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Pioneer News: New Tax Report Shows Inequities

January 20, 2015

A recent report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has shown that in nearly every state low and middle income families pay a larger share of their income in state and local taxes than wealthy families. The analysis showed that families with incomes below $32,000 pay 10% rate in local and state taxes. […]

PoliticsUSA: Despite Kansas’s Continuing Economic Disaster, Sam Brownback

January 20, 2015

A sales tax increase will not affect the rich proportionally, and according to The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, states with high sales tax are ‘fundamentally unfair” to poor, and lower-middle-income Americans; particularly in states with no income tax because they “disproportionally eat into low-wage workers’ meager incomes.” The Tax Institute’s list of the […]

New York Times: How Expensive It Is to Be Poor

January 20, 2015

And yet, whatever the poor earn is likely to be more heavily taxed than the earnings of wealthier citizens, according to a new analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. As The New York Times put it last week: “According to the study, in 2015 the poorest fifth of Americans will pay on […]

MSNBC: Running out of Options, Brownback Revisits Tax Policy

January 20, 2015

The Politico report quoted Meg Wiehe, state policy director at the liberal-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, saying, “We’ve seen this exploding budget gap, and this year, after three years of this experience, the recognition is they have to put a halt on these tax cuts.” said    Which is a polite way of […]

LA Weekly: California Has the Second Fairest Taxes in the US

January 20, 2015

California is not an easy place to do business. Our taxes and regulations are legendary. But the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy this month released its fifth “Who Pays?” report. And the Golden State ends up nearly on top when it comes to the fairness of taxes for a state’s residents. The report says […]

Baltimore Post-Examiner: Maryland Taxes Are Fairer Than Most

January 20, 2015

Maryland ranked as the 38th least “unfair” state in Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s  semi-annual taxation report, published on Wednesday. This means Maryland’s tax policies are considered more fair than three-quarters of the states.The report “Who Pays” outlines the percentages of local and state taxes as a percentage of income for all 50 states […]

Star-Ledger: Reducing Taxes for Some in NJ Would Hurt the Poor Even More

January 20, 2015

The Garden State, like every other state, calls on low-income and middle-class New Jerseyans to pay greater shares of their incomes in state and local taxes than their wealthy neighbors. New data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s latest Who Pays? report lays it out:  New Jersey’s poorest households – those earning less […]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: In Rex Sinquefield’s Vision, Mom’s Generation is Written off

January 20, 2015

The current sales and excise tax burden on somebody who earns about $32,000 in Missouri is a little more than 5 percent of their income, according to the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Meanwhile, the sales tax burden on somebody of Mr. Sinquefield’s income range is less than 1 percent. The opposite is […]

Public News Service: Illinois Poor Face Unfair Tax Burden

January 20, 2015

A new study finds Illinois’ poorest residents are paying almost three times more in taxes than the top one percent of earners. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the state takes a much greater share of income from middle and low income families than from the wealthy. Read more A new study […]

WITF: PA’s taxes among the most regressive

January 16, 2015

A new report finds Pennsylvania remains on a list of the “Terrible 10” states with the most regressive tax policies. The non-partisan Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy finds that the poorest residents pay nearly three times what the wealthy pay in taxes as a share of income. Middle-income earners pay twice as much as […]

KUOW: Washington State Ranks As Having Most Regressive Tax System

January 16, 2015

Ross Reynolds talks with Meg Wiehie, state policy director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic policy, about their yearly ranking of regressive tax systems. Reynolds also speaks with Paul Guppy, vice president of research for the Washington Policy Center, who gives another take on the ranking. Read more

WESA: PA’s Taxes Among the Most Regressive

January 16, 2015

“A new report finds Pennsylvania remains on a list of the “Terrible 10” — states with the most regressive tax policies. The non-partisan Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy finds that the poorest residents pay nearly three times what the wealthy pay in taxes as a share of income. Middle-income earners pay twice as much […]

The Citizens Voice: Tax burden unfair

January 16, 2015

As legislative leaders in Harrisburg refuse to implement a tax on Marcellus Shale gas extraction and to close tax loopholes for wealthy interests, a new study reveals the consequences of such policy. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan think tank, has conducted an analysis of all 50 states and found that Pennsylvania’s […]

