Blog Archive
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May 17, 2019
Bootstraps Remain an Ineffective Tool for Combatting Poverty -
May 16, 2019
State Rundown 5/16: Tensions Remain High Over Budgets and School Finances in Several States -
May 9, 2019
State Rundown 5/9: Illinois Moves Closer to a Progressive Income Tax -
May 6, 2019
Proponents of Trump Tax Law Cite ITEP with Obvious Lack of Context -
May 1, 2019
State Rundown 5/1: Teacher Uprisings Continue on May Day -
Apr 26, 2019
State Rundown 4/26: Capital Gains Taxes Make Gains and Regressive Proposals Regress -
Apr 25, 2019
ICYMI: A Brief Summary of Our April Blogs and Reports -
Apr 23, 2019
So-Called Opportunity Zones Provide Opportunity for Whom? -
Apr 18, 2019
State Rundown 4/18: It’s Peak Season for State Fiscal Debates -
Apr 17, 2019
States Could Lift Millions of Children Out of Poverty by Enacting State-Level Child Tax Credits -
Apr 15, 2019
Some Helpful Facts for Tax Day 2019 -
Apr 12, 2019
$4.3 Billion in Rebates, Zero-Tax Bill for 60 Profitable Corps Directly Related to Loopholes -
Apr 12, 2019
The IRS Could Calculate Taxes for the Vast Majority of Taxpayers—But a Bipartisan Measure Would Ban It -
Apr 12, 2019
You Can't Tax Stolen Land -
Apr 11, 2019
State Rundown 4/11: An Estate Tax Win, Opioid Progress, and Teacher Uprising Updates -
Apr 10, 2019
The Working Families Tax Relief Act Would Boost Incomes and Economic Security for Workers and Children -
Apr 4, 2019
State Rundown 4/4: Ohio Gas Tax and Maryland Minimum Wage Get Needed Updates -
Apr 4, 2019
Most States Have Raised Gas Taxes in Recent Years -
Apr 3, 2019
Making a Case to Tax the Rich -
Apr 2, 2019
Sweeping Reform Would Tax Capital Gains Like Ordinary Income -
Apr 1, 2019
What to Watch for When the IRS Releases Its SALT Workaround Regulations -
Mar 29, 2019
ICYMI: A Brief Summary of Our March Blogs and Reports -
Mar 27, 2019
The Trump Tax Law Further Tilted an Already Uneven Playing Field -
Mar 27, 2019
State Rundown 3/27: Spring Bringing Smart State Tax Policy So Far -
Mar 25, 2019
Corporate Profits 🠉, Corporate Federal Tax Collections 🠋 -
Mar 22, 2019
Unfair State Tax Codes Also Exacerbate Racial Inequity -
Mar 15, 2019
Rep. Doggett and Sen. Whitehouse Reintroduce Bill to End Offshore Tax Avoidance -
Mar 14, 2019
State Rundown 3/14: Tax Fairness Proposed in Illinois -
Mar 11, 2019
North Dakota Senate Should Put the Freeze on House Tax-Cut Plan -
Mar 6, 2019
State Rundown 3/6: March Tax Debates Contain Sanity Amid Usual Madness -
Mar 6, 2019
How State Tax Systems Worsen the Economic Divide - in Charts -
Feb 27, 2019
State Rundown 2/27: Temperatures and Tax Fights Continue to Polarize -
Feb 26, 2019
Overdue Gas Tax Hikes are Back on the Agenda in Statehouses -
Feb 20, 2019
State Rundown 2/20: February and Regressive Tax Cuts, The “Meanest Moons of Winter” -
Feb 19, 2019
Gaps in Sales Tax Collection Linger at Amazon.com and Among Other E-Retailers -
Feb 14, 2019
State Rundown 2/14: We ♥ Taxes! -
Feb 13, 2019
Fact-Checking on Trump Tax Law Needs a Fact Check -
Feb 13, 2019
Fear, Not Facts: Netflix Misleads Media Reporting on Corporate Tax Avoidance -
Feb 13, 2019
SALT Deduction Cap Should be Reformed, Not Repealed -
Feb 13, 2019
Amazon in Its Prime: Doubles Profits, Pays $0 in Federal Income Taxes -
Feb 11, 2019
A Tale of Two States: How State Tax Systems Perpetuate Income Inequality -
Feb 7, 2019
Trends We’re Watching in 2019 -
Feb 7, 2019
