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media mention January 22, 2020 ProPublica: The IRS Decided to Get Tough Against Microsoft. Microsoft Got Tougher.
Microsoft, meanwhile, has continued to reap the benefits of its offshore deals. In 2017, the last year before the new tax law cut the corporate rate from 35% to 21%,… -
media mention January 17, 2020 McClatchy: Lifting the Cap on This Tax Break Would Benefit California’s Rich
The figures were developed by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. to project the likely effects if the Democrats’ proposal went into effect in 2022. That’s likely the… -
media mention January 16, 2020 Hartford Business Journal: CT Voices proposes major state tax shift to reverse inequality
And creation of a new Child Tax Credit could provide poor and middle-income residents — even those earning nearly $500,000 per year — as much as $800 to $1,550 on… -
media mention January 16, 2020 The Colorado Sun: Colorado progressives have a new target in their pursuit of a tax overhaul: the rich. Here’s why.
More progressive taxes aren’t a panacea for income inequality, either. With a top rate of 12.3%, plus a 1% millionaire tax, California has the most progressive tax code in the… -
media mention January 13, 2020 Dallas Morning News: Trump slashed corporate tax rates to 21%, but many companies paid far less than that
Here’s another reason to complain: Many companies aren’t paying even the lower rate. In 2018, the first year under the new law, 379 profitable companies in the Fortune 500 paid… -
media mention January 12, 2020 KTVB.com: Idaho Democratic leaders discuss their top priorities for the 2020 legislative session
The “circuit breaker” would protect seniors and low income homeowners from paying too high of a percentage of their income on property taxes. According to the Institute on Taxation and… -
media mention January 8, 2020 Between the Lines: Trump-GOP Tax Law Ushers in Lowest Corporate Tax Rates in 40 Years
Interview with Matthew Gardner, senior fellow with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, conducted by Scott Harris -
media mention January 6, 2020 Inside Sources: Creating an Economy That Works for All Starts With Repealing the Trump Tax Law
While some Americans received a tax cut during the 2018 filing season, it was nowhere enough to substantially improve their lives. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy warns, “The few… -
media mention September 26, 2019 Bloomberg: Sanders, Warren Compete for Who Can Tax Billionaires the Most
“We’re seeing such a dramatic change in the debate,” Steve Wamhoff, the director of federal tax policy at the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said. “There is a… -
media mention September 24, 2019 Contra Costa Times: New sales tax proposal for transportation work gets Contra Costa supervisors’ blessing
According to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, low-income families spend about three quarters of their income on items that are subject to sales taxes while… -
media mention September 24, 2019 Louisville Courier Journal: Scholarship Tax Credits Are Private School Vouchers and Tax Shelters for the Wealthy
In a 2017 analysis, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy took a look at how “scholarship tax credit” programs impacted the budgets of the 17 states where they had… -
media mention September 19, 2019 New Internationalist: Why is Public Money Propping up Fossil Fuels?
Meanwhile, some countries are heading in precisely the wrong direction: over the next five years, the UK’s oil industry is set to receive $6.2 billion more than it pays in… -
media mention September 18, 2019 KOAT: How Migrant Workers Pay Taxes
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reports that in 2017, such workers paid $1.1 billion in personal income taxes, which can often help strengthen an immigration case. Read more -
media mention September 18, 2019 Newark Star-Ledger: Cory Booker’s New Tax Plan Takes a Cue from … Ronald Reagan?
Booker’s capital gains tax plan is aimed at richer residents. Currently, capital gains are taxed at 23.8 percent compared to a top rate for earned income of 37 percent. And… -
media mention September 13, 2019 MarketWatch: Here’s What 2020 Democrats Have Said about Universal Basic Income
Harris’s proposal would cost more than $270 billion in 2020, according to an estimate by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Read more -
media mention September 12, 2019 KTVZ: Wyden Unveils Tax Reform Proposal
Alan Essig, Executive Director, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: “The term ‘anti-deferral accounting’ probably means little to most Americans now, but the idea, proposed by Senator Wyden today, has… -
media mention September 8, 2019 Detroit Free Press: Trump’s Tax Cuts Are Helping the Wealthy. Here’s How to Help Everyone Else
This stark bait-and-switch was on full display with the 2017 “Tax Cuts and Jobs” Act (TCJA). Billed as a way to help workers and create jobs, the federal tax law… -
media mention September 7, 2019 OpEd News: Another Cruel–Irony The Homeless Pay for their Homelessness
A cursory look at the tax numbers blow the conservative’s tax mythmaking apart. A 2017 study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that the poorest of the… -
media mention September 6, 2019 Forbes: Corporate America’s Promise To Focus Less On Profits Will Ring Hollow If We Can’t Tax The Rich
As Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, puts it in a blog, the joint statement likely reflects more of a fear of shifting… -
media mention September 6, 2019 The American Prospect: The Republican War on the Capital Gains Tax
Also like George W. Bush, Trump has governed like a bog-standard conservative, with only tax cuts and deregulation to show for his first few years. Only one major piece of… -
media mention September 5, 2019 Common Dreams: Corporations Getting to Zero With GOP’s Inside Help on Tax Avoidance
Given the lack of transparency in corporate reporting, it is hard to tell how Aircastle’s strategies compare to those used by other companies. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy… -
blog September 4, 2019 Why Local Jurisdictions’ Heavy Reliance on Fines and Fees Is a Tax Policy Issue
The exposé (Addicted to Fines: Small Towns Are Dangerously Dependent) raises two important issues that policymakers have the power to address. One, lack of revenue at the local level is linked to a broader challenge with state tax systems. Two, fines and fees often entrap lower-income people in a cycle of debt and, in some jurisdictions, ultimately criminalize poverty by casting unpaid fines as misdemeanor crimes.
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media mention September 4, 2019 Kansas City Star: Is There a Property Tax Fix for Next Year?
“Circuit breakers help offset the unfairness of a regressive property tax by identifying the individual taxpayers for whom property taxes are most burdensome and reducing their tax to a manageable… -
media mention September 4, 2019 Press Herald: Think Tank Says Maine Has Reached ‘Tax Fairness’ Milestone
The center cited a 2018 report by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy that said only five states and the District of Columbia had tax codes in… -
media mention August 31, 2019 The Capital Times: Labor Report Chronicles Severe Decline of Unions in Wisconsin
On the gap between rich and poor, the report cites an Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy analysis that shows that the top 1% of Wisconsin earners pay and average…