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media mention January 30, 2023 Kansas Reflector: Analysis Show Kansas Chamber’s Flat Tax Proposal Costs $1.5B, Favors Top 20% of Wage Earners
Assessments by the Kansas budget director and an independent tax policy institute Monday showed the flat tax proposal by the Kansas Chamber would reduce the state budget by $1.5 billion… -
January 30, 2023 The Geographic Distribution of Extreme Wealth in the U.S. Excessive concentration of wealth runs counter to our national aspiration for genuine equality of opportunity, and it saps the vitality of… -
media mention January 27, 2023 Center for Public Integrity: How Will a Divided Government Affect Taxes?
House Republicans want tax changes that experts say would increase inequality and aren’t likely to pass the Senate. In a gridlocked federal landscape, states may hold the key. Read more. -
media mention January 27, 2023 Idaho Statesman: A Warning About Cutting Taxes in States Like Idaho That are Flush with Cash
During his State of the State address this year, Idaho Gov. Brad Little quoted Lt. Gov. Scott Bedke’s piece of ranch family wisdom. “It won’t be the bad years that… -
media mention January 26, 2023 The American Prospect: Reanimating the Taxman
At its core, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the federal government’s revenue collector and benefits administrator. Yet with Congress inclined to run virtually every function of the government through… -
media mention January 26, 2023 Wisconsin Examiner: Tax Analyst Says Flat-Rate System Will Benefit Wealthy at the Expense of the Majority
The wealthiest Wisconsin residents already pay a smaller share of their incomes in state taxes than the rest of the population, and replacing the state’s current graduated-rate income tax structure… -
media mention January 26, 2023 Newsweek: The GOP’s 30 Percent Sales Tax Plan Is Tearing the Republican Party Apart
Republicans in the House of Representatives appear divided over a proposed national sales tax that would replace income taxes, with Democrats using the issue to attack the GOP. Read more. -
ITEP Work in Action January 25, 2023 Kentucky Center for Economic Policy: Reducing the Income Tax Will Weaken the Commonwealth
House Bill 1 in the 2022 Kentucky General Assembly is the next step in a legislative effort to phase down and even eliminate Kentucky’s income tax. This policy path is… -
media mention January 25, 2023 Yahoo Money: The Fair Tax Act Aims to Abolish the IRS and Set a National Sales Tax. Here’s How It Would Work
Imagine this: Instead of paying federal taxes to the IRS, you pay them to your local cafe every time you buy a latte or to your supermarket when you make… -
media mention January 25, 2023 Yahoo News: Flat Income Taxes: Who Are the Biggest Winners and Losers?
From Kansas to Wisconsin to Nebraska, the conversation surrounding a flat tax has picked up as of late, with more state legislators pushing for as much. Read more. -
ITEP Work in Action January 23, 2023 Open Sky Policy Institute: Major Tax and Education Plans Would Quickly Drain Flush State Coffers
The cost of high-profile K-12 finance and tax packages introduced this week would entirely consume the projected $1.9 billion that lawmakers have to enact new legislation in the current two-year budget… -
media mention January 20, 2023 KUOW Seattle: WA Democrats Join Nationwide Rollout of ‘Wealth Tax’ Proposals
Washington state Democrats Sen. Noel Frame and Rep. My-Linh Thai announced legislation Thursday to create a state wealth tax on financial assets in excess of $250 million. They say it… -
blog January 18, 2023 Several States Make New Moves to Tax Wealth
Lawmakers in seven states will introduce legislation this week to tax wealth in a new coordinated effort to combat ever-increasing income and wealth inequality. The bills couldn’t come at a better time, as those at the very top continue to pull apart from the rest of us and far too many states contemplate piling on to this runaway inequality with seemingly endless tax cuts for those at the top.
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map January 18, 2023 How Many States Have a Flat Income Tax?
Two-thirds of states with broad-based personal income tax structures have a graduated rate, while one-third have flat taxes.
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ITEP Work in Action January 17, 2023 The Commonwealth Institute: Support Virginia Families Through a Commonwealth Kids Credit
True economic prosperity means that families are doing well and have the resources and opportunity to thrive. By coming together, people in Virginia have won an improved Earned Income Tax… -
news release January 17, 2023 Flat Taxes: ‘All Sizzle and No Steak’
While most states have a graduated rate income tax, some state lawmakers have recently become enamored with the idea of moving away from graduated rate personal income taxes and toward… -
media mention January 13, 2023 CBS News: As Tax Season Nears, a Backlogged IRS Faces GOP Push to Stamp It Out
The IRS is gearing up for another tax season amid a slew of challenges, according to a new report. Most pressing is the need to upgrade its “antiquated” systems and… -
blog January 10, 2023 New House Rules: Low Taxes for the Wealthy on Cruise Control, Tax Credits for Working People Face Roadblock
Two new rules will hamper the new Congress’s ability to pass tax legislation in the next two years. One requires a supermajority for legislation that increases income tax rates, and the other requires cuts to mandatory spending programs—like Medicare, Social Security, veterans’ benefits or unemployment insurance—in exchange for changes to the Child Tax Credit or Earned Income Tax Credit that would mostly help low-income families.
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blog January 10, 2023 New House Majority Quickly Moves to Help Wealthy Evade Taxes
The “Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act” would rescind 90 percent of the new funding for the IRS included in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act. This would eliminate the new law’s $45.6 billion to enforce the tax code for people making more than $400,000 and repeal an additional $26 billion in IRS funding that would include, among other things, a pilot for a free e-file program to make it easier for people with relatively simple tax returns to file. The slash-and-burn bill comes just weeks after Republicans forced a 2 percent cut in annual IRS funding as part of the omnibus spending plan.
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media mention January 10, 2023 Newsweek: Wealthy Tax Cheats Set To Benefit From Republicans’ Defunding of IRS
Now that Kevin McCarthy has finally been elected House speaker, and a new congressional term sworn in, the GOP has already voted on one of its key promises made during… -
media mention January 10, 2023 Governing: The Biggest Issues to Watch in 2023
State coffers are overflowing, but inflation could put a pinch on spending plans and tax cuts. The labor market remains tight just when the demand for more teachers is skyrocketing.… -
ITEP Work in Action January 6, 2023 Better Wyoming: Want to Slow Wyo’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle? Tax Jackson.
According to a new report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), Wyoming has several options to generate new tax revenue from our ultra-wealthy residents and decrease the state’s… -
media mention January 4, 2023 Vox: The Ultrarich are Getting Cozy in America’s Tax Havens at Everyone Else’s Expense
More states are slashing or eliminating taxes, lessening the burden mostly for the wealthy. What does that cost the rest of us? Read more. -
media mention January 3, 2023 Los Angeles Times: You’re Not Getting Child Tax Credit Checks Anymore. Here’s Why
If you raised children during the pandemic, you probably remember something remarkable: getting checks in the mail, every month, from the federal government. The expanded child tax credit provided a… -
media mention January 3, 2023 The Hill: Trump Tax Returns Raise Alarms About Fairness of US Tax Code
A preliminary review of the thousands of pages of Donald Trump’s tax returns released by a key congressional committee on Friday confirms that the former president was using business losses in…