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media mention November 19, 2018 Daily Beast: Dear Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats: Why Are You Embracing Trickle-Down Economics?
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has found that from 2000 to 2018, the richest 20 percent of Americans have enjoyed 65 percent of all the tax cuts, with… -
media mention November 17, 2018 Splinter: House Democrats Balk at Prospect of Being Good
That is a disastrous idea. Alan Essig, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, noted the rule “could make it difficult, as a practical matter, to raise… -
media mention November 16, 2018 Lexington Herald Leader: Kentucky’s New Tax Favors for the Wealthy Won’t Spur the Economy. They Will Worsen Inequality.
Income inequality is soaring in an economy where the winners increasingly take all. The wealthiest one percent of Kentuckians make 94 times more a year on average than the bottom… -
media mention November 16, 2018 Slate: House Democrats Are Already Pursuing a Dumb Tax Stunt, and the Left Is Very Annoyed
But then, tucked at the bottom of page five, there’s an item that’s already setting off alarm bells across the left. The rule—endorsed by Pelosi and Richard Neal, the top… -
media mention November 16, 2018 Washington Post: Democrats Face Early Division in Rules over Taxes
The richest fifth of taxpayers are those who make more than $108,000 annually, said Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Some… -
media mention November 16, 2018 Wyo File: Why Are We Footing the Bill for Billionaires?
he question, then, will be: Who pays? That question — “Who pays?” — is also at the center of a report released last month by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on… -
media mention November 16, 2018 Bloomberg: U.S. Companies Flee No-Tax Caribbean Havens after EU Crackdown
Facebook Inc. has said it plans to almost triple its workforce in Singapore. The social media giant only reports Irish and Singapore subsidiaries, according to a 2017 study by the… -
blog November 16, 2018 House Democrats Falter with Proposed Rule to Restrict Tax Hikes
Democratic leaders have proposed rules to be adopted in the next Congress, and many of them, such as eliminating the requirement for “dynamic scoring,” are very sensible. But one of the proposed rules is problematic because it would make it harder to raise revenue.
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media mention November 14, 2018 CBS News: Can New York Make Back Its Amazon Investment
Opponents of corporate subsidies said Amazon’s choices prove taxpayer incentives matter much less than advertised. “[A]ccess to an educated workforce and high-quality public amenities are what drive business location decisions… -
media mention November 14, 2018 Real News Network: Even for Local Taxes, the Rich Pay Far Less Than the Poor
Dylan Grundman, an ITEP senior policy analyst, discusses Who Pays. -
media mention November 12, 2018 Yahoo! Finance: How Trump’s Tax Cuts Hurt the GOP in America’s Wealthy Suburbs
Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told Yahoo Finance that the same story has been playing out across the country. “I think Californians and… -
media mention November 7, 2018 Washington Post: In blow to liberal efforts, voters across the country reject tax increases. (California is the exception.)
North Carolina voters, for instance, approved a change to their state constitution bringing down the maximum allowable tax rate from 10 percent to 7 percent. That will effectively only spare… -
media mention November 6, 2018 Governing: Voters Lower Cap on Income Tax in North Carolina
Still, many worry that locking down North Carolina’s income tax rates will hamstring future policymakers’ ability to raise revenue. North Carolina is one of a handful of states that has… -
media mention November 6, 2018 Washington Post: Threat of Arizona Tax Measure Brings Together Liberals, Koch Brothers
(Meg Wiehe, a tax specialist at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, argued the sales tax is passed on to the consumers and that these businesses are not “double… -
blog November 6, 2018 Amazon HQ2 Finalists Should Disclose the Financial Incentives They Promised
The Crystal City and Long Island City subsidy offers are among the many Amazon HQ2 bids that remain completely hidden. Citizens have no idea what their elected officials have promised to a company headed by the richest person on earth.
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media mention November 4, 2018 The Hill: IRS Sparks New Fight Over School Donations
However, other groups at the hearing, including representatives of public schools and the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), defended the application of the IRS guidance to the… -
news release October 17, 2018 Poorest 20 Percent Pays a 50 Percent Higher Effective State and Local Tax Rate than the Top 1 Percent
A comprehensive 50-state study released today by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) finds that most state and local tax systems tax low- and middle-income households at significantly higher rates than wealthy taxpayers, with the lowest-income households paying an average of 50 percent more of their income in taxes than the very rich.
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media mention October 3, 2018 Fiscal Times: What Trump’s Family Finances Tell Us About the Tax System
“The key takeaway,” said Alan Essig, director of the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, “is that the wealthy and powerful abide by a different set of rules than… -
media mention October 3, 2018 The New Yorker: The Trump Family’s Tax Dodging Is Symptomatic of a Larger Problem
This experience points to an enduring scandal that goes well beyond the Trumps. “The key takeaway from the New York Times article . . . is that the wealthy and powerful abide by… -
media mention October 2, 2018 The Post and Courier: Some Valuable Downtown Charleston Land Now Comes with Tax Breaks
“Even if the tax breaks drive some new investment into low-income areas, this does not guarantee that these investments will ultimately benefit low-income families within the opportunity zones,” said the… -
media mention October 1, 2018 Politico: Morning Tax
Today also marks 25 years since the last federal gas tax increase, which was raised to its current 18.3 cents per gallon in 1993. Plenty of people have talked about… -
media mention September 26, 2018 NJ.com: Murphy Pushes Plan to Save Property Tax Breaks
Only residents of New York, Connecticut, and California deduct more from federal taxes than New Jerseyans, according the progressive Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Most of the states hit… -
media mention September 25, 2018 Law360: Permanent Tax Cuts Favor Richest in All But Three States
The second round of tax cuts passed Thursday and Friday by the U.S. House of Representatives would overwhelmingly favor the richest Americans, except for those in three high-tax states, according… -
media mention September 21, 2018 Bloomberg BNA: Understanding the Post-Tax Cuts Buybacks Surge: A Primer
But Matt Gardner, a senior fellow at the liberal-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said the anger over buybacks stems from the idea that, with the passage of the… -
media mention September 21, 2018 Chicago Magazine: Illinois Is a Few Elections Away From a Graduated Income Tax
Illinois has one of the most regressive tax systems in the nation — and politicians are taking notice. Under our system, the burden of taxation falls disproportionately on those least able to pay…