“What’s happening at the state level is increasingly important, and, to many eyes, it appears to be moving things in one direction — towards greater inequality,” said Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington-based tax research group.
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media mention June 5, 2014 AP: State Governments May Be Expanding the Wealth Gap
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media mention June 3, 2014 Huffington Post: Koch Brothers Group Holds Complete Opposite of Moral Mondays Protest
North Carolina families with annual incomes below $84,000 will on average see higher taxes when the bill’s impact is combined with the legislature’s elimination of the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit and increased sales taxes, according to data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the North Carolina Justice Center.
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media mention June 3, 2014 St. Cloud Times: State Finally Rescinds Tax Regressivity
However, from 2000 to 2010, tax regressivity in Minnesota nearly doubled based on data from The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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media mention June 3, 2014 Toledo Blade: Bad budget business
The progressive advocacy group Policy Matters Ohio worked with the Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan organization in Washington, to analyze the Senate bill. They conclude that most… -
media mention June 2, 2014 Salon: Behind the 1 Percent’s Brazen New Scheme to Raise Your Taxes and Cut Their Own
By Paul Rosenberg, June 2, 2014 You might think that tax cuts that pay for themselves had disappeared from rational discourse ages ago. If so, you’d be sadly mistaken. Instead,… -
media mention June 2, 2014 Boston Globe: Tax the Roads, Not Fuel
By Jeff Jacoby, June 2, 2014 For decades, gasoline taxes have been the largest source of funds for building and fixing America’s highways. What happens if those funds dry up?… -
media mention June 2, 2014 St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Ten Good Reason to Vote against the Transportation Sales Tax
By the Editorial Board, May 31, 2014 It has been said of this editorial page that we’ve never met a tax increase we didn’t like. That’s not entirely true, but… -
media mention June 2, 2014 The Christian Science Monitor: Hurricane Season Is Here, and Preparation Is Tax-Free
By Renu Zaretsky, June 2, 2014 Hurricane season began yesterday, and millionaires or not, Floridians can purchase hurricane supplies sales-tax free until June 8. Eligible items include ice packs, flashlights, portable radios, portable generators, Tiki… -
media mention May 30, 2014 Vice: What Replaces the Gas Tax Once Electric Cars Replace Gas
By Ben Richmond, May 28, 2014 As we move to replace gasoline, the states are looking at how they’re going to replace revenue collected via the gas tax. They’re caught… -
media mention May 30, 2014 Bloomberg BNA: Extras on Excise, Running out of Gas
By Rebecca Helmes, May 28, 2014 New Hampshire drivers will soon pay more per gallon in gas tax, and in return their Interstate 93 widening project will be funded, along… -
media mention May 30, 2014 Progressive Pulse: How the Senate Pays for Its 2015 Budget Proposal
By Tazra Mitchell, May 30, 2014 On Wednesday evening, the North Carolina Senate unveiled its $21.16 billion budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year that begins in June 2014 and… -
media mention May 30, 2014 Ohio Watchdog: Is Sales Tax Holiday Good or Bad for Ohio
By Maggie Thurber, May 30, 2014 Ohio is once again considering an August sales tax holiday for schools supplies and equipment, but two tax groups think it’s a bad deal… -
media mention May 27, 2014 Deleware NewsZap: Gas Tax-Is it Still Happening?
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan think-tank, the challenge with state gas taxes is its unsustainability, as it relates to vehicle fuel efficiency and the rising cost of building infrastructure.
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media mention May 27, 2014 Bloomberg: How Gasoline-Use Drop May Raise Taxes in Deleware
Fuel-efficiency gains, inflation and higher construction costs have eroded the ability of state gasoline taxes to keep pace with needs, said Carl Davis, an analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington-based research group.
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media mention May 27, 2014 The Columbus Dispatch: State GOP Tax Cut Would Increase Income Inequality
An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington D.C. nonprofit, showed that the moves designed to help Ohioans beyond the top income brackets – the higher personal exemptions and earned income tax expansion – would generate only very modest savings for middle-income Ohioans and almost nothing for the poorest Ohioans
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media mention May 27, 2014 The Des Moines Register: Road Construction Running out of Gas?
By Editorial Board, May 25, 2014 Iowans on the road this Memorial Day weekend will likely encounter some traffic delays. It’s that time of the year when work gets underway… -
media mention May 23, 2014 Detroit Free Press: Why Michiganders Pay Among the Highest Gas Tax to Drive on Crummy Roads
By Paul Egan, May 23, 2014 High fuel taxes and low spending on roads. It’s a nasty combination, but Michigan motorists can rightfully complain they pay some of the highest… -
media mention May 22, 2014 The Star Ledger: NJ Millionaires Tax Could Help Plug Budget Hole
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board, May 20, 2014 Gov. Chris Christie has promised to announce a plan this week to put our state budget on life support. He’s suggested he will… -
media mention May 21, 2014 East Bay Express: Health Care for All?
Undocumented Californians also paid about $2.7 billion in taxes, including property, sales, and income taxes, in 2010, according to the most recent annual estimate available from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “There’s this misconception that undocumented people are ‘takers’ — that they’re benefiting from public benefits but not contributing,” said Daniel Zingale, senior vice president of The California Endowment, which has embarked on a multimillion-dollar campaign — also named “Health for All” — to raise awareness about undocumented people and their inability to access health care.
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media mention May 19, 2014 The Daily Review: An Overlooked Source of Revenue
“Editorial, May 18, 2014 Faced with growing budget deficit partially of its own making, the Corbett administration likely will retreat from its previously planned 3.7 percent increase in state spending… -
media mention May 19, 2014 Transportation Topics: Gas Tax Buying Power at All-Time Low in Some States
By Michael Fuetsch, May 19, 2014 The gasoline tax is so low and has not been raised for so long in 10 states, that the levy’s purchasing power has fallen… -
media mention May 19, 2014 The Star-Ledger: NJ’s Gas Tax Cut in Half When Adjusted for Inflation
By Alex Napoliello, May 19, 2014 New Jersey’s gas tax is at an all-time low. That may not be a surprise for those who have been following a recent proposal… -
media mention May 19, 2014 The Gazette: Iowa Ranks Low for Keeping up with Gas Tax
By B.A. Morellie, May 19, 2014 A new report shows Iowa is one of 10 states where the gas tax, when considering inflation, is at a historic low. The report… -
media mention May 12, 2014 Des Moines Register: Iowa Fuel Tax Hits Low
By Jason Noble, May 10, 2014 “Iowa is one of 10 states in which fuel taxes have hit an inflation-adjusted “all-time low,” according to a report issued last week by… -
media mention May 12, 2014 Politico: What’s Happening in the States?
(Original Post) Morning Tax, May 9, 2014 The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has a new report that finds that ten states have record-low gas tax rates when inflation…