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ITEP Work in Action December 18, 2016 Report to the Louisiana Governor: SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN LOUISIANA
Pursuant to the charges of JBE 2016-23, the Governor’s Task Force on Transportation Infrastructure Investment (Task Force) worked diligently over a six-month period to determine what must be done to… -
ITEP Work in Action December 18, 2016 Kansas Center for Economic Growth: A Guide to Comprehensive Tax Reform in Kansas
The morning after the election was tough. Half the country woke up feeling devastated, the other half awoke feeling excited. Regardless of who you voted for, it’s hard to come… -
ITEP Work in Action December 16, 2016 Georgia Budget & Policy Institute: A Bottom-Up Tax Cut to Build Georgia’s Middle Class Update
Building a better Georgia, with a strong economy and vibrant communities, requires a more resilient middle class and more opportunities for working families to climb the economic ladder. One of… -
ITEP Work in Action November 30, 2016 Montana Budget & Policy Center: Introduction to Who Pays Montana’s Taxes
Chart 1 outlines the three main state and local taxes – income, property, and sales/excise—and how the cost of these taxes is distributed among taxpayers. Both property and sales/excise taxes are regressive. Conversely, income taxes are progressive.
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ITEP Work in Action November 30, 2016 Montana Budget & Policy Center: Montana’s Individiual Income Tax
Prior to the tax cuts implemented in 2003, Montana had ten different income brackets, with each higher income bracket paying a slightly larger share of their income in taxes (Appendix… -
ITEP Work in Action September 30, 2016 Montana Budget & Policy Center: A Montana Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
Approximately 83,000 Montanans received the federal EITC in 2014. If Montana established a state EITC, these same working families would receive additional support through boosted wages and would be better able to meet their family’s needs. Additionally, low-income families receiving a state EITC would face a reduced tax burden.
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ITEP Work in Action September 26, 2016 Policy Matters Ohio: Testimony: Tax Cuts, Flat Tax Aren’t the Answer
Overall, the top 1 percent, who made more than $360,000 a year in 2014, received an average annual tax cut of $20,000 from the major tax changes between 2005 and 2014 (that doesn’t include last year’s cuts). On average, Ohioans in the bottom 60 percent of the income spectrum (making $54,000 or less) are paying slightly more.
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ITEP Work in Action July 30, 2016 Montana Budget & Policy Center: The Montana We Could Be
In Montana, the higher a household’s income, the lower share of that income it tends to pay in state and local taxes [see Chart 1]. One reason for this is that people who make less money end up paying a larger share of their income in local sales taxes and property taxes.
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ITEP Work in Action December 23, 2015 Massachusets Budget and Policy Center: Funding Improvements for Schools, Roads, and Public Transit with Tax Reforms that Improve Fairness
Our economic growth is not translating into significant economic progress for most of our people and this directly harms working families. The lack of more broadly shared economic progress also has harmed our state’s ability to make important investments that can make life better for working people.
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media mention September 19, 2015 News and Observer: An NC budget that chooses decline over investment
It is too generous to call the new state budget a spending plan. It is a spending reaction. Leaders should have a plan, a goal. This is a budget drawn… -
media mention May 29, 2015 Asheville Citizen-Times: Long-term tax shifts may hit rich and poor differently
North Carolina’s sales tax law has loopholes large enough to drive a truck through — or sail a boat, pilot an airplane or guide a train. Or pull a wood… -
ITEP Work in Action February 28, 2015 Maryland Center on Economic Policy: Maryland’s Poor Taxed More Than Rich; Communities of Color Feel Biggest Pinch
The state’s highest income households pay the lowest percentage of their yearly earnings in state and local taxes compared to middle-class and low-income households. Residents struggling the most to make… -
report January 10, 2015 Who Pays? Fifth Edition
Read the Report in PDF The 2015 Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All Fifty States (the fifth edition of the report) assesses the fairness of…