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media mention November 7, 2017 New York Times: Republican Plan Would Raise Taxes on Millions
Few independent economists find evidence to support that claim. Analyses published since the plan was introduced last week have consistently found that some middle-class families would see their taxes go… -
media mention November 7, 2017 New York Times: Republican Tax Rewrite Helps Some Millionaires but Hurts Other
The independent Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy said on Monday that the top 1 percent of income earners, those who make just under $500,000 a year or more, would… -
media mention November 7, 2017 Washington Post: Welcome to the New Gilded Age
As the corporate welfare is doled out, the same bill widens the gap between the rich and everybody else. The liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy concluded that the… -
media mention November 7, 2017 Washington Post: No Doubt About Who Wins Under GOP Tax Proposal
In another study, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy finds: The middle 20 percent of income-earners in America, the group that is quite literally the “middle-class,” would receive 10… -
media mention November 6, 2017 Mother Jones: New Estimate Confirms That Republican Tax Plan Favors the Very, Very Rich
Here’s another estimate of who gets what from the Republican tax plan. This one is from the Institute on Taxation and Public Policy: This is fairly close to the estimate… -
media mention November 6, 2017 Australian Broadcasting Corp: The Surprising Journey Your Money Takes after Buying a Pair of Nikes
Tax activists ask why it is that Australia makes $2 in profit from that $100 but Nike in America makes about $14 in profit. “That’s a pretty good indication that… -
media mention November 6, 2017 New York Magazine: The Richest One Percent of America Gets Half the Trump Tax Cuts
Well, now the House GOP has filled in all the missing details, and the result … would overwhelmingly benefit the rich. An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic… -
news release November 6, 2017 New Analysis: Wealthy Will Receive a Growing Share of Tax Cuts in House Tax Plan Over Time
A national and 50-state distributional analysis of the House tax plan released late last week reveals that not only would the wealthiest 1 percent receive the greatest share of the total tax cut in year one, but their share would grow over time due to phase-ins of tax cuts that mostly benefit the rich and the eventual elimination or erosion in value of provisions that benefit low- and middle-income taxpayers.
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media mention November 5, 2017 Salon: The Election Is All About Casting Aside Trumpism
In New Jersey, undocumented immigrants paid close to $600 million in state and local taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. In 2013, analysts at the Social… -
media mention November 4, 2017 Huffington Post: Trump’s Exit From Anti-Corruption Pact Helps Big Oil Hide How Much It Pays In US Taxes
The secrecy underscores the generous subsidies and tax credits afforded to the oil and gas industry. Nearly half of all untapped oil reserves in the U.S. would be unprofitable without… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Roll Call: Tax ID Used by Immigrants Targeted in GOP Tax Bill
Meg Wiehe, deputy director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said the provision would harm more than 5.1 million children — the majority of whom are U.S. citizens… -
media mention November 3, 2017 CNNMoney: Broadcom Moving Legal Headquarters Back to U.S.
Matthew Gardner, a fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, pointed to several additional reasons Broadcom might want change its address. Broadcom is in the middle of a… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Marketplace: Key Question on The GOP Tax Plan: What’s Your ZIP code?
ITEP Research Director Carl Davis talks to Marketplace about the state and local tax deduction. Read more or listen -
media mention November 3, 2017 Fortune: Did You Catch the Huge Loophole in the GOP Tax Plan? The Rich Sure Did.
Following in an excerpt from an op-ed by Alan Essig published in Fortune. In September, shortly after the GOP released the initial framework for its so-called middle-class tax plan, multiple… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Mother Jones: Republicans Unveil Huge Corporate Tax Cuts Paid For by Deficit-Spending
Completely repealing the state and local deduction would lead to taxes going up for 1 in six Americans, according to the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. In a high-tax state… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Las Vegas Review Journal: GOP Unveils Tax-Reform Bill That Faces Political Hurdles
Alan Essig, executive director of the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, rejected GOP claims that the bill would help the middle class. “The starting point for tax reform… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Newsweek: Tax Reform Plan Is More Radical Than You Think
Critics note that there are plenty of other ways wealthier earners would do well. “Keeping the top tax rate at 39.6 percent for millionaires is a cosmetic change meant to… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Associated Press: Why Tax Plan Might Not Put US Firms’ Overseas Cash to Work
Apple has more than $230 billion overseas, Microsoft $124 billion, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Returning those overseas profits to America, the Republicans say, would give… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Vox: 2 Winners and 3 Losers from the Republican Tax Bill
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, pulling together assessments from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Tax Policy Center, the Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis,… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Washington Post: Answers to Major Questions about the Republican Tax Plan
Boosting corporate income tax rates and squeezing loopholes would hurt other companies, such as capital intensive industries. Oil and gas companies, for example, take advantage of special depreciation rates, two… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Dallas Morning News: Was Exxon Mobil’s Tax Rate Last Year Really -5.1%?
So, who’s right? “They are both correct,” said Matt Gardner, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “They’re just measuring different things.” Tax breaks, financial reporting rules… -
news release November 2, 2017 Bottom-Line Conclusion about GOP Tax Plan Is the Same After Reviewing More Details
Instead of engaging in thorough, public process that may have yielded real tax reform for middle-class families, lawmakers covertly put together a plan that reserves its biggest benefits for corporations and the wealthy while throwing in a few gimmicks for political cover.
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news release November 1, 2017 Even if Top Marginal Tax Rate Remains 39.6%, GOP Tax Plan Will Still Largely Benefit the Wealthy
Keeping the top tax rate at 39.6 percent for millionaires is a cosmetic change meant to make this tax plan more palatable. Unless tax writers take out other provisions that almost exclusively benefit the highest-income households, millionaires will still benefit most.
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media mention November 1, 2017 Between the Lines: Trickle Down Hoax Central to GOP Tax Reform Plan
Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Matthew Gardner, senior fellow with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, who assesses the winners and losers in the Republican tax reform… -
media mention October 30, 2017 NPR’s On Point: Who Benefits from GOP Tax Plan
We go to the biggest legislative push yet by the president and Republican Congress: to overhaul American taxes. Details slated to be released this week, with a lightning-fast push through…