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  • media mention   May 18, 2020

    Yahoo! Finance: Coronavirus stimulus checks: Here’s what a second round could look like

    The new bill will provide payments worth nearly $600 billion, with the average payout of more than $3,000 to families in all but the highest income levels, according to The…
  • media mention   May 18, 2020

    Politifact:House coronavirus bill would aid immigrants, relatives cut out of previous aid package

    The left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, using IRS data, estimated that this provision would benefit more than 4.3 million adults and 3.5 million children in households of ITIN…
  • media mention   May 18, 2020

    Michigan Live:If second round of stimulus payments is approved, how much could you get?

    Additionally, the bill as currently written would make those people retroactively eligible to receive the initial stimulus payment under the CARES Act. The Institute On Taxation and Economic Policy estimates…
  • media mention   May 15, 2020

    Forbes: 4.3 Million Adults Eligible For Two $1,200 Stimulus Checks If HEROES Act Passes

    The Institute On Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) estimates that over 4.3 million adults, as well as 3.5 million children, would benefit from this change in eligibility. The organization calculated…
  • media mention   May 15, 2020

    Politico Morning Tax:STATESIDE JOCKEYING CONTINUES

    One key element of the latest legislation would provide $1,200 in direct stimulus payments to individuals including those with Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, building on an initial round of payments…
  • media mention   May 15, 2020

    Yahoo!: How the coronavirus outbreak may help keep Amazon’s federal tax bill low (again)

    “I’d say their tax rate will be a lot closer to zero than to 21%,” said Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, referencing…
  • media mention   May 15, 2020

    Madison.com: Why many rich people keep a Faustian bargain with the GOP

    The Faustian bargain embraced by well-off conservatives is all about greed. Trump lied that his 2017 tax law was to help ordinary people. The top 1 percent of income earners…
  • media mention   May 9, 2020

    Business Insider: A Tax Break Tucked in the CARES Act Will Save Some Companies Tens of Millions

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  • media mention   May 8, 2020

    Center for Public Integrity: COVID-19 Didn’t Affect This Company, But It Still Got a $893K Federal Loan

    “There doesn’t appear to be any mechanism whatsoever to ensure that these loans were available only to companies that were actually affected by the coronavirus and the associated economic shutdown,”…
  • media mention   May 8, 2020

    Quartz:Congress is facing fury over CARES Act tax breaks for the rich

    The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy explained in Aprilthat the new rules will allow companies to “game the system.” They can amend their past taxes, applying current losses to…
  • media mention   May 5, 2020

    Los Angeles Times: Trump’s Payroll Tax Cut Demand Is Absurd

    Specifically, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit think tank that tracks how taxes and tax breaks are distributed along the income spectrum, 65% of the…
  • media mention   May 4, 2020

    New Yorker: How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump

    On average, Trump gave households in the top one per cent a forty-eight-thousand-dollar tax cut, while those in the bottom twenty per cent received a hundred and twenty dollars, according…
  • media mention   May 4, 2020

    Forbes: President Trump Says Next Stimulus Package Must Have Payroll Tax Cut

    Who would this benefit? The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy did an analysis in mid-March that showed a complete elimination of the payroll tax would most benefit the top…
  • media mention   May 4, 2020

    Alternet:Government leaders including Betsy DeVos push their personal agendas as economic tsunami crashes into America’s schools

    “For states facing catastrophic revenue declines, asking more of taxpayers with a clear ability to pay is far preferable to cutting state budgets, which would lead to mass layoffs, steep…
  • media mention   May 4, 2020

    Boston Globe: Why exclude some Americans from the coronavirus stimulus?

    According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, between 50 and 75 percent of the estimated 8 million undocumented workers in the country pay annual federal income taxes using…
  • media mention   May 4, 2020

    Colorado Sun:Coloradans in the U.S. illegally — and their citizen families — were denied coronavirus aid. Will the state step in?

    According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, there are 4.35 million ITIN filers in the country, 89,500 of whom live in Colorado. Additionally, there are about 70,000 children…
  • media mention   May 4, 2020

    LA News: California should support immigrants with expanded tax credit eligibility

    According to Public Policy Institute of California, there are more than 2 million undocumented immigrants in the state, more than 6 percent of the population. Many, if not most, undocumented…
  • media mention   May 1, 2020

    Bloomberg: Loan Forgiveness Deductions Left in Hands of Congress

    The IRS could have gotten flack for allowing the deductions, tax professionals said, as the agency could be seen as effectively legislating. The agency didn’t immediately return a request for…
  • media mention   April 29, 2020

    Arizona Republic:Undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes and get no benefits. We’re going to help

    The 2016 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report stated that 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States are paying an annual estimated amount of $11.64 billion in state and local…
  • media mention   April 24, 2020

    The Washington Post: Why Paying off Your Mortgage Early Makes Sense

    The number of homeowners who benefit from the mortgage tax break plummeted following the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which nearly doubled the standard deduction, with…
  • media mention   April 18, 2020

    The State: Not Everyone with a Social Security Number Gets a Stimulus Check

    In Alejandra’s case, a U.S. citizen born in this country will be denied her stimulus check. Of course, her husband falls into the same category of roughly 4.3 million immigrants…
  • media mention   April 18, 2020

    Zero Hedge: Wall Street & Main Street ‘Rescues’ Look Increasingly Disconnected From One Another

    As Steve Wamhoff of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy points out, the changes on the use of “pass-through” losses only benefit a select group. “It has to be…
  • media mention   April 18, 2020

    Chicago Tribune: Agencies scramble to help Lake County undocumented immigrants impacted by coronavirus crisis

    According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Illinois is one of six states that derive the most revenue from taxes paid by undocumented immigrants. California, Florida, New York,…
  • media mention   April 17, 2020

    KQED: More ‘Peace of Mind’ for Undocumented Californians, Still May Not Be Enough

    Unauthorized immigrants in California collectively pay about $3 billion in state and local taxes each year, according to the nonprofit Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Read more
  • media mention   April 16, 2020

    Bloomberg Tax: Governors Ask Trump for $500 Billion in Federal Support

    The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, in a policy brief Wednesday, outlined some tax code reforms to help states cope with shortfalls and safeguard for the future. Among the…
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