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  • media mention   April 7, 2025

    National Catholic Reporter: Editorial: Tax Battle a Referendum on Moral Clarity

    Let us be plain: What is being proposed is not tax reform. It is not aimed at fairness, economic stability or the public good. It is a redistribution of wealth — upward, deliberate and vast, from the poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich. And more than just poor policy, it is a profound moral failure. These proposals violate the very heart of Catholic social teaching.

  • media mention   April 7, 2025

    Missouri Independent: Missouri Lawmakers Set to Pass Capital Gains Tax Cut with Questions about Its Total Cost

    The bill nearing passage could reduce state revenues by $600 million or more, IRS data suggests, instead of the $111 million loss in official estimates Read more.
  • blog   April 3, 2025

    State Rundown 4/3: Amidst Tariff Uncertainty, State Lawmakers Talk Taxes

    While all eyes are on the Trump administration’s tariffs on foreign imports, state lawmakers are moving forward with a mix of deep, regressive tax cuts and progressive revenue raisers.

  • ITEP Work in Action   April 2, 2025

    Immigration Impact: Ahead of Tax Day, Fear of Filing Taxes Rises Among Undocumented Immigrants

    Tax Day is approaching, but the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts may make many undocumented immigrants hesitant to file taxes. Some worry that providing personal information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) could be used against them.

  • ITEP Work in Action   April 2, 2025

    Maine Center for Economic Policy: Expanding the Dependent Exemption Tax Credit is an Investment in Maine’s Future

    Maine’s Dependent Exemption Tax Credit (DETC) is a vital investment in the state’s future. As Maine’s version of the child tax credit, it helps families with children or dependent adults afford essentials like food, rent, and childcare, especially in rural areas.

  • media mention   March 28, 2025

    Clarion Ledger: Mississippi Governor Signs Income Tax Elimination Bill. How Are You Affected?

    With a stroke of a pen, and a few light-hearted jokes, the Build Up Mississippi Act, the largest total tax cut in state history was signed into law on March 27.

  • ITEP Work in Action   March 27, 2025

    Policy Matters Ohio: Flat Income Tax Would Gut Ohio’s Budget

    Ohio’s House Ways and Means Committee today holds its first hearing on HB 30, a bill that would tax the income of everyday Ohioans at the same rate as the state’s wealthiest households. The bill would eliminate the state’s top income-tax bracket of 3.5% on income above $100,000. By tax year 2026, Ohio would be left with a single rate of 2.75% on income above $27,350.

  • ITEP Work in Action   March 27, 2025

    America’s Voice: In Seeking To Turn the IRS Into ICE, Trump Finally Admits that Undocumented Workers Actually Do Pay Taxes

    The Trump administration is seeking to turn the IRS into another immigrant-hunting apparatus of the federal government, by seeking the confidential information of taxpayers who are even just suspected of being undocumented.

  • blog   March 26, 2025

    State Rundown 3/26: Lawmakers Navigate Shortfalls, Potholes, and Pitfalls

    State lawmakers around the country are navigating a range of potential hazards this week. Leaders in Maryland and Washington are facing budget holes but are smartly working to get out…
  • blog   March 26, 2025

    Two Ways a 2025 Federal Tax Bill Could Worsen Income and Racial Inequality

    Two parts of Trump’s 2017 tax law that are particularly expensive and beneficial to the richest individuals are the changes in income tax rates and brackets and the special deduction for “pass-through” business owners. Lawmakers should not extend these provisions for high-income households past the end of this year, when they are scheduled to expire.  

  • ITEP Work in Action   March 25, 2025

    Oklahoma Policy Institute: Lawmakers Should Choose Targeted Relief Amidst Budget Uncertainty

    State-level budget and tax policy matters deeply for Oklahomans because it directly affects how the state can meet its obligations to our fellow residents. This includes shared services like public safety, education, transportation construction, workforce development, and other programs that help all Oklahomans thrive.

  • media mention   March 25, 2025

    Newsweek: ICE Could Use IRS Data to Track Undocumented Immigrants

    Federal immigration authorities may soon gain access to Internal Revenue Service data under a pending agreement that would allow them to verify the names and addresses of individuals suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, according to multiple reports.

