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.
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media mention April 7, 2025 National Catholic Reporter: Editorial: Tax Battle a Referendum on Moral Clarity
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.