“It’s about three times as generous as what you’re gonna get from donating to a children’s hospital or a veteran’s group or any other cause,” says Carl Davis at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “It really preferences voucher groups over every other kind of charity.”
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media mention May 23, 2025 NPR: 9 Things to Know about the Big, Private-School Voucher Plan in Republicans’ Tax Bill
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ITEP Work in Action May 23, 2025 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: House Republican Tax Bill Is Skewed to Wealthy, Costs More Than Extending 2017 Tax Law, and Fails to Deliver for Families
The 2017 tax law imposed new immigration-related restrictions on the Child Tax Credit, requiring, for the first time that children have a Social Security number (SSN). This change denied the credit to up to 1 million children.
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media mention May 23, 2025 NBC News: Education Groups Alarmed Over Budget Bill’s Boost for Private Schools
“The result would be a profitable tax shelter for wealthy people who agree to help funnel public funds into private schools,” Amy Hanauer, the institute’s executive director, said in the webinar. “That is to say they would get more money by donating their stock than by selling it.”
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media mention May 23, 2025 Axios: Child Tax Benefit Increase Leaves out Millions of Kids, Analysis Says
Under current law, families need upward of $30,000 a year to receive the full tax credit amount, explains Joe Hughes, senior analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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media mention May 23, 2025 The American Prospect: The Curious Case of the Republican Medicaid Turncoats
“It’s not surprising that this bill was written behind closed doors and rushed through in the night before Americans had a chance to see what it contains,” Amy Hanauer, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told the Prospect. “This bill extends enormous tax cuts to those who have the most. It will increase inequality, reduce health coverage, and take food from people’s tables, all to shower the wealthiest people in this country and foreign investors with tax breaks.”
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media mention May 23, 2025 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Jonathan D. Salant: What Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Will Mean to Pa. — and It’s Not Pretty
“This bill overall would cut all sorts of benefits for all sorts of Americans who rely on them, whether it’s health care or food assistance or energy credits,” said Jon Whiten, ITEP deputy director. “It’s all being done to find enough money to jam through all of these tax cuts which disproportionately would go to the wealthiest Americans. It’s a little bit like Robin Hood in reverse here.”
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ITEP Work in Action May 22, 2025 DC Fiscal Policy Institute: Raising Revenue Is An Urgent and Practical Approach to Reducing the Harm of DC’s Recession
If Congress extends the 2017 tax cuts as planned, by itself this would yield the top 5 percent of households in DC an average annual tax cut of up to $36,000, depending on how much the cap on deductions for state and local taxes (SALT) is loosened or if it is eliminated altogether (according to unpublished data analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy for DCFPI)
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ITEP Work in Action May 22, 2025 Washington State Budget & Policy Center: The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Mass Deportation: What’s at Risk in Washington State
In 2022, people who are undocumented paid nearly $1 billion ($997 million) in Washington state and local taxes.2 If 10% of people who are undocumented are deported, it would result in a loss of $100 million per year in state and local tax revenues.
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blog May 21, 2025 State Rundown 5/21: Big and Not-So Beautiful Tax Cut Bills Abound in States
As a sprawling, regressive tax bill continues to take shape at the federal level, many states are moving forward with major tax cut proposals of their own.
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ITEP Work in Action May 21, 2025 Media Matters for America: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Whips Republican Support for Devastating Medicaid Cuts
ITEP further explained how regressive the GOP tax bill is: “While working-class families (defined here loosely as the bottom 40 percent of earners) could expect an average tax cut of $361 in 2027, the nation’s highest-income families (defined as the top 0.1 percent) would receive an average tax cut of at least $255,670 in that year.”
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ITEP Work in Action May 21, 2025 New Jersey Policy Perspective: The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Mass Deportation: What’s at Risk in New Jersey
In 2022, people who are undocumented paid an estimated $1.3 billion in New Jersey state and local taxes.[3]
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ITEP Work in Action May 21, 2025 North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Mass Deportation: What’s At Risk in North Carolina.
In 2022, people who are undocumented paid $692 million in North Carolina state and local taxes.[ii] If ten percent of people who are undocumented are deported it would result in a loss of $69 million per year in state and local tax revenues.