Trends We're Watching in 2019: Attempting to Double Down on Failed Trickle-Down Regressive Tax Cuts -
Feb 7, 2019
Trends We're Watching in 2019: Cannabis Tax Implementation and Reform -
Feb 7, 2019
Trends We’re Watching in 2019: Consumption Taxes: the Good, Bad and the Ugly -
Feb 7, 2019
Trends We're Watching in 2019: Addressing Lingering Federal Conformity Questions and Opportunities -
Feb 7, 2019
Trends We're Watching in 2019: Raising Revenue and Spending Surpluses to Prioritize Critical Public Investments -
Feb 7, 2019
Trends We're Watching in 2019: The Use of Targeted Tax Breaks to Help Address Poverty and Inequality -
Feb 5, 2019
New ITEP Report Shows How Congress Can Meet Public Demand for Progressive Taxes -
Feb 5, 2019
Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Taxes -
Feb 1, 2019
Senator Sanders Proposes to Reform the Estate Tax -
Jan 31, 2019
State Rundown 1/31: Governors and Teachers Dominate Headlines, Much More in Fine Print -
Jan 30, 2019
Data for the Win: Advocating for Equitable State and Local Tax Policy (Webinar) -
Jan 30, 2019
Why We Should Talk about Progressive Taxes Despite Billionaires' Objections -
Jan 24, 2019
State Rundown 1/24: States Reflect on MLK’s Dream and Teacher Uprisings -
Jan 24, 2019
Yes, It’s Time to Talk about Progressive Taxes, Even a Wealth Tax -
Jan 23, 2019
Thoughts about a Federal Wealth Tax and How It Could Raise Revenue, Address Income Inequality -
Jan 23, 2019
Cannabis Tax Debates are Ramping Up; Here’s What We’ve Learned from Five Years of Cannabis Taxation Thus Far -
Jan 18, 2019
State Rundown 1/18: Governors’ Speeches Kick Off State Fiscal Debates -
Jan 17, 2019
How States Can Help Shut Down Tax Havens by Cracking Down on Profit Shifting -
Jan 10, 2019
State Rundown 1/10: States Should Resolve to Pursue Equitable Tax Options -
Jan 9, 2019
A New Quick-Start Guide to “Who Pays?” -
Jan 8, 2019
How to Think About the 70% Top Tax Rate Proposed by Ocasio-Cortez (and Multiple Scholars) -
Dec 24, 2018
ITEP's 12 Days of Tax Policy -
Dec 20, 2018
ITEP Winter Reading (and Listening) List -
Dec 19, 2018
State Rundown 12/19: Time to Rest and Recharge for Big Year Ahead -
Dec 17, 2018
Five Things to Know on the One-Year Anniversary of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act -
Dec 12, 2018
End-of-Year Tax Measure Would Give Deficit-Financed Tax Cuts to Wealthy Families and Corporations -
Dec 7, 2018
Morgan Stanley Report Confirms Tax Cut Promises Made Are Promises Unkept -
Dec 5, 2018
State Rundown 12/5: Familiar Questions Returning to Fore as 2019 Approaches -
Dec 4, 2018
Housing for All? Developers Bulldoze Taxpayers in Affordable Housing Debate -
Nov 29, 2018
New Legislation Aims to Change Tax Law Provisions That Incentivize Outsourcing -
Nov 27, 2018
GM Announcement Confirms Tax Cuts Don't Prevent, May Encourage Layoffs -
Nov 19, 2018
New ITEP Report on Depreciation Breaks: The Most Important Tax Giveaway that People Don’t Know About -
Nov 16, 2018
House Democrats Falter with Proposed Rule to Restrict Tax Hikes -
Nov 16, 2018
State Rundown 11/16: Election Results Clarify Agendas as Real Work Begins -
Nov 13, 2018
Three Tax Takeaways on Amazon’s Expansion Announcement -
Nov 13, 2018
15 Companies Report an Average 10.4 Percentage Point Drop in Effective Tax Rates Since 2017 -
Nov 8, 2018
State Rundown 11/8: Top Tax Takeaways from Tuesday -
Nov 8, 2018
The Post-Midterms Tax Policy Outlook: Small Ball and Real Tax Reform Debate -
