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  • media mention   October 1, 2020

    Newsweek: What VP Candidate Kamala Harris Has Said About a Second Stimulus Check

    The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy conducted an analysis of the plan, finding that its 10-month price tag could be at least $5.6 trillion—more than twice the amount of…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    WGN NewsNation: President Trump calls income tax report ‘fake news,’ says he’s still under IRS audit

    Matt Gardner is with the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington. He spoke with NewsNation’s Dean Reynolds about the New York Times report. “This isn’t news that the…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    Marketwatch: Trump’s 2017 tax bill was reportedly $750 — here’s how that stacks up against the average American’s taxes

    That’s according to an analysis from Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the left-leaning Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy. (Wamhoff looked at income tax liabilities by adjusted…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    Bloomberg: Trump’s reported $750 federal income tax bill is smaller than the average payment by an American household making $20,000 a year

    The data — drawn from the IRS — shows Trump’s tax payment is less compared to households earning between $20,000 and $25,000 each year. Around 9 million people filed tax…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    Bloomberg: Profitable Losses, or How Trump Trimmed His Taxes: QuickTake

    An article by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy on tax breaks for real-estate investors like Trump. Read more
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    Business Insider: I made $10,500 as a freelancer in 2018 — and still paid more taxes than Trump. The system is broken.

    According to a 2019 report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, 60 companies, including Netflix, Chevron, and Eli Lilly, did not pay federal income taxes in 2018. “Instead…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    TRT World: Trump’s tax returns reveal a system that rewards all of America’s elite

    The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy analysed SEC filings of Fortune 500 companies and identified 60 major corporations that didn’t report any federal income tax expenses in 2019. Read…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    Scoop: ‘The American People Should Be Pissed Off’: Critics Say Trump Tax Dodging Exposes System Rotten to the Core

    Steve Wamhoff, federal policy director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, noted in a statement that the Times reporting does “not include Trump’s tax returns for 2018 and…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    Washington Post: A pug, a cat and a baby have paid more in taxes than Trump reportedly has

    Undocumented immigrants paid more than $11 billion in taxes in 2017, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. That same year, Trump paid just $750, according to the New…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    CBS News: 7 takeaways from New York Times report on President Trump’s tax returns

    At the same time Ivanka Trump was an executive officer of the Trump companies, she both profited from the hotels and the consulting fees, the Times story noted. The IRS…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    Associated Press: Trump Went Even Further Than Other Uber-rich to Shrink Taxes

    So say tax experts in the wake of a New York Times report Sunday that found that Trump paid only $750 in taxes in both 2016 and 2017 — and…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    CBS News: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Trump for paying less in taxes than “waitresses and undocumented immigrants”

    Former Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro joined Ocasio-Cortez’s criticism, citing a figure from the the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy that found undocumented immigrants pay nearly $12 billion in federal…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    Orlando Sentinel: Trump’s tax strategy: Unfair or just good business?

    Many large companies, including Amazon, General Motors and IBM, paid no taxes in 2018, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Something is wrong with the tax code,…
  • media mention   September 29, 2020

    Common Dreams: The American people should be angry’: Critics say Trump tax dodging exposes a system rotten to the core

    Steve Wamhoff, federal policy director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, noted in a statement that the Times reporting does “not include Trump’s tax returns for 2018 and…
  • media mention   September 28, 2020

    Washington Post: What Trump’s and Biden’s competing economic agendas reveal about the economy

    Inequality also interacts with money and politics to block the very types of productive, equalizing spending that Biden proposes, while insisting on the nonproductive tax cuts that partially drive the…
  • media mention   September 28, 2020

    Investopedia: How Fortune 500 Companies Avoid Paying Income Tax

    The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) found that over the eight-year period from 2008 to 2015, 258 profitable Fortune 500 companies paid an average effective federal income tax rate of…
  • media mention   September 25, 2020

    Salon: Obamacare lawsuit heading to Supreme Court would slash taxes for top 0.1%

    The lawsuit was filed after Senate Republicans unsuccessfully tried to repeal Obamacare despite campaigning on the issue for years. “Repealing ObamaCare has always been about tax cuts for the rich,”…
  • media mention   September 23, 2020

    Route 50: Why States and Localities Should Increase—Not Decrease—Spending

    As the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) wrote in an April report, “Even with more federal support, states will need home-grown revenue solutions in the short, medium and long…
  • media mention   September 21, 2020

    Politico Morning Tax: Digging in on SALT

    Matt Gardner of the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy thought this particular portion of the SALT debate had a number of layers to it. Among them: Deductions for…
  • media mention   September 18, 2020

    New York Times: Morning Newsletter

    Many states have tax systems that are regressive: They take a greater share of income from the poor than the rich. And because a disproportionate share of the richest taxpayers…
  • media mention   September 18, 2020

    Black Enterprise: Study Shows Illinois Tax System Harder on Black, LatinX Taxpayers

    A study released Thursday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) showed Illinois’ flat tax system disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic taxpayers. According to the study, the state’s…
  • media mention   September 18, 2020

    WREX Rockford: National research group: Flat tax structure favors wealthier Illinoisans

    Another group has weighed in on the graduated income tax ballot questions voters will decide on in November. A research study conducted by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy…
  • media mention   September 18, 2020

    Bloomberg: Stimulus Strategizing as Election Nears

    Flat Tax Pitfalls: Illinois’ flat income tax perpetuates inequities that force minority communities to pay a large chunk of their earnings to the state, while permitting upper-income taxpayers to retain…
  • media mention   September 18, 2020

    Chicago Tribune: Fair Tax or Hike?

    And on Thursday, Yes for Fairness promoted a study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank, that said it found the long term effects of…
  • media mention   September 15, 2020

    Yahoo! Finance: Salt Cap Isn’t Scaring Away Blue State Millionaires

    The $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions imposed as part of the 2017 Republican tax law is not causing high-income taxpayers to flee high-tax blue states, according to…
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