefits?

October 15, 2025

The question is who stands to gain most from the tax policymaking in Washington — corporations, their shareholders and their executives, most of whom don’t have to worry about whether cutting off Obamacare subsidies will leave them unable to afford healthcare, or the millions of Americans for whom the subsidies can often spell the difference […]

The New Republic: The House Republicans Getting Rich Off Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

October 14, 2025

Why is it taboo for Congress to give itself a tiny raise but fine for it to give itself a huge tax cut? Read more.

JAMA Research Letter: Emergency Medicaid Spending for Undocumented Immigrants in the US

October 9, 2025

Proponents of the Budget Reconciliation Law of 2025 state that its trillion-dollar cuts to Medicaid will only affect care for groups whom they argue should not be receiving it, such as undocumented immigrants. Federal law, however, already prohibits undocumented immigrants from qualifying for comprehensive Medicaid, Medicare, and Marketplace options under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). […]

Newsweek: White House Press Secretary Sparks Debate Over Immigrant Health Care Costs

October 9, 2025

Data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy shows undocumented immigrants paid over $96 billion in U.S. taxes in 2022—far exceeding the cost of emergency care they receive. Analysts say the broader health care debate should focus on policy changes that could raise costs for millions of insured Americans. Read more. (To find this […]

Florida Policy Institute: Challenges Ahead: What Census Data Reveals about the Wealth Gap and Uninsured Rate as Florida Braces for H.R. 1

October 9, 2025

The Census Bureau’s data provides a baseline for understanding the realities Floridians face. These reports show that while taxes and transfers play a measurable role in reducing inequality and limiting hardship, gains remain uneven — particularly for children. The passage of H.R. 1 threatens to widen these gaps by locking in benefits for the wealthiest […]

Axios Detroit: Experts Offer Insight on Tackling Local Poverty

October 7, 2025

Poverty is a critical and complex issue here. While it’s crucial to draw on longtime local experts, it can also be worthwhile to cast a wider net and see what has worked elsewhere. Read more.

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Trump Tax Law Erases Economic, Racial Progress in the Tax Code

October 6, 2025 • By Brakeyshia Samms

Trump Tax Law Erases Economic, Racial Progress in the Tax Code

President Trump’s massive tax-and-spending bill continues the administration’s assault on racial and economic justice by prioritizing tax breaks for the top 1% while neglecting the economic well-being of poor and working families of all races, especially people of color.

San Francisco Chronicle: New SALT cap means savings for California homeowners. Here’s how much

October 6, 2025

Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said his organization’s analysis found less SALT savings for Californians than Redfin reported. He ran the new SALT rules through ITEP’s tax microsimulation model, which uses a database of taxpayer and census records to create a computer model of state […]

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Coca-Cola To Shareholders: $18 Billion Tax Bill? What $18 Billion Tax Bill?

October 1, 2025 • By Matthew Gardner

Coca-Cola To Shareholders: $18 Billion Tax Bill? What $18 Billion Tax Bill?

If Coca-Cola only pays 3% of the $18 billion tax bill it's facing, then the rest of us will have to pick up the remaining 97%. 

Governing: Free Child Care for All is Impossible? Don’t Tell New Mexico.

September 30, 2025

The only state with such a program didn’t get there overnight. Years of action at the state Capitol and the ballot box set the stage. It’s a lesson for lawmakers in other states facing the fiscal challenges of providing services families need amid diminishing federal aid. Read more.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Letter to Joint Committee on Taxation on Bonus Depreciation

September 29, 2025

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. In addition to ripping away health care coverage and food assistance from millions of Americans, this bill enacted numerous massive tax breaks for big corporations, including the permanent extension of 100% bonus depreciation. I write to seek more information […]