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ITEP Work in Action May 20, 2025 Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Letter Re: IRS Commissioner Nominee Billy Long
I write to outline my concerns and provide you with a set of questions about them. I ask that you review my questions and come to your Senate Finance Committee hearing prepared to answer them in full. I also ask that you provide written answers prior to any committee vote on your nomination.
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ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2025 Freedom from Religion Foundation: FFRF Warns of Constitutional Threats in Congressional Reconciliation Bill
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is sounding the alarm on the deeply troubling federal reconciliation bill making its way through Congress that would funnel billions of public dollars into religious education, erode secular public institutions, and give unprecedented power to the executive branch to target tax-exempt nonprofits — potentially including FFRF itself.
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media mention May 16, 2025 Washington Post: House GOP Plan to Raise Child Tax Credit Adds Citizenship Provisions
“This is, by definition, all children who are legally supposed to be here in the country,” said Joe Hughes, an analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy who worked on the study
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blog May 15, 2025 House Tax Bill Would Encourage Dynastic Wealth Hoarding by Further Weakening the Estate Tax
The sprawling tax and spending bill before the House of Representatives would cut more than $200 billion from food assistance, potentially affecting 4 million children and 7 million adults, while providing an estate tax cut costing roughly the same amount to a few thousand people who will leave behind more than $7 million to their heirs.
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blog May 15, 2025 State Rundown 5/15: State Tax Debates Carry On in the Midst of Chaotic Federal Tax Landscape
Even as most major headlines have been about the ever-changing landscape of federal tax policy, the latest “ideas of the week,” and now the House tax bill, state tax policy continues to be a priority for lawmakers.
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media mention May 15, 2025 NPR: What to Know About a Federal Proposal to Help Families Pay of Private School
A first-of-its-kind effort to leverage federal tax dollars to help families pay for private school tuition anywhere in the U.S. is one step closer to becoming a reality.
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media mention May 13, 2025 The Hill: House Panel Releases Sweeping GOP Tax Bill
“So far this costly bill appears to double down on trickle down, with huge tax cuts that will further enrich the rich and not much for the rest of us,” Amy Hanauer, director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said in a statement in response to Friday’s version of the bill.
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media mention May 13, 2025 Marketwatch: Under New GOP Bill, Multimillionaires Could Dodge the 39.6% Tax Rate Floated by Trump
A higher tax rate on multimillionaires would have been eye-catching, but its revenue would have been less so, by some estimates. Approximately 85% of the income from super-rich households with at least $10 million would have been insulated from a higher rate, according to an analysis from the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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media mention May 13, 2025 Sacramento Bee: Child Tax Credits: California’s Winners and Losers in New GOP Congressional Plan
But there’s also a sobering feature: The parents of an estimated 910,000 California children would lose the credit because their child has at least one undocumented immigrant parent without a Social Security number, according to an analysis by several research groups including Washington’s Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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media mention May 12, 2025 Axios: Who Benefits from Tax Legislation So Far
“So far this costly bill appears to double down on trickle down, with huge tax cuts that will further enrich the rich and not much for the rest of us,” Amy Hanauer, the executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said in a statement over the weekend.
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ITEP Work in Action May 9, 2025 Invest in Louisiana: The Many Benefits of Working Family Tax Credits
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s Neva Butkus explains how state-level EITCs supports families and workers by offsetting regressive state tax systems:
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ITEP Work in Action May 8, 2025 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Broad Property Tax Cuts Won’t Provide Relief to Those Most Impacted by High Housing Costs: Renters With Low Incomes
State and local policymakers have an important role to play in increasing housing affordability by advancing policies that address the root cause of the housing crisis: bringing down the costs of housing and increasing people’s incomes to help them afford it. Investment in rental assistance is a key solution.
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brief May 7, 2025 What Corporations Have to Gain from the Gutting of the IRS
Seven huge corporations recently announced that in 2024 they were allowed to collectively keep $1.4 billion in tax breaks from previous years that they had publicly admitted would likely be found illegal if investigated – all because the tax authorities were unable to identify and disallow them before the statute of limitations ran out.