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ITEP Work in Action October 28, 2024 ITEP’s Eli Byerly-Duke on Oklahoma’s Sales Tax Relief Credit
On October 23, 2024, ITEP Policy Analyst Eli Byerly-Duke presented to an interim study in the Oklahoma House focused on modernizing the Sales Tax Relief Credit. Click here for slides… -
ITEP Work in Action October 24, 2024 AFSCME: Trump’s Tax Plans Would Benefit the Rich, Harris’ Plan Would Benefit Everyone Else
Donald Trump’s tax plan would cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans, whereas Kamala Harris’ plan would cut taxes for everyone but the wealthy. That’s the takeaway from a new analysis… -
media mention October 23, 2024 The Marshall Project: Fact-checking Over 12,000 of Donald Trump’s Statements About Immigration
The Marshall Project used text analysis to identify 13 major claims about immigration in over 350,000 of Trump’s public statements from Factba.se, some of which Trump has made 500 times or… -
ITEP Work in Action October 23, 2024 Accountable.us: Top 15 Corporate Beneficiaries of Trump Tax Giveaway Law Have Since Spent $839B on Shareholder Handouts
The 15 largest corporate beneficiaries of the Trump tax law used their savings to collectively spend $839 billion on stock buybacks and shareholder dividends in the years following the law’s… -
news release October 23, 2024 Harris Tax Plan Would Raise Taxes on the Richest 1%, Cut Them for Everyone Else
Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) The tax proposals announced by Vice President Harris would, on average, lead to a tax increase for the richest 1 percent of Americans and a tax… -
media mention October 19, 2024 CNN: Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans Would Be Costly. Here’s Why
Former President Donald Trump vows he’ll kick millions of undocumented immigrants out of the US if he’s reelected. Read more. -
news release October 7, 2024 Trump’s Tax Plan: Like Robin Hood in Reverse
Proposed tax changes would give richest 5% a tax cut, raise taxes on all other groups Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) The tax proposals announced by former President Trump would, on… -
media mention October 7, 2024 New York Times: Trump’s Plans Could Increase U.S. Debt While Raising Costs for Most Americans
Former President Donald J. Trump’s economic proposals could inflame the nation’s debt burden while ultimately raising costs for a vast majority of Americans, according to a pair of new economic… -
media mention October 7, 2024 Education Week: How States Use Tax Credits to Fund Private School Choice: An Explainer
Most of the biggest recent developments in the world of private school choice have centered around education savings accounts, a twist on the private school voucher that parents can spend… -
media mention October 7, 2024 NBC News: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Madeleine Dean Demand Food and Beverage CEOs Put a Stop to ‘Shrinkflation’
Two Democratic lawmakers are demanding that some of the biggest food and beverage companies stop engaging in “shrinkflation” — the practice of reducing product sizes while charging prices that are… -
media mention October 7, 2024 HuffPost: Group That Says Tariffs Are Taxes Touts Tariff-Pushing JD Vance Taking Its No-Tax Pledge
Americans for Tax Reform’s anti-tax pledge is well known in GOP circles. But what does it mean when punishing tariff hikes are on the table? Read more. -
ITEP Work in Action October 3, 2024 ITEP’s Neva Butkus Discusses Property Taxes in Indiana
On September 30, Policy Analyst Neva Butkus discussed Indiana property taxes and how Hoosiers could benefit from a circuit breaker policy at an event hosted by the Indiana Fiscal Policy… -
ITEP Work in Action September 30, 2024 Sen. Warren: Warren, Whitehouse, Casar, Lawmakers Slam 35 Companies for Paying Their Executives More Than They Pay in Federal Income Taxes
U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Representative Greg Casar (D-Texas) led their colleagues in slamming 35 major companies that have been paying their executives more than… -
media mention September 19, 2024 ITEP’s Kamolika Das Responds to Misleading Baltimore Sun Op-ed
ITEP Local Policy Director Kamolika Das had this letter to the editor published in the Baltimore Sun on September 18: David F. Tufaro’s recent commentary about the Renew Baltimore campaign… -
blog September 16, 2024 Trump’s Plan to Vaporize the Economy Through Mass Deportation
This op-ed originally appeared in the Boston Globe. What would happen if 22 percent of America’s farmworkers vanished from the workforce? Would workers from across the country flock to the… -
ITEP Work in Action September 12, 2024 ITEP’s Brakeyshia Samms: How Property Tax Circuit Breakers Could Help Chicago
ITEP Policy Analyst Brakeyshia Samms discussed property tax circuit breakers at a meeting the city of Chicago’s Committee on Housing and Real Estate on September 11, 2024. You can check… -
ITEP Work in Action September 9, 2024 The Center for American Progress Action Fund: Donald Trump Is Lying About Immigrants and Social Security/Medicare
Contrary to Donald Trump’s claims, an earned path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants strengthens Social Security and Medicare. Read more. -
blog September 9, 2024 The Quiet Effort to Make Single Parenthood More Expensive
After the dust settles on this year’s election, one of the most pressing issues confronting the next Congress and President will be how to deal with the expiration of the 2017 Trump tax cuts and, more specifically, who will pay for the cost of extending some or all of those cuts. Among the more widely accepted ideas circulating on the right is to raise income taxes on single parents, more than four in five of whom are women and a disproportionate share of whom are people of color.
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ITEP Work in Action August 26, 2024 ITEP’s Carl Davis: Pyramids, Cascades, and the Taxation of Business Inputs
ITEP Research Director Carl Davis gave this presentation to the New Mexico Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Committee on August 23, 2024. View the slides here. -
blog August 14, 2024 Local Tax Trends in 2024
Many cities, counties, and townships across the country are in a difficult, or at least unstable, budgetary position. Localities are responding to these financial pressures in a variety of ways with some charging ahead with enacting innovative reforms like short-term rental and vacancy taxes, and others setting up local tax commissions to study the problem.
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media mention August 6, 2024 Audio: ITEP’s Marco Guzman on Taxes Paid by Texas Undocumented Immigrants
Marco appeared on Texas Public Media’s The Source on August 4, 2024. Listen to the clip here. -
media mention August 1, 2024 Audio: ITEP’s Marco Guzman Talks About the Tax Payments of Connecticut’s Undocumented Immigrants
CT’s undocumented immigrants pay over $400 million in taxes annually, study finds. Read more or listen here. -
media mention August 1, 2024 Video: ITEP’s Marco Guzman Talks About the Tax Contributions of Virginia’s Undocumented Immigrants
Marco Guzman spoke with 13News Now. Watch the clip here. -
media mention July 31, 2024 Audio: ITEP’s Carl Davis Talks About the Tax Contributions of Utah’s Undocumented Immigrants
A new study describes states that the tax contributions of undocumented immigrants equate to almost $100 billion, both federally and statewide. Read more or listen here. -
media mention July 31, 2024 States Newsroom: Study Says Undocumented Immigrants Paid Almost $100 Billion in Taxes
A new study shows that undocumented immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue in 2022 while many are shut out of the programs their taxes…