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media mention October 17, 2017 Bloomberg BNA: Taxes Lost to Offshore Profits Rise to $752B in 2016
The report, released Oct. 17 by the left-leaning U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, “undermines the case for any tax proposal… -
media mention October 13, 2017 New York Times: U.S. and Europe May Collide on Taxing Apple and Amazon
The rulings on Amazon and Apple — which those companies are disputing — are byproducts of a race among governments to lure corporate giants to their shores in the hunt… -
media mention October 11, 2017 FiveThirtyEight: The GOP Had One Big Divide On Health Care. It Has Three On Taxes.
Here’s the problem: The draft Republican plan would raise a lot of people’s taxes. Estimates from the Tax Policy Center suggest that limiting tax deductions and going from seven tax… -
blog October 11, 2017 Middle-Income More Likely Than the Rich to Pay More Under Trump-GOP Tax Plan
The Trump Administration and GOP leaders continue to wrap their multi-trillion tax cut gift to the wealthy in easily refutable rhetoric about boosting the nation’s middle class. Later today, trucks… -
October 10, 2017 Bloomberg BNA: N.Y., N.J., Connecticut Hurt Most If State Deduction Ditched
The White House has said the tax reform framework was crafted with the middle class in mind. However, a report released Oct. 4 by the Institute on Taxation and Economic… -
media mention October 10, 2017 Select State News Coverage of ITEP’s 50-State Analysis of the GOP Tax Proposal
The Sentinel: Trump Tax Even in Harrisburg Will Feature Truckers The Columbus Dispatch: 15% of Ohioans Could See Tax Increase Under GOP Plan KGW Portland: Richest Oregonians Benefit Most from… -
media mention October 7, 2017 Ralph Nader Radio Hour: The Truth About Trump’s Tax Plan
Ralph and Alan Essig, Executive Director of Citizens for Tax Justice break down President Trump’s Tax Reform proposal and insurance expert, Robert Hunter, returns to explain what’s going on with hurricane and… -
media mention October 7, 2017 Electablog: Everything You Need to Know About the Trump Tax Plan
Episode 53 – Everything you need to know about the Trump Tax Scam with special guests Chad Bolt & Lily Batchelder -
news release October 5, 2017 ITEP Statement on House Budget Resolution: Lawmakers Gear up to Give the Public What It Doesn’t Want
Passing a budget is supposed to provide a structure for our elected officials to responsibly manage our nation’s finances and public investments. But that is not the purpose of this budget resolution.
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blog October 5, 2017 The Data Belie the Trump-GOP Tax Cut Rhetoric
The Trump-GOP tax plan is touted as plan for the middle-class but delivers a boon to the wealthy, throws a comparative pittance to everyone else and even includes a dose of tax increases for some middle- and upper-middle-income taxpayers. The data belie the rhetoric.
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October 5, 2017 Bloomberg: GOP Tax Plan Seen Hurting Middle Class in N.Y., 8 Other States
The ITEP report concludes that many of the most affected people would be middle-income and upper-middle income taxpayers. For example, in Maryland, about one-third of those making from $48,700 to… -
October 5, 2017 Washington Post: How Much Will Trump Tax Plan Cost You and Your Wealthiest Neighbors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/10/05/how-the-trump-tax-plan-could-affect-someone-in-your-state-with-your-income/?utm_term=.819c02760361 -
media mention October 5, 2017 Mother Jones: Republicans Are Already Giving Up on a Key Part of Trump’s Tax Plan
For the third time in eight days, a new study has found that President Donald Trump’s tax plan is a major handout to the richest Americans. On Wednesday, the left-leaning Institute on Taxation… -
media mention October 4, 2017 The Washington Monthly: The Republican Tax Cut Framework Is Already in Trouble
The tax cut framework suggests that Republicans will eventually define some corporate tax loopholes to close. They haven’t done so yet because that will unleash a host of corporate lobbyists… -
news release October 4, 2017 50-State Analysis: GOP-Trump Tax Proposal Would Give the Store Away to the Wealthy, Exacerbate the Income Divide
A 50-state analysis of the GOP tax framework reveals the top 1 percent of taxpayers would receive a substantial tax cut while middle- and upper-middle-income taxpayers in many states would… -
media mention October 2, 2017 Bloomberg: Trump Plan Aims New Foreign Tax at Apple, Other Multinationals
Currently the U.S. taxes corporate profits worldwide, no matter where they’re earned. That approach — which makes America unique among developed nations — comes with a large asterisk: Companies can… -
media mention September 30, 2017 Raleigh News & Observer: The Racial Wealth Divide Could Grow with Tax Changes
But that’s assuming nothing changes. If Trump moves forward with the policies he campaigned on, especially his tax “reform” plan, the gap surely grows. Trump’s tax plan is heavily skewed… -
media mention September 28, 2017 On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Totaling Up President Trump’s Tax Overhaul Plan
And now, it’s time for the Trump tax plan. A miracle for the middle class, the president said in Indianapolis yesterday. He’s selling hard. But there are knowns and unknowns… -
media mention September 28, 2017 Salon: Everyone Hates Trump’s Godawful Tax Plan — Except the GOP Donor Class
Wealthy businesses and individuals will benefit from the proposal in other ways as well, including a reduction in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent. On the… -
media mention September 28, 2017 Bloomberg: Stock Traders Celebrate Nonexistent Tax Cuts
Although Republicans say the plan is to reduce the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from the current 35 percent, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that more… -
media mention September 28, 2017 Think Progress: Trump’s Plan Gives Corporate Tax Lobbyists Nearly Everything They Want
Another key corporate giveaway in the proposal would allow multinational corporations to bring accumulated foreign earnings back to the homeland at a low one-time rate, known as a repatriation tax.… -
news release September 27, 2017 ITEP ED on GOP Tax Plan: “There is Something Terribly Wrong with This Picture”
Economically, the rich are doing just fine, yet the GOP is brazenly selling old hat trickle-down economic theories laden with rhetoric about projected economic growth that will benefit working people. Worse, they are doing so even though opinion polling shows the majority of Americans do not want Congress to pass tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
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media mention September 27, 2017 Fox News: Trump, Republicans reveal tax plan: What to know
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy last week slammed Trump’s plan as it said it wouldn’t alleviate financial burdens of the middle class. “Vague promises can’t conceal the hard… -
media mention September 26, 2017 New York Times: Will a Corporate Tax Holiday Give Workers Anything to Cheer?
Apple alone is sitting on an overseas stash of almost $260 billion, according to Bloomberg, while Microsoft has more than $120 billion parked abroad. The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer does not… -
media mention September 25, 2017 New York Times: Nothing Is Too Strange for Cities Wooing Amazon to Build There
Tax policy experts are more skeptical of Amazon’s bidding process and how much cities stand to benefit. “Why are they doing this whole dog and pony show? Amazon wants something…