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  • media mention   April 11, 2021

    The Sacramento Bee: Rich Californians have most to gain if Congress lifts cap on local tax deductions, report says

    State residents earning more than $992,800, California’s wealthiest 1%, could see an average savings of $98,650 in 2022, according to data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a…
  • media mention   April 11, 2021

    The Hill: Democrats see political winner in tax fight

    As ammunition, Democrats are pointing to a recent report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a progressive think tank, which found that 55 of the nation’s largest corporations…
  • media mention   April 10, 2021

    CNN: Jeff Bezos endorsed higher corporate tax rates. But it won’t cost him much

    Amazon (AMZN) isn’t doing anything illegal or improper — or unusual. Few corporations pay 21% of their reported pre-tax earnings in corporate income tax. That’s because there are many ways…
  • media mention   April 9, 2021

    Bloomberg: Plans for a Global Minimum Tax Revolution, Explained

    Many large corporations do. At least 55 large U.S. companies, including Nike Inc. and FedEx Corp., reported paying no U.S. federal income taxes in 2020 even though they were profitable,…
  • media mention   April 8, 2021

    New York Times: Corporate Taxes Are Wealth Taxes

    Since the mid-20th century, however, politicians of both political parties have supported cuts in the corporate-tax rate, often under intense lobbying from corporate America. The cuts have been so large…
  • media mention   April 8, 2021

    Newsweek: Top US CEOs Open to Corporate Tax Rate of 28%, Biden Says Trump Cuts Failed

    Biden campaigned on not raising taxes on anyone making less than $400,000, which would severely limit Democrats’ ability to fund the infrastructure plan should the GOP and lobbyists convince Congress…
  • media mention   April 8, 2021

    AlJazeera: Pros, cons and pragmatism: Biden’s plan to fund infrastructure

    Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, agrees. “The low cost of borrowing and the pressing spending needs we face right now make deficit…
  • media mention   April 8, 2021

    Miami Herald: Biden’s infrastructure tax hike worries some Democrats about impact on wealthy voters

    To Democratic strategists, including those close to the president, the tax plan is finely calibrated to earn the most support, drawing extra revenue from the least sympathetic segments of the…
  • media mention   April 8, 2021

    Bloomberg: White House Sees GOP’s Corporate Tax-Cut Defense as a Big Loser

    Biden said at least 55 of the largest U.S. companies paid no federal corporate income taxes in their most recent fiscal year. “It’s just not fair. It’s not fair to…
  • media mention   April 8, 2021

    Reno Gazette Journal: Is America big enough to go big again?

    A new study reports that at least 55 of the biggest corporations paid a goose egg in U.S. income taxes last year — zero, nada — despite hauling in billions in profits.…
  • media mention   April 8, 2021

    Washington Post: Biden Says He’s Open to Compromise With Republicans on $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan

    Fifty-five corporations saw zero federal tax liability in 2020, according to a report this week by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank. The amount of…
  • media mention   April 8, 2021

    NBC News: Biden’s plan to overhaul tax code would close offshore tax loopholes

    According to a recent report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, at least 55 of America’s biggest companies paid nothing in federal taxes for 2020, despite earning a…
  • media mention   April 8, 2021

    Business Insider: Biden says he wants a 28% corporate tax rate because he’s ‘sick and tired of ordinary people being fleeced’

    The president blasted companies paying little or no federal taxes, without naming them. He cited a recent report from the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy that found that…
  • media mention   April 8, 2021

    Bloomberg: Biden Tax Plan Seen Hitting Tech, Pharmaceutical Companies

    The provisions — part of the administration’s plan to finance a $2.25 trillion infrastructure package — mean that tech and pharmaceutical companies could lose many of the tax-planning tools that…
  • news release   April 2, 2021

    55 Corporations Exploit Old and New Loopholes to Pay $0 in Federal Taxes in 2020

    Media contact Twenty-six of the 55 companies paid nothing over three years In 2020, a year marked by a pandemic, small business closures and widespread job loss for ordinary people,…
  • media mention   March 31, 2021

    The New York Times: Biden Tax Plan Challenges G.O.P. Formula for Economic Growth

    The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which has long criticized American businesses for managing to avoid paying what they owe, conducted a study of Fortune 500 companies that were…
  • media mention   March 31, 2021

    Foreign Policy: To Build Bridges, Biden Plans to Hike Taxes

    A 2019 study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that at least 60 of the largest publicly held U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes in 2018.…
  • media mention   March 31, 2021

    US News: Biden Wants Corporate America to Pick Up the Tab On His Infrastructure Plan

    Moreover, a study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy of the effects of the 2017 tax cuts found that 379 companies with combined profits of nearly $766 billion…
  • media mention   March 31, 2021

    Washington Post: Power Up: Unions, liberal groups urge Biden to go even bigger on tax hikes for infrastructure plan

    Some tax experts, however, estimate that the benefits of restoring the deduction would go to the richest Americans: “House Democrats included a provision suspending the cap for 2020 as part…
  • news release   March 31, 2021

    President Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Moves Toward Ending “Zero-Tax” Profitable Corporations

    Following is a statement by Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, regarding the corporate tax provisions in the “American Jobs Plan,” released by…
  • media mention   March 30, 2021

    The Street: Cannabis Stocks Rise as New York Moves Closer to Legalization

    New York would be the 16th state, plus the District of Columbia, to fully legalize marijuana after decades of imprisoning people who participated in the cannabis black market. About one…
  • media mention   March 29, 2021

    Daily Wire: Zoom Profits in 2020: $660 Million. Zoom Tax Payment In 2021: $0

    Zoom hauled in some $660 million in pre-tax profits in 2020, compared to $16 million in profits in 2019, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “Corporations that…
  • media mention   March 26, 2021

    Washington Post: Fact-checking President Biden’s first news conference

    Biden loves this statistic, but he usually is careful to say “federal taxes.” Simply saying “taxes” makes it wrong, because no matter what the federal tax liability, these companies certainly…
  • media mention   March 25, 2021

    Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger: Eliminating state income tax would hurt Mississippi working families, widen inequities

    This is because individual income taxes are the only major tax in which the state’s highest-income earners pay a larger percentage of their income in taxes than the state’s lower-income…
  • blog   March 25, 2021

    Tax Reform Must Include Adequate Funding for the IRS

    The Biden administration has made clear that its top priorities include a major recovery package with critical investments to boost the nation’s economy and tax increases for corporations and the…
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