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ITEP Work in Action March 30, 2023 New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute: Households with High Incomes Disproportionately Benefit from Interest and Dividends Tax Repeal
New analyses of the elimination of New Hampshire’s Interest and Dividends Tax show that the reduction in tax revenue disproportionately benefits individuals and households with high incomes while significantly reducing… -
blog March 30, 2023 Better Local Tax Policy Can Help Communities Thrive
From dedicating new taxes to fund climate action and public health to vacancy and “mansion” taxes, many local leaders are already exploring ways to make their tax systems more progressive and sustainable. ITEP is committed to helping local leaders and advocates build on this work by advancing knowledge about local tax solutions.
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news release March 30, 2023 ITEP Launches Local Tax Team
Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) For decades, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) has played a role in shaping equitable and sustainable tax systems at the federal and state… -
ITEP Work in Action March 30, 2023 Maine Center for Economic Policy: Impacts of Proposed Income Tax Rate Reduction
House and Senate Republicans are demanding income tax cuts be part of the budget, and Democrats in the legislature were right to make sure they didn’t have the tools to… -
media mention March 29, 2023 Time: No One Is Talking About What Ron DeSantis Has Actually Done to Florida
Media coverage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s all-but-announced candidacy for president is already in full frenzy, and so far the script is exactly as his handlers would like it to… -
ITEP Work in Action March 29, 2023 Oregon Center for Public Policy: How to Pay (PAE) for It? Enact Complete Reporting
Making Oregonians more economically secure requires investing in our well-being: housing, education, child care, and more. One fair way to pay for these investments is to fight corporate tax avoidance… -
ITEP Work in Action March 27, 2023 OpenSky Policy Institute Webinar: Data Shows Child Tax Credits Benefit Hardworking Families
New evidence on child tax credits at the federal level has shown “stunning” results in lifting children out of poverty throughout the country and a state-level policy could continue that… -
blog March 27, 2023 Race-Conscious Tax Policy Discourse is Shifting the Conversation About the Tax Code
As we look ahead to what comes next in our journey to a more race-conscious tax policy debate, it’s worth reflecting on how we got here and what we’ve learned along the way.
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ITEP Work in Action March 24, 2023 Washington State Supreme Court: Opinion Upholding Capital Gains Excise Tax
In 2021, the Washington Legislature enacted a capital gains tax, levied at a rate of seven percent on the sale or exchange of certain long-term capital assets. Read more. (See… -
media mention March 23, 2023 Deseret News: Biden Wants to ‘Tax the Rich.’ Does a Tax Hike Make Sense?
The U.S. had about 720 billionaires at the start of his presidency, President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union speech. “Now we have about 1,000,” he said.… -
news release March 22, 2023 Costly and Poorly Targeted Senior Tax Subsidies Widen Economic, Racial, and Generational Inequalities
Contact: Jon Whiten – [email protected] Costly and Poorly Targeted Senior Tax Subsidies Widen Economic, Racial, and Generational Inequalities State lawmakers should focus on improving overall tax fairness, not creating special… -
ITEP Work in Action March 21, 2023 Massachussets Budget & Policy Center: Taking Measure of the Governor’s Tax Plan
Governor Healey’s tax relief proposal would reduce state revenue available for future investments by $986 million annually. Three proposed tax credits would be progressive, meaning the benefits for lower-income households would… -
report March 16, 2023 Effects of President Biden’s Proposal to Expand the Child Tax Credit
In his latest budget proposal, President Biden proposes enhancing the Child Tax Credit (CTC) based on the temporary credit that was in effect for 2021 as part of the American Rescue Plan Act. In this report we analyze how that proposal would help children and families.
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ITEP Work in Action March 15, 2023 Policy Matters Ohio: Testimony on HB 1 Before the House Ways and Means Committee
This bill proposes a substantial rewriting of Ohio’s property and personal income taxes. It is an overly complicated, poorly designed bill that does not achieve what the sponsor claimed it… -
blog March 14, 2023 Worried About the Debt? Tax the Rich
As one of the most prosperous countries in human history, we have enough resources for our collective needs. By better taxing corporations and the wealthiest, we can generate revenue to improve family security, strengthen our communities, and reduce the debt too.
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media mention March 13, 2023 Kansas Legislators’ War on the Poor Opens Worrisome New Front: School Vouchers and Tax Avoidance
Kansas legislative leaders have declared war on the poor. They have pushed bills penalizing those receiving government assistance through the House Welfare Reform Committee. They have advocated a flat tax plan that benefits… -
media mention March 10, 2023 Vox: Biden’s Plan to Tax the Rich, Explained
Billionaires in the US pay a tiny proportion of the wealth they accrue in taxes compared to the cut ordinary Americans pay from their wages. Now, President Joe Biden wants that to… -
media mention March 10, 2023 MarketWatch: Biden’s Tax Hikes for the Rich are Unlikely to Pass. The Bigger Debate: Trump-era Tax Cuts that End in 2025.
For five years, most Americans have seen lower income-tax rates and tapped a bigger standard deduction, but without congressional action before the end of 2025, the rules could still revert… -
news release March 9, 2023 ITEP Statement: President Biden Lays Out a Bold Vision for Tax Justice in Proposed Budget
President Biden’s budget proposal presents a bold vision for what tax justice should look like in America. The provisions would raise substantial revenue, fund important priorities and increase tax fairness.
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blog March 9, 2023 Politifalse: A Fact-Checker Does Biden an Injustice on Taxes Paid by Billionaires
Most Americans pay more in Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes than they pay in federal personal income tax. So just looking at the personal income tax for comparison misses most of the taxes middle-income Americans pay. That is not true for billionaires because a much, much smaller proportion of their income is subject to the federal payroll taxes.
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media mention March 9, 2023 Louisiana Illuminator: Private School Tax Credit is a ‘Charitable Facade’ for the Rich, Study Says
A new study found that Louisiana’s private school voucher tax credit is siphoning money from public education and serving as a tax shelter for the wealthy rather than encouraging charitable… -
media mention March 8, 2023 Los Angeles Times: Wall Street Journal Tells Us to Weep for the Plight of the Very, Very Rich
Coverage of the richest Americans in publications aimed at their tax bracket tend to fall into two genres. One is stories claiming that income well into six figures doesn’t make them really… -
media mention March 7, 2023 The Why: Matt Gardner on Corporate Tax Avoidance
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news release March 7, 2023 Lured by Promises of Financial Gain, Wealthy Families are Flocking to Voucher Tax Shelters and Eroding Public Education in the Process
Contact: Jon Whiten – [email protected] Lawmakers in several states are discussing enacting or expanding school voucher tax credits, which reimburse individuals and businesses for “donations” they make to organizations that… -
media mention March 7, 2023 CNBC: State Tax Rates Are Not Central to Migration Patterns
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