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media mention November 24, 2021 CNN Business: This Tax Would Make Wealthy Corporations Pay Their Fair Share
Corporate America has perfected the art of dodging the taxes that everyone else pays. From 2018 to 2020, 39 of the largest companies in America paid zero dollars in federal… -
media mention November 19, 2021 Forbes: How An $80,000 SALT Cap Stacks Up Against A Full Deduction For Those Making $400,000 Or Less
Congress seems to be considering two ways to address the Tax Cut and Job Act’s $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction. The House version of President… -
media mention November 19, 2021 The Washington Post: Who would pay more and less in taxes under the House bill
The millionaire’s surtax aims to raise taxes on wealthy Americans without touching rates. The alternative minimum tax for corporations aspires to accomplish a similar aim by raising money from profitable… -
news release November 19, 2021 House Passage of Build Back Better Bill Moves America’s Tax Code in the Right Direction
The Build Back Better plan that the House passed today will transform the country and make our tax code more progressive, more equitable and better able to pay for crucial priorities.
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media mention November 18, 2021 LGBTQ Nation: Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act will give tax refunds to some same-sex couples
In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Windsor that the federal government must recognize LGBTQ marriages in states that had legalized marriage equality. Per that ruling, the… -
media mention November 18, 2021 Common Dreams: Elizabeth Warren Releases Blueprint to End ‘Free Ride’ for Tax-Dodging US Billionaires
According to the report—which is based on data Warren’s staff compiled from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy—although Amazon paid $2.8 billion in federal and foreign income taxes in… -
blog November 18, 2021 Key Reform in Build Back Better Act Would Close Loophole Used by the Rich To Avoid Funding Healthcare
The proposal in the Democrats’ Build Back Better proposal applies the 3.8 percent Net Investment Income Tax to all profit distributions from partnerships and S-corporations so that this income of wealthy pass-through business owners no longer escapes.
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blog November 18, 2021 Tax Credit Reforms in Build Back Better Would Benefit a Diverse Group of Families
The CTC and EITC provisions would have a particularly profound effect on the poorest 20 percent of Americans, who all will have incomes of less than $22,000 in 2022. Taken together, the EITC and CTC changes would lift the average income of these households by more than 10 percent.
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report November 18, 2021 Analysis of the House of Representatives’ Build Back Better Legislation
If the bill becomes law, in 2022 federal taxes would go up for the average taxpayer among the richest one percent and down for the average taxpayer in other income groups.
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blog November 18, 2021 Report Illustrates How 70 Corporations Could Be Affected by Minimum Tax Proposal in the Build Back Better Act
Amazon, Bank of America, Facebook, FedEx, General Motors, Google, Netflix, PayPal, T-Mobile and Verizon are just a few of the 70 corporations that would have paid more taxes under the Democrats’ proposed Corporate Profits Minimum Tax (CPMT) if it had been in effect in 2020 according to a new report from Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office with estimates verified by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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news release November 15, 2021 ITEP Statement on President Biden Signing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
America does better when we invest in our people, our places and our planet. The infrastructure bill that President Biden signed today will restore and strengthen our physical infrastructure, making repairs and improvements that are long overdue. Now Congress needs to take the next step and pass legislation that taxes wealthy people and corporations to pay for our care and climate infrastructure.
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media mention November 15, 2021 Newsweek: Families Could Get $1,800 per Child Tax Credit, but Must Register Now
The child tax credit was expanded under President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan in March in a bid to reduce child poverty. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimated… -
media mention November 12, 2021 Salon: Meet Tom Suozzi, the Democrat who wants tax cuts for the rich jammed into Build Back Better
Suozzi has for months pushed a total repeal of the cap, which would cost taxpayers about $85 billion per year, according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget… -
media mention November 10, 2021 The Hill: Democrats at odds over SALT changes
The left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released an analysis finding that the House proposal would provide more of its benefits to households in the top 1 percent of… -
blog November 4, 2021 Democrats Seek to Eliminate the Stock Buyback Advantage
An important reform in the bill before Congress would tax stock buybacks in a way that is more comparable to how dividends are taxed. Corporations would be required to pay a tax equal to 1 percent of their stock repurchases, ensuring that profits shifted to shareholders in this way are subject to some federal tax.
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report November 4, 2021 The Impact of Work From Home on Commercial Property Values and the Property Tax in U.S. Cities
The fiscal implications of a decline in commercial property values are important because the property tax is the dominant local source of taxes, and commercial property makes up a significant portion of the property base in cities.
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blog November 3, 2021 Senators Menendez and Sanders Show the Way Forward on the SALT Cap
Amending the Build Back Better bill to fully repeal the SALT cap would mean that the richest 1 percent could pay less in personal income taxes than they do now, which goes against everything President Biden has said for the past year as he promoted this legislation.
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blog October 27, 2021 America’s Richest Would Finally Pay Taxes on Most of Their Income Under Wyden’s Billionaires Income Tax
While the Ways and Means bill includes many helpful tax reforms, people like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk would still pay an effective tax rate of zero percent on most of their income if it was enacted without this change. Sen. Wyden’s proposal would finally end this injustice.
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ITEP Work in Action October 27, 2021 Oklahoma Policy Institute: A Budget and Tax Roadmap for Oklahoma
A more just tax system will level the playing field for all Oklahomans, providing more opportunity to save and build wealth. It will also benefit the economy, as equal opportunity… -
blog October 27, 2021 Senate Democrats’ Corporate Minimum Tax Could Address the Worst Corporate Tax Dodging
There is no reason corporations reporting hundreds of millions, but not billions, of dollars in profits to their shareholders should be allowed to avoid paying taxes. Nonetheless, the corporate minimum tax is a huge step forward and a valuable component of the Build Back Better plan.
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brief October 21, 2021 Boosting Incomes and Improving Tax Equity with State Earned Income Tax Credits in 2021
The EITC benefits low-income people of all races and ethnicities. But it is particularly impactful in historically excluded Black and Hispanic communities where discrimination in the labor market, inequitable educational systems, and countless other inequities have relegated a disproportionate share of people to low-wage jobs.
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blog October 18, 2021 Federal Tax Reform Would be a Step in the Right Direction for Millennials of Color
Currently, millennials of color are worse off than their parents when it comes to wealth expectations. So, if one of the goals of federal policymakers is to reduce racial income and wealth disparities, the proposals outlined are a good start. Tax reforms included in the budget package making its way through Congress would help by boosting incomes and making raising children more affordable—two things that would help millennials of color thrive in today’s economy.
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blog October 18, 2021 The Role of Census Data in Policy and Racial Equity
The Census has changed the way it asks questions in the past and can choose to do so again in the future. As the Biden administration makes data a central part of its plan to achieve greater racial equity, it has an opportunity to implement research-backed changes that will improve our understanding of race and ethnicity in the United States, and in turn, our ability to draw meaningful conclusions about how our tax laws impact tax filers of different races.
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brief October 14, 2021 Investment Income and Racial Inequality
Congress has a historic opportunity to fix the way the preferential treatment of investment income widens the racial wealth gap and to strive toward a racially equitable tax code.
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blog October 14, 2021 Limiting Tax Breaks for Capital Gains Would Mitigate the Racial Wealth Gap
The racial wealth and income gaps are the results of centuries of government policies favoring the accumulation of wealth among white communities while marginalizing communities of color. Policy solutions that are race-forward, meaning they remedy past and ongoing racial inequities, can also address broader social inequities.