Nov 6, 2018
Amazon HQ2 Finalists Should Disclose the Financial Incentives They Promised -
Nov 5, 2018
New Report Finds Tax Transparency Is Not Just Ethical: It Has a Real Fiscal Impact -
Nov 5, 2018
Post-TCJA, International Corporate Tax System Still Leaking Hundreds of Billions in Profits -
Oct 31, 2018
State Rundown 10/31: Trick or Treat Advice to Savor for Tonight -
Oct 25, 2018
State Rundown 10/25: Ballot Initiative Special -
Oct 24, 2018
Shaking up TCJA: How a Proposed New Credit Could Shift Federal Tax Cuts from the Wealthy and Corporations to Working People -
Oct 23, 2018
Tax Policies Have Increased Inequality, and So Would Entitlement Cuts -
Oct 18, 2018
Lawmakers Want Working People to Foot the Bill for Top-Heavy Tax Cuts -
Oct 18, 2018
State Rundown 10/18: States Learn “Who Pays”! -
Oct 17, 2018
New Report Finds that Upside-down State and Local Tax Systems Persist, Contributing to Inequality in Most States -
Oct 17, 2018
Low-Tax States Are Often High-Tax for the Poor -
Oct 12, 2018
State Rundown 10/12: Local Jurisdictions Fighting for Revenues, Independence -
Oct 10, 2018
'Financial Exposure' Showcases Tax Misconduct by Powerful Individuals and Corporations -
Oct 4, 2018
State Rundown 10/4: Ballot/Election Season in Full Swing -
Oct 2, 2018
Twelve States Offer Profitable Tax Shelter to Private School Voucher Donors; IRS Proposal Could Fix This -
Sep 27, 2018
So-Called “Universal Savings Accounts” in Tax Cuts 2.0 Are a Giveaway to the Most Affluent Taxpayers -
Sep 26, 2018
State Rundown 9/26: States Cleaning Up from Florence, Gearing Up for November -
Sep 25, 2018
An Unhappy Anniversary: Federal Gas Tax Reaches 25 Years of Stagnation -
Sep 20, 2018
Oxfam Report Finds Pharmaceuticals Profiteering Off Crises in Developing Countries -
Sep 20, 2018
State Tax Codes Can Help Mitigate Poverty and Impact of Federal Tax Cuts on Low- and Middle-Income Families -
Sep 20, 2018
IRS Reopens Tax Loophole Sought by Sen. Toomey, but it Won’t Work in Pennsylvania -
Sep 19, 2018
State Rundown 9/19: Don’t Call it a Comeback -
Sep 12, 2018
Observations from Census Data on Poverty and Income -
Sep 12, 2018
We Crunched Some Numbers to Show What Tax Reform for Working People Really Looks Like -
Sep 11, 2018
Repealing the Federal Tax Law’s Cap on State and Local Tax (SALT) Deductions Is No Improvement -
Sep 10, 2018
Latest GOP Tax Package Is Also Skewed Toward the Rich -
Sep 7, 2018
New Study Confirms Offshore Earnings are Flowing into Stock Buybacks, Not Jobs and Investments -
Aug 28, 2018
ITEP Resources on Proposed SALT Workaround Regulations -
Aug 22, 2018
State Rundown 8/22: Wayfair Fallout Could Hit the Pavement Soon -
Aug 16, 2018
State Rundown 8/16: November Ballots and 2019 Debates Coming into Focus -
Aug 15, 2018
1964: Unconditional War on Poverty; 2018: Unconditional War on the Poor -
Aug 10, 2018
How Opportunity Zones Benefit Investors and Promote Displacement -
Aug 9, 2018
Insult to Injury: Why Tax Cuts 2.0 Makes No Sense -
Aug 8, 2018
State Rundown 8/8: States Setting Rules for Upcoming Tax Decisions -
Aug 7, 2018
Updating Sales and Excise Taxes to Reflect Today’s Economy -
Aug 1, 2018
State Rundown 8/1: States Stay Busy During Summer "Break" -
Aug 1, 2018
The Preferential Tax Treatment of Capital Gains Income Should Be Curbed, Not Substantially Expanded -
Jul 24, 2018
The Fight for Education Funding: State Revenue Needs and Responses in 2018 -
Jul 19, 2018