Santa Fe New Mexican: Tax system puts big burden on low-paid

January 16, 2015

According to a new report, New Mexico tax policy is moving in the wrong direction, as a reduction in corporate taxes coupled with increases in gross receipts taxes is putting a greater share of the burden of financing public services on working families. The report, “Who Pays,” released Wednesday by the Institute on Taxation and […]

Tulsa World: Oklahoma has the 16th most unfair state and local sales tax system

January 16, 2015

Oklahoma has the 16th most unfair state and local tax system in the country, says a report released Wednesday. In Oklahoma, the bottom 80 percent of taxpayers are paying between 8.6 percent and 10.5 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes, according to the “2015 Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax […]

News Works: Pennsylvania’s taxes among the most regressive

January 16, 2015

“A new report finds Pennsylvania remains on a list of the “Terrible 10” states with the most regressive tax policies. The nonpartisan Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy finds that the poorest residents pay nearly three times what the wealthy pay in taxes as a share of income. Middle-income earners pay twice as much as […]

Ashbury Park Press: NJ’s tax system fairer than most, though still unequal

January 16, 2015

“New Jersey’s state and local tax system is fairer than most states, though low- and middle-income residents still devote a larger share of their income to taxes than the wealthy. A study released Wednesday by New Jersey Policy Perspective and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy says that despite New Jersey’s progressive income tax […]

State of Politics: Here and Now

January 16, 2015

“Taxes in New York may be the highest in the country, but at least they are reasonably equitable, according to the latest Who Pays study from the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.” Read more

Sunshine State News: Florida taxes second-most regressive in US

January 16, 2015

“Florida’s tax system poses a larger burden on poorer residents than almost any other state, according to a report released Wednesday by policy researchers at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. In its “Who Pays?” report, ITEP found Florida’s to be the second-most regressive tax system, after the state of Washington.”

Peach Pundit: Georgia’s Working and Middle Class Face Nearly Double the Tax Rate of Top 1%

January 16, 2015

“A new study from the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy (ITEP) analyzes the tax structures of all 50 states and finds that Georgia’s richest contribute a much smaller share of their income to state and local budgets than the rest of the state. While the richest 1% of Georgians (those making over $432,000 annually) […]

RTT News: Think Tank Says Poor Americans Pay More Taxes

January 16, 2015

A report by a non-partisan think tanks says that America’s poor are disproportionately burdened when it comes to paying taxes. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, virtually every state tax system is unfair, grabbing a greater share of income from low- and middle-income families than from wealthy ones. Read more

Accounting Today: States Tax Poor More Heavily than Ultra-rich

January 16, 2015

A new report finds that every state tax system, with the exception of the District of Columbia, taxes its poorest residents at significantly higher tax rates than the wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers. The report, from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, is the fifth edition of the nonprofit research organization’s “Who Pays?” report […]

Providence Business News: Study finds R.I.’s poorest residents pay more taxes than wealthiest

January 16, 2015

“A new study says that taxpayers in the lowest-income bracket in Rhode Island can expect to pay nearly twice as much of their income toward state and local taxes as the wealthiest 1 percent. The study, “Who Pays?”, was released Wednesday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the Economic Progress Institute.” Read […]

The Salt Lake Tribune: Utah’s tax burden hits 20-year low, rich-poor gap widens

January 16, 2015

“Utah’s tax burden is at its lowest point in 20 years. But poor and middle-class Utahns pay nearly twice as much of their earnings for tax as do the wealthiest 1 percent. That is according to two reports released Wednesday, one by the Utah Foundation and the other by the Institute on Taxation and Economic […]

Arkansas Times: The poor hit harder by local taxes; bottom 40 percent left out in Asa tax cut

January 16, 2015

You can go to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy for Arkansas-specific information. Arkansas does not make the “terrible ten” most regressive states, where the bottom 20 percent pay almost seven times the percentage of their incomes in taxes as the wealthy. But it doesn’t perform very well. See graphic below. Note that the […]