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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.
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media mention March 19, 2025 The Free Press: The Illegal Immigrants Who Love Trump
Many Americans don’t realize how much cash illegal immigrants contribute to the economy. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, “undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022,” using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs). Though they aren’t eligible for tax benefits, like Social Security, many hope that making these payments will one day help their case for legalization.
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media mention March 17, 2025 Stateline: Child Tax Credits, Long a Liberal Priority, Find Favor In Republican States
Cash would flow directly into the hands of Ohio parents under a proposal from Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. As part of multibillion-dollar budget negotiations this session, Ohio lawmakers will consider the new refundable tax credit worth up to $1,000 per young child, to be paid for by an increase in tobacco taxes.
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media mention March 14, 2025 The Boston Globe: If the IRS Betrays Immigrants, We All Pay the Price
Millions of immigrants living in the country illegally still pay income taxes every year, contributing billions to federal, state, and local governments, often through the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number program (ITIN), which allows those without Social Security numbers to file returns. (Of course, immigrants — like everyone else — also pay sales taxes, gas taxes, etc.)
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blog March 12, 2025 State Rundown 3/12: Last-Minute Tax Cut Mayhem and New Progressive Revenue Raisers
A bevy of tax cut proposals sprung to life this week while others were signed into law. In Kentucky, lawmakers are working to make it easier for the legislature to enact income and business tax cuts. The governor in Idaho signed into law a personal and corporate income tax cut.
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ITEP Work in Action March 12, 2025 Minnesota Budget Project: Trump’s 2025 Tax Plans Would Hurt Everyday Americans
Trump tax plans – like extending most provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) that are set to expire, special tax breaks for people who earn some kinds of income, or new corporate tax cuts – would provide the largest tax cuts to higher-income households and profitable corporations. Because the Trump tax plans are also very costly, they could add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit every year and put health care, food support, and other public services that low- and middle-income people benefit from on the chopping block to pay for those tax cuts.1
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media mention March 10, 2025 Business Insider: Starbucks Likely Avoided Taxes on $1.3 billion in Profit Using a Swiss Subsidiary, a New Report Finds
A little-known Starbucks subsidiary in Switzerland appears to have played a big role in how much the coffee chain paid over the last decade in taxes, according to a new report. On paper, Starbucks Coffee Trading Company, or SCTC, based in the Swiss Canton of Vaud, is responsible for sourcing unroasted coffee from countries like Colombia and Rwanda before it’s used in beverages at Starbucks’ cafés. It also oversees Starbucks’ Coffee and Farmer Equity Practices program for ethical coffee sourcing.
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ITEP Work in Action March 10, 2025 Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research: Starbucks’ Swiss Scheme: ‘Fair’ Trading or Global Tax Dodge?
A new report from CICTAR alleges that hidden behind its ‘ethical’ sourcing of coffee beans, Starbucks engages in major global tax avoidance. The report estimates that at least $1.3 billion has been diverted via Starbucks’ Swiss subsidiary over the last decade. On paper only, all of Starbucks’ coffee – at least 3% of the global coffee bean trade – is purchased via a Swiss subsidiary. This entity, Starbucks Coffee Trading Company Sarl, has marked up the price by a stunning 15-18% before re-selling to other Starbucks subsidiaries for roasting and retailing.
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media mention March 7, 2025 Washington Post: GOP Voucher Plan Would Divert Billions in Taxes to Private Schools
Congressional Republicans, backed by the White House, are pushing for a new tax credit that would direct billions of dollars a year to school voucher programs — and not just in conservative states. The program would be fueled by a powerful, never-before-tried incentive: Taxpayers who donate to voucher programs would get 100 percent of their money back when they file their taxes. That means the tax break for giving to voucher programs would dwarf tax incentives for giving to churches, hospitals, food banks and every other charity.