State Rundown 7/19: Wayfair Fallout and Ballot Preparation Dominate State Tax Talk -
Jul 17, 2018
How to Fix the Broken International Corporate Tax Code -
Jul 12, 2018
18 States Will Take Holidays from Sound Tax Policy This Year -
Jul 11, 2018
The Immediate Economic Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Could be Even Less Than Expected -
Jul 10, 2018
Building on Momentum from Recent Years, 2018 Delivers Strengthened Tax Credits for Workers and Families -
Jul 10, 2018
State Rundown 7/10: Budget Brinksmanship and Ballot Battles -
Jul 3, 2018
An Update on State Responses to the Federal Tax Bill -
Jul 2, 2018
ITEP Summer Reading (and Listening) List -
Jun 28, 2018
State Rundown 6/28: Budget Deals Reached in Nick of Time -
Jun 27, 2018
Rigging the System and Poor Shaming (Rightly) Are Incompatible Political Strategies -
Jun 26, 2018
Gas Taxes Rise in Seven States, Including an Historic Increase in Oklahoma -
Jun 22, 2018
What's at Stake in South Carolina's Upcoming Tax Conformity Debate -
Jun 21, 2018
State Rundown 6/21: Wayfair Decision Is Way Fair -
Jun 21, 2018
Supreme Court Decision in Wayfair Is a Leap Forward for Sales Tax Modernization -
Jun 13, 2018
State Rundown 6/13: Budget Crunch Time Sets in as State Fiscal Years Come to Close -
Jun 13, 2018
All Bets are Off: State-Sponsored Sports Betting Isn’t Worth the Risk -
Jun 6, 2018
New Legislation Would Close Significant Offshore Loopholes in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act -
Jun 1, 2018
State Rundown 6/1: Time Is Ripe for Closer Look at Intergovernmental Relations -
May 30, 2018
Facebook Facing Shareholder Scrutiny for Its Offshore Tax Avoidance -
May 24, 2018
As IRS Prepares to Act, Red-State Taxpayers Profit from Use of SALT “Workaround Credits” -
May 24, 2018
New Jersey Policy Perspective: Fast Facts: Proposed Tax Changes Would Bring More Balance to New Jersey’s Tax Code -
May 24, 2018
New Legislation Would End Tax Incentives to Move Jobs and Profits Offshore -
May 23, 2018
State Rundown 5/23: Special Sessions Abound Amid Budget Vetoes, Stalemates, Federal Tax Bill -
May 22, 2018
Most States Have Raised Gas Taxes in Recent Years -
May 21, 2018
Debate Over New Jersey’s Millionaires and ITEP’s Data -
May 17, 2018
State Rundown 5/17: Don't Bet on Legal Sports Betting Solving State Budget Woes -
May 16, 2018
Why Proponents of the Trump-GOP Tax Law Can’t Get their Story Straight -
May 15, 2018
There Is No Evidence That the New Tax Law Is Growing Our Economy or Creating Jobs -
May 15, 2018
NC Teachers’ March on Raleigh and the Tax Cuts that Led Them There -
May 10, 2018
No Work Requirements for the Richest 1 Percent — Most of Their Tax Cuts Are for Unearned Income -
May 9, 2018
State Rundown 5/9: Iowa Digs a New Hole as Other States Try to Avoid or Climb Out of Theirs -
May 9, 2018
New Tax Subsidy for Private K-12 Tuition in Massachusetts Creates a Host of Problems -
May 4, 2018
In the Face of the Trump Administration's Anti-Immigrant Agenda, We Must Rely on Evidence to Highlight the Contributions of and Dispel Myths About Dreamers -
May 4, 2018
Tax Wars: 3 Lessons about Tax Policy from the Star Wars Universe -
May 3, 2018
Under Pressure, Trump Organization Abandons Risky Sales Tax Avoidance Strategy in New York. Will It Face Penalties for Taxes it Did Not Collect? -
May 3, 2018
State Rundown 5/3: Progressive Revenue Solutions to Fiscal Woes Gaining Traction -
May 2, 2018
New UK Law May Shut Down the Biggest Tax Havens — Aside from the U.S. -
