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Trump’s Plan to Vaporize the Economy Through Mass Deportation
September 16, 2024 • By Michael Ettlinger
This op-ed originally appeared in the Boston Globe. What would happen if 22 percent of America’s farmworkers vanished from the workforce? Would workers from across the country flock to the cotton fields of Texas, the sugar fields of Florida, and the peanut farms of Georgia to take low-paying jobs in the blazing heat? Or would […]
ITEP’s Brakeyshia Samms: How Property Tax Circuit Breakers Could Help Chicago
September 12, 2024
ITEP Policy Analyst Brakeyshia Samms discussed property tax circuit breakers at a meeting the city of Chicago’s Committee on Housing and Real Estate on September 11, 2024. You can check out her slides here, and watch the video here (starting around 42:40).
The Center for American Progress Action Fund: Donald Trump Is Lying About Immigrants and Social Security/Medicare
September 9, 2024
Contrary to Donald Trump’s claims, an earned path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants strengthens Social Security and Medicare. Read more.
The Quiet Effort to Make Single Parenthood More Expensive
September 9, 2024 • By Carl Davis
After the dust settles on this year’s election, one of the most pressing issues confronting the next Congress and President will be how to deal with the expiration of the 2017 Trump tax cuts and, more specifically, who will pay for the cost of extending some or all of those cuts. Among the more widely accepted ideas circulating on the right is to raise income taxes on single parents, more than four in five of whom are women and a disproportionate share of whom are people of color.
ITEP’s Carl Davis: Pyramids, Cascades, and the Taxation of Business Inputs
August 26, 2024
ITEP Research Director Carl Davis gave this presentation to the New Mexico Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Committee on August 23, 2024. View the slides here.
Local Tax Trends in 2024
August 14, 2024 • By Kamolika Das
Many cities, counties, and townships across the country are in a difficult, or at least unstable, budgetary position. Localities are responding to these financial pressures in a variety of ways with some charging ahead with enacting innovative reforms like short-term rental and vacancy taxes, and others setting up local tax commissions to study the problem.
Audio: ITEP’s Marco Guzman on Taxes Paid by Texas Undocumented Immigrants
August 6, 2024
Marco appeared on Texas Public Media’s The Source on August 4, 2024. Listen to the clip here.
Audio: ITEP’s Marco Guzman Talks About the Tax Payments of Connecticut’s Undocumented Immigrants
August 1, 2024
CT’s undocumented immigrants pay over $400 million in taxes annually, study finds. Read more or listen here.
Video: ITEP’s Marco Guzman Talks About the Tax Contributions of Virginia’s Undocumented Immigrants
August 1, 2024
Marco Guzman spoke with 13News Now. Watch the clip here.
Audio: ITEP’s Carl Davis Talks About the Tax Contributions of Utah’s Undocumented Immigrants
July 31, 2024
A new study describes states that the tax contributions of undocumented immigrants equate to almost $100 billion, both federally and statewide. Read more or listen here.
States Newsroom: Study Says Undocumented Immigrants Paid Almost $100 Billion in Taxes
July 31, 2024
A new study shows that undocumented immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue in 2022 while many are shut out of the programs their taxes fund. The findings run counter to anti-immigrant rhetoric that undocumented immigrants are “destroying” social programs. Read more.
Video: ITEP’s Marco Guzman on the Tax Contribution of Maine’s Undocumented Immigrants
July 31, 2024
A new national study is shedding light on the economic contributions made by undocumented immigrants in Maine and throughout the United States, WMTW-TV in Maine reports. Watch the clip or read the story here.
Bloomberg: Undocumented Immigrants in US Pay Nearly $100 Billion in Taxes
July 30, 2024
Undocumented immigrants paid almost $100 billion of taxes, underscoring the importance of border policies on the country’s tax collections, according to a new report. Read more.
Study: Undocumented Immigrants Contribute Nearly $100 Billion in Taxes a Year
July 30, 2024 • By ITEP Staff
Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) Immigration policies have taken center stage in public debates this year, but much of the conversation has been driven by emotion, not data. A new in-depth study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy aims to help change that by quantifying how much undocumented immigrants pay in taxes – both […]
USA Today: America’s Billionaires Are Worth a Record $6T. Where Does That Leave the Rest of Us?
July 19, 2024
America’s billionaires are now collectively worth a record $6 trillion. Their wealth has more than doubled since the passage of the landmark Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017. Is that good news, or bad? It depends on whom you ask. Read more.
Improving Refundable Tax Credits by Making Them Immigrant-Inclusive
July 17, 2024 • By Emma Sifre, Marco Guzman
Undocumented immigrants who work and pay taxes but don't have a valid Social Security number for either themselves or their children are excluded from federal EITC and CTC benefits. Fortunately, several states have stepped in to ensure undocumented immigrants are not left behind by the gaps in the federal EITC and CTC. State lawmakers should continue to ensure that immigrants who are otherwise eligible for these tax credits receive them.
New Analysis Details How Corporate Tax Cuts Worsen Economic and Racial Inequality
June 27, 2024 • By ITEP Staff
Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) Corporate tax cuts exacerbate economic and racial disparities, according to a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and Liberation in a Generation that is the first of its kind to analyze the distribution of these cuts across different racial and economic groups. This collaborative report examines the […]
Who Benefits and Who Pays: How Corporate Tax Breaks Drive Inequality
June 27, 2024 • By Emma Sifre, Steve Wamhoff
Corporate tax breaks and corporate tax avoidance significantly contribute to income and racial inequality and largely benefit foreign investors.
Mansion Global: Massachusetts Weighs Mansion Tax on $1 Million-Plus Homes
May 9, 2024
Massachusetts could join the growing number of cities and states with a mansion tax on high-value properties, as it considers a proposal to levy an additional transfer fee on commercial and residential sales above $1 million. Read more.
Economic Policy Institute: The Evolution of the Southern Economic Development Strategy
May 6, 2024
The Southern economic development model has failed to create shared prosperity in the region. In fact, this model was deliberately designed to do the opposite—to extract the labor of Black and brown Southerners as cheaply as possible. This report examines the racist roots of the model and provides the necessary context to challenge the enduring […]
One Legacy of the Trump Tax Law: Big Tax Breaks for Big Corporations
May 2, 2024 • By ITEP Staff
The tax law signed by former President Trump in 2017 has slashed taxes for America’s largest, most profitable corporations, a new analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy shows.
USA Today: Are California’s Taxes Really That High? Not If You’re of ‘Modest Means,’ Report Says
May 1, 2024
Whether it be that all Californians surf, live by the beach or only vote blue, there are a lot of assumptions about residents of the Golden State. Yet a new report is challenging one of the most widely held belief – that Californians shoulder the nation’s highest tax burdens. Read more.
ITEP Comment on Proposed IRS Rule REG-123376-22
April 26, 2024 • By ITEP Staff
Increased information transfer from the IRS would improve the quality of data at the Census Bureau and expand opportunities for tax policy research. This is critical for researchers who rely on Census Bureau data and products to fill the informational gaps present in tax data.
Sacramento Bee: Is California Really a High-Tax State? New Findings Question That Claim
April 25, 2024
Maybe California is not such a high tax state after all — at least for lower income families. “For families of modest means, California is not a high tax state,” says a new study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a liberal Washington research group. Read more.
Illinois Fund Our Futures Coalition: Funding Our Futures: The Equitable Revenue Policies Illinois Families Need to Thrive
April 18, 2024
Read the report here.
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