  • blog   March 25, 2025

    Tip Exemptions Have No Place in State Income Tax

    Creating a special tax break for tipped income – as at least 20 states are considering this spring – would harm state budgets, encourage tax avoidance, and fail to reach the vast majority of low- and middle-income workers.

  • ITEP Work in Action   March 25, 2025

    Oregon Center for Public Policy: Worldwide Combined Reporting: How Oregon Can Make It Hard for Corporations to Profit from Offshore Tax Avoidance

    Worldwide combined reporting is a smart, effective way Oregon can make corporations pay their fair share to support schools and essential services.

  • ITEP Work in Action   March 25, 2025

    American Society of Civil Engineers: America’s Infrastructure Scores a C

    The 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure demonstrates that recent federal
    investments have positively affected many of the infrastructure sectors Americans rely
    on every day.

  • media mention   March 25, 2025

    Axios: The Fiscal Hit from the IRS Sharing Immigration Information

    The more afraid immigrants are that the IRS will report them to immigration authorities, the less they may pay in taxes, experts warn.

  • media mention   March 24, 2025

    Vanity Fair: IRS Prepares to Provide Addresses of Some Undocumented Taxpayers to Immigration Enforcement

    “It is a complete betrayal of 30 years of the government telling immigrants to file their taxes,” one former IRS official told The Washington Post, who chose anonymity out of fear of retribution. The partnership between the IRS and ICE is one of the latest moves from President Donald Trump’s administration in their unprecedented onslaught against immigrants, especially ones without documentation.

  • media mention   March 21, 2025

    Missouri Independent: Proposed Tax Credit Boost May Be Lucrative for Missouri Anti-Abortion Centers, Donors

    When the Missouri House signed off on a $1.3 billion tax cut package last week, it included a provision creating a 100% tax credit for donations to pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes and diaper banks. 

  • blog   March 20, 2025

    State Rundown 3/20: It’s March, Welcome to Tax Policy Madness

    March Madness kicks off today and the pressure is on as many states’ legislative sessions are nearing the final buzzer. Some state lawmakers are seemingly competing for the title of…
  • media mention   March 20, 2025

    Newsweek: DOGE Stimulus Check Update: Millions Will Not Qualify

    The mastermind behind the proposal to issue “DOGE dividend” checks to Americans has confirmed to Newsweek that millions of taxpaying immigrants without legal status will not be eligible for the payments.

  • ITEP Work in Action   March 20, 2025

    Hawai’i Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice: Hawai’i Should Close Tax Loopholes for Multinational Corporations

    Multinational corporations make huge profits from the business activity they conduct in Hawaiʻi, while dodging the taxes they should be paying to support our state. These huge corporations do this by moving the profits earned within Hawaiʻi to their tax havens in foreign countries that levy almost no corporate taxes.

  • ITEP Work in Action   March 20, 2025

    Oregon Center for Public Policy: Renew and Expand the Oregon Earned Income Tax Credit

    The EITC is one of the most effective ways to address rising costs for hard-working families in Oregon.

  • ITEP Work in Action   March 20, 2025

    Massachusetts Budget & Policy Center: By Taxing GILTI Profits, Massachusetts Can Reclaim Millions in Revenue Lost to Corporate Offshore Tax Dodging

    Massachusetts loses out on hundreds of millions of tax dollars each year due to “profit-shifting”, a practice common among large, multinational corporations. International profit-shifting involves complex accounting maneuvers that make a corporation’s U.S. profits appear instead on the books of related companies located in offshore tax havens. It is an abusive form of tax avoidance that many multinational corporations use to lower their federal and state tax payments.

  • brief   March 19, 2025

    Housing Affordability and Property Taxes: How to Actually Move the Needle

    Tax policy alone cannot solve the housing crisis but lawmakers who are focused on tax policy solutions have better options available than sweeping property tax cuts and caps: property tax circuit breakers, renter credits, vacancy taxes, land value taxes, and changes to existing property tax assessments can move the needle on the affordable housing crisis.

  • media mention   March 19, 2025

    NBC News: Musk Uses Immigration and Claims of Voter Fraud to Sell Social Security Administration Cuts

    Musk has cast the idea as one that’s primarily about immigration, falsely claiming that undocumented immigrants are fraudulently accessing hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of entitlements, including Social Security, Medicaid and disability programs, as part of a Democratic scheme for votes. 

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