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media mention January 20, 2018 St. Louis Post-Dispatch: In Assessing the Fairness of Tax Cuts, Don’t Forget Income Inequality
The basic problem, the Post said, was McCaskill’s use of the phrase “in the long run.” Next year, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the vast majority… -
blog January 19, 2018 Olympics-like Bidding for Amazon’s HQ2 Is a PR Stunt Meant to Extract Tax Subsidies
By Greg LeRoy Amazon.com’s announcement of a 20-site “short list” for its second headquarters, or “HQ2” location, is provoking a public backlash that could reshape how economic development is done… -
media mention January 18, 2018 NPR’s All Things Considered: More States Turning To Toll Roads To Raise Cash For Infrastructure
“I think the states over time have lost hope in the federal government enacting a real, long-term infrastructure package” says Carl Davis, research director for the non-partisan Institute on Taxation… -
media mention January 18, 2018 Fortune: States Are Trying to Fix the New Tax Law, But They May Make It Worse
Below is an excerpt of an op-ed that was published in Fortune by ITEP Senior Fellow Steve Wamhoff Two wrongs don’t make a right. But some state officials, incensed by… -
media mention January 18, 2018 New York Times: Apple, Capitalizing on New Tax Law, Plans to Bring Billions in Cash Back to U.S.
By shifting the money under the new terms, Apple has saved $43 billion in taxes, more than any other American company, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy,… -
media mention January 18, 2018 BBC: Apple to Pay $38 Billion on Foreign Cash Pile
Apple is to bring billions of dollars back to the US, and pay a $38bn tax bill as a result. We get analysis from Thomas Brennan, a law professor specialising… -
media mention January 17, 2018 City & State: Cuomo’s Tax Work Arounds Would Be Challenging
Steve Wamhoff, senior fellow for federal tax policy at the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, gave the example that if a person gave $100 to a public radio… -
media mention January 17, 2018 Albany Times-Union: States Release Plans to Shift from Income to Payroll Taxes
But the concept has sparked questions from both sides of the political spectrum. “You are making the state code increasingly complicated and for what?” said Steve Wamhoff, a senior tax… -
media mention January 14, 2018 Charleston Post-Courier: An Abuse of Charitable Giving?
Under the new law, some wealthy South Carolinians may actually make a 37 percent profit, risk-free, by making charitable contributions to Exceptional SC, a nonprofit fund created by the state Legislature to… -
media mention January 12, 2018 New York Times: Walmart’s Bumpy Day: From Wage Increase to Store Closings
Matt Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit research group, said it was difficult to forecast precisely how much Walmart would save. But… -
media mention January 12, 2018 Bloomberg: Trump’s SALT `War’ Revisited: Most Blue Staters Will Get Tax Cut
n blue New Jersey, for instance, the new law will raise taxes on about 285,000 filers earning between $79,890 and $336,620, with a typical hike of about $1,400, according to an… -
media mention January 12, 2018 New York Magazine: California, New Jersey, and New York Designing Workarounds to Blunt GOP Tax Bill Impact
In a memo released in 2011, the Internal Revenue Service gave its blessing for taxpayers to claim federal deductions on those gifts. The combination of a 100 percent state-tax credit… -
media mention January 12, 2018 CNNMoney: How the Federal Tax Overhaul Could Reshape State Budgets
Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said she’s noticed a trend over the past year toward more aggressive taxation of companies and high-income… -
media mention January 12, 2018 USA Today: High-Tax States Plot Ways to Get Around New Limit on Federal Tax Deductions
But a more liberal group, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, reported last year how financial advisers have advertised how taxpayers could make a profit by giving to funds in… -
media mention January 12, 2018 Yahoo Finance: Democrats Downplay Bonuses Employees Are Getting In Wake Of GOP Tax Law
But it’s worth noting that PEPCO, which was acquired by Exelon Corp. in 2016, paid an effective tax rate of negative 27.9 from 2008 to 2015 partly because of various… -
media mention January 12, 2018 Washington Post: Is the Trump Tax Cut Good or Bad for the Middle-Class?
A state-by-state analysis produced by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a liberal-leaning group, show the vast majority will get some kind of tax cut in Missouri in 2019,… -
media mention January 12, 2018 Politico: The Progressive Skepticism on the SALT Run-Arounds:
The progressive skepticism on the SALT run-arounds: The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has a new paper that says it’s understandable why states would try to make sure residents… -
media mention January 12, 2018 Time: Walmart Shocked Employees By Closing Dozens of Sam’s Club Stores. Here’s What We Know
And how much richer will Walmart be in light of the new tax law the company is crediting as the big reason for raises and bonuses for workers? Matt Gardner,… -
blog January 11, 2018 Using Private Debt Collectors as a Substitute for the IRS Is a Bad Deal
If President Trump is indeed a deal maker, then he should dismantle Congress’s decision to rely on private debt collectors as a substitute for the Internal Revenue Service. This decision, championed for years by Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Chuck Schumer, D-New York, is a lousy deal for everyone–American taxpayers, the federal government–except private debt collectors.
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media mention January 9, 2018 The Hill: Why You Shouldn’t Pay Attention to What Companies Say about Their Tax Bills
Following in an excerpt from an op-ed by ITEP Senior Fellow Matthew Gardner that appear in The Hill: A flurry of announcements by corporate giants such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan… -
media mention January 9, 2018 Salon: Apple’s Biggest Innovation Isn’t Gadgets. It’s Dodging Taxes
Why would so many American companies register themselves in the Caymans? Elementary. American tax law allows corporations to defer paying taxes on profits earned overseas, until those profits are repatriated… -
media mention January 9, 2018 The Fiscal Times: More States Are Turning to Toll Roads
Nineteen states have waited a decade or more since last increasing their gas tax rates. Another 13 states have gone at least two decades, and three states — Alaska, Oklahoma and… -
blog January 9, 2018 New Tax Law Allows Affluent Taxpayers to Write off K-12 Private School Tuition
Taxpayers are still learning about the intended and unintended consequences of the major tax overhaul that Republican leaders ramrodded through late last year. One little-noted provision subverts state laws that… -
media mention January 8, 2018 MTPR: Federal Tax Bill Casts Uncertainty on Montana’s Budget
The federal tax bill could result in about another one percent loss, under one of the state’s interpretations of the federal law’s impacts. Meg Wiehe is deputy director the left-leaning… -
media mention January 4, 2018 CBS St. Louis: Metro East Gubernatorial Candidate Wants Progressive Income Tax
Democrat Bob Daiber, currently Madison County’s Regional Superintendent of Schools, claims Illinois’ tax system is fifth most regressive in the nation — citing the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.…