May 2, 2018
Apple’s Three-Month Tax Savings under President Trump’s New Tax Law: $1.68 Billion -
May 1, 2018
Newly Unveiled Ballot Initiative Aims to Tax Arizona’s Top 1 Percent to Fund Education -
May 1, 2018
No Need for the MythBusters, the Millionaire Tax Flight Myth is Busted Again -
Apr 27, 2018
State Rundown 4/27: Arbor Day Brings Some Fruitful Tax Developments, Some Shady Proposals -
Apr 27, 2018
Trump Administration’s Spending Priorities Echo Tax Cut Priorities: Punish the Poor and Lavish the Rich -
Apr 26, 2018
15 Companies Report Tax Savings of $6.2 Billion in First Three Months of 2018 -
Apr 20, 2018
State Rundown 12/31/9999: IRS Glitch and Legislative Impasses Extend Tax Season -
Apr 20, 2018
Trends We're Watching in 2018, Part 5: 21st Century Consumption Taxes -
Apr 19, 2018
Congressional Budget Office: New Tax Law Helps Foreign Investors Even More than You Thought -
Apr 16, 2018
Key Takeaways from John Oliver’s Segment on Corporate Tax Avoidance -
Apr 13, 2018
State Rundown 4/13: Teacher Strikes, Special Sessions, Federal Cuts Haunting States -
Apr 11, 2018
ITEP Resources on Amazon and the Online Sales Tax Debate -
Apr 11, 2018
What to Expect if the Supreme Court Allows for Online Sales Tax Collection -
Apr 11, 2018
A Paul Ryan Retrospective: A Decade of Regressive Budget and Tax Plans -
Apr 10, 2018
New ITEP Report: Extension of the Temporary TCJA Provisions Would Be Just as Regressive as TCJA Itself -
Apr 6, 2018
Is the Trump Organization's Sales Tax Avoidance More Aggressive Than Amazon's? -
Apr 5, 2018
State Rundown 4/5: Education Funding Issues Take Center Stage -
Apr 5, 2018
Passing the Buck: Forcing Spending Cuts through a Balanced Budget Amendment -
Apr 4, 2018
Trends We're Watching in 2018, Part 4: Tax Cuts & Tax Shifts -
Apr 3, 2018
Cities Fail to Disclose Tax Incentives in Bids for Amazon’s HQ2 -
Mar 30, 2018
Teachers’ Strikes Are Emblematic of Larger Tax Challenges for States -
Mar 30, 2018
Amazon’s Local, State and Federal Tax Issues Explained -
Mar 30, 2018
State Rundown 3/30: Several Major Tax Debates Will March on into April -
Mar 26, 2018
Trends We’re Watching in 2018, Part 3: Improvements to Tax Credits for Workers and Families -
Mar 26, 2018
Amazon and Other E-Retailers Get a Free Pass from Some Local-Level Sales Taxes -
Mar 23, 2018
Unintended Consequences of the New Tax Bill Keep Cropping Up -
Mar 22, 2018
State Rundown 3/22: Some Spring State Tax Debates in Full Bloom, Others Just Now Surfacing -
Mar 15, 2018
The Public Interest Consensus Against the Tax Extenders -
Mar 14, 2018
State Rundown 3/14: States Turn Fiscal Focus Inward -
Mar 14, 2018
Boeing Paid Tax Rate of 8.4% in Previous Decade, But Trump to Speak About Why It Needed His Corporate Tax Cut -
Mar 12, 2018
Trends We're Watching in 2018, Part 2: State Revenue Shortfalls and the Impact on Education and Other Services -
Mar 9, 2018
Pounds, Dollars, It’s Still Comparative Crumbs for Workers -
Mar 8, 2018
State Rundown 3/8: March Tax Debates "In Like a Lion" -
Mar 5, 2018
Trends We’re Watching in 2018, Part 1: State Responses to Federal Tax Cut Bill -
Mar 2, 2018
Five Ways States Can Recoup Corporations’ Massive Federal Tax Giveaway -
Feb 28, 2018
State Rundown 2/28: February a Long Month for State Tax Debates -
Feb 23, 2018
Why the Minute Federal 529 Provision Has Huge Consequences for States -
Feb 22, 2018
State Rundown 2/22: State Tax Debates Grind On -
Feb 21, 2018
Cuomo’s Tax Overhaul Response Is a Missed Opportunity -
Feb 20, 2018
Why We're Not Eternally Grateful for $1,000 Crumbs -
Feb 15, 2018
Mnuchin’s Not So Grand Stand on the Carried Interest Loophole Explained -
Feb 14, 2018
State Rundown 2/14: To Couple or Not to Couple? -
Feb 14, 2018
A Gas Tax Hike Is the Obvious Answer to Infrastructure Funding -
Feb 14, 2018
GOP Dilemma: Love the Tax Cut, Hate the Agency that Administers It -
Feb 13, 2018
Amazon Inc. Paid Zero in Federal Taxes in 2017, Gets $789 Million Windfall from New Tax Law -
Feb 9, 2018
The More Things Change: PG&E Records a Tenth Straight Year of No Federal Income Taxes -
Feb 9, 2018
How the Latest Budget Deals Expose the Failure of “Tax Reform” -
Feb 8, 2018
State Rundown 2/8: State Responses to Federal Bill Gaining Steam -
Feb 3, 2018
How Much Will Typical Middle-Class Workers Really See Their Paychecks Change? -
Feb 1, 2018
How the U.S. Became a Top Secrecy Jurisdiction -
Jan 31, 2018
State Rundown 1/31: Low-Income Families' Taxes Getting Some Much-Needed Attention -
Jan 31, 2018
How Exxon’s Empty $50 Billion Promise Made Its Way into Trump’s SOTU -
Jan 31, 2018
Fact-Checking Trump’s State of the Union Address on Tax Issues -
Jan 26, 2018
Moody’s and Conservative Economists Agree: The Trump Corporate Tax Cut Is Not Helping Workers -
Jan 26, 2018
Federal Tax Law Will Have Mixed Effect on Taxpayers' State Tax Bills and States’ Revenue -
Jan 25, 2018
IRS Can and Should Block “Charitable Contribution” Schemes -
Jan 25, 2018
State Rundown 1/25: States Begin Tax Debates while Still Racing to Understand Federal Bill -
Jan 24, 2018
It’s a Small Bonus After All -
Jan 19, 2018
Olympics-like Bidding for Amazon's HQ2 Is a PR Stunt Meant to Extract Tax Subsidies -
Jan 18, 2018
Apple Gambled on Congressional Spinelessness on Tax Policy— and Won -
Jan 17, 2018
State Rundown 1/17: Budget Deficits, Online Sales Tax, and More -
Jan 17, 2018
Repealing, or Working Around, the Cap on State and Local Tax Deductions Would Make the Trump-GOP Tax Law Even More Unfair -
Jan 16, 2018
We Must Protect Dreamers -
Jan 12, 2018
The Problems with State Workarounds to the Federal SALT Deduction -
Jan 12, 2018
The Walmart Smiley Face Is Lying: Corporate Tax Cuts Are Not Causing Pay Raises and Bonuses -
Jan 12, 2018
State Rundown 1/12: Tax Cut Tunnel Vision Threatens to Bore State Budget Holes Even Deeper -
Jan 12, 2018
Walmart’s Minimum Wage Hike: Did the Tax System Make Them Do It? -
Jan 11, 2018
Using Private Debt Collectors as a Substitute for the IRS Is a Bad Deal -
Jan 10, 2018
New Tax Breaks for Craft Beer Are a Drop in the Barrel: 76 percent of Tax Bill’s Beer Tax Cut Goes to a Handful of the Biggest Producers -
Jan 9, 2018
New Tax Law Allows Affluent Taxpayers to Write off K-12 Private School Tuition -
Jan 4, 2018
State Rundown 1/4: Will States Show Resolve in a Challenging Year? -
Dec 22, 2017
Corporate America, You Just Got a $650 Billion Tax Cut! What Are You Going to Do Next? -
Dec 20, 2017
State Rundown 12/20: The Days Get Longer from Here -
Dec 19, 2017
Final Tax Bill Hits Parents of College Students Harder than Other Taxpayers -
Dec 19, 2017
The Trump-GOP’s Big Giveaway to Multinational Corporations -
Dec 18, 2017
Corker Claims Provisions Benefiting Him Could Not Have Changed His Vote Because He Never Read the Bill -
Dec 17, 2017
Final GOP-Trump Bill Still Forces California and New York to Shoulder a Larger Share of Federal Taxes Under Final GOP-Trump Tax Bill; Texas, Florida, and Other States Will Pay Less -
Dec 15, 2017
Final Tax Bill Reported to Provide Senator Rubio With Much Smaller Improvement for Children than He Demanded -
Dec 15, 2017
GOP Leaders Scrounge Up Money to Lower Top Tax Rate for the Rich But Not to Help Low-Income Working Families with Children -
Dec 14, 2017
ITEP Resources for the Tax Reform Debate -
Dec 14, 2017
Private Schools Donors Likely to Win Big from Expanded Loophole in Tax Bill -
Dec 13, 2017
State Rundown 12/13: Supermajority Laws Considered in Some States Even as They Confound Others -
Dec 13, 2017
Latest “Compromise” for Tax Plan Is Even Worse than Previous Proposals, Would Reduce the Plans’ “Losers” by Less than 17,000 Taxpayers -
Dec 13, 2017
Parents of College Students: The Tax Plans’ Losers that No One Is Talking About -
Dec 13, 2017
All I Want for Christmas is a Clean DREAM Act -
Dec 12, 2017
Who Is “America First” Under the Tax Plan? The Rich First, Foreign Investors Second, Then the Rest of Us. -
Dec 12, 2017
Treasury’s 1-Page Memo Reasserts False Claims that Tax Cuts Largely Pay for Themselves — But Only When Accompanied by Spending Cuts -
Dec 10, 2017
“Compromises” Under Discussion for the State and Local Tax Deduction Do Not Fix Flawed Tax Bills -
Dec 10, 2017
Even with Potential SALT Compromises, Senate Bill Forces California and New York to Shoulder a Larger Share of Federal Taxes While Texas, Florida, and Other States Will Pay Less -
Dec 7, 2017
State Rundown 12/7: States Try to Plan While Awaiting Federal Tax Decisions -
Dec 7, 2017
Charitable, Property Tax, and Mortgage Interest Deductions Would Be Wiped Out for Two-Thirds of Current Claimants Under Congressional Tax Plans -
Dec 4, 2017
They Can’t Help Themselves: GOP Leaders Reveal True Intent Behind Tax Overhaul -
Dec 1, 2017
Senate “Pass-Through” Deduction Threatens to Undermine State Tax Systems -
Dec 1, 2017
New ITEP Report Explains How Tax Reform Should Eliminate Breaks for Real Estate Investors Like Trump -
Dec 1, 2017
Senator Collins Pushes Hard for a Property Tax Deduction that Very Few of Her Constituents Will Be Able to Claim -
Nov 30, 2017
Republican Senators Debate Size of “Pass-Through” Break, But Proposed Compromises Will Make No Difference to Anyone Who Is Not Well-Off -
Nov 30, 2017
A Corporate Tax Cut Would Benefit Coastal Investors, Not the Heartland -
Nov 30, 2017
Lawmakers Are Allowing Monied Interests to Trump the Voices of Their Constituents -
Nov 30, 2017
Chained CPI Would Raise Everyone’s Personal Income Taxes in the Future, Would Hurt the Poor Right Away -
Nov 29, 2017
State Rundown 11/29: Thanksgiving Leftovers Edition -
Nov 22, 2017
Mick Mulvaney and the 19 States Paying Higher Taxes Under the Senate Tax Bill -
Nov 21, 2017
The Senate Tax Plan’s Big Giveaway to Multinational Corporations -
Nov 21, 2017
Resources for Your Thanksgiving Dinner Tax Policy Debates -
Nov 14, 2017
The Bottom 40 Percent Has Grown Poorer, So Why Are Tax Cut Plans Focused on the Rich and Corporations? -
Nov 14, 2017
Shopping for a Tax Haven: How Nike and Apple Accelerated Their Tax Avoidance Strategies, according to the Paradise Papers -
Nov 14, 2017
House Tax Plan Offers an Exceptionally Bad Deal for California, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland -
Nov 13, 2017
House Tax Bill Would Put Property Tax Deduction Out of Reach for Most Households -
Nov 9, 2017
Flawed Data from House Leadership Attempts to Hide Tax Hikes Under Proposal -
Nov 8, 2017
State Rundown 11/8: Online Sales Tax Fight and Tax Subsidy Absurdity Go National -
Nov 8, 2017
House Tax Plan Would Make Offshore Tax Avoidance Substantially Worse -
Nov 6, 2017
House Tax Bill Would Reserve Charitable Giving Subsidies for a Small Subset of Wealthier Households -
Nov 5, 2017
Mortgage Interest Deduction Wiped Out for 7 in 10 Current Claimants Under House Tax Plan -
Nov 3, 2017
House Plan Slashes SALT Deductions by 88%, Even with $10,000 Property Tax Deduction -
Nov 1, 2017
House Tax Plan Will Keep 39.6% Top Rate, But That Won’t Matter for Most Types of Income Going to the Rich -
Nov 1, 2017
State Rundown 11/1: Connecticut Balances Budget, Leaves Tax Code Out of Whack -
Oct 31, 2017
Trump Administration Might Propose a Long-Overdue Gas Tax Increase -
Oct 30, 2017
The Manufacturing Deduction Is a Case Study in Tax Policy Gone Wrong -
Oct 25, 2017
State Rundown 10/25: Marijuana Taxes a Bright Spot amid Underperforming State Revenues -
Oct 25, 2017
The Framework’s Tax Increases and Tax Cuts by State -
Oct 24, 2017
GOP Tax Plan Will Mainly Benefit Millionaires Even If Top Rate Remains 39.6 Percent -
Oct 20, 2017
The Jig Is Up: Republican Budget Resolution Finally Admits That Deficit Will Soar Under GOP Tax Plan -
Oct 19, 2017
The Dishonest Pitch for Trump-GOP Tax Cuts -
Oct 18, 2017
The Corporate Tax Code is in Dire Shape, But Trump-GOP Plan Would Make It Worse -
Oct 18, 2017
State Rundown 10/18: Ballot Initiative Efforts Being Finalized -
Oct 18, 2017
Tax Foundation Updates Its Problematic Wishlist for State Tax Policy -
Oct 13, 2017
State Rundown 10/13: Soda Taxes, Business Subsidies, and Gas Taxes Considered in Several States -
Oct 11, 2017
Middle-Income More Likely Than the Rich to Pay More Under Trump-GOP Tax Plan -
Oct 5, 2017
The Data Belie the Trump-GOP Tax Cut Rhetoric -
Oct 4, 2017
State Rundown 10/4: Wildfires in Montana and Tax Cuts in Kansas Wreak Budget Havoc -
Sep 29, 2017
Indiana’s Tax Cuts Under Mike Pence Are Not a Model for the Nation -
Sep 28, 2017
State Rundown 9/28: Wisconsin Budget Finalized, Oklahoma Special Session Underway -
Sep 25, 2017
State Rundown 9/25: No Rest for the Weary as State Tax and Budget Debates Wind Down, Ramp Up -
Sep 15, 2017
Poverty is Down, But State Tax Codes Could Bring It Even Lower -
Sep 14, 2017
Census Data Reveal Modest Gains for Working People; GOP Tax Overhaul Could Reverse These Gains -
Sep 13, 2017
State Rundown 9/13: The Year of Unprecedented State Budget Impasses Continues -
Sep 12, 2017
Census Data Shows Importance of Refundable Tax Credits in Reducing Poverty, But Lawmakers Move to Restrict Them -
Sep 7, 2017
State Rundown 9/6: Most Statehouses Quiet, Many Pondering Harvey's Impacts -
Sep 6, 2017
New ITEP Report: Trump’s Proposed Territorial Tax System Would Increase Corporate Tax Dodging -
Aug 31, 2017
Tax Reform Principles Released by GOP in August Raise More Questions Than They Answer -
Aug 31, 2017
Trump (Sort of) Used Our Data on Corporate Tax Avoidance, But He Missed the Point -
Aug 31, 2017
State Rundown 8/31: Modernizing Taxes is Sometimes a Sprint, Sometimes a Marathon -
Aug 30, 2017
Sorting Through the Fallacies in Trump's Missouri Tax Speech -
Aug 30, 2017
Private School Voucher Credits Offer a Windfall to Wealthy Investors in Some States -
Aug 23, 2017
State Rundown 8/23: Few Lingering Budget Debates Cannot Linger Much Longer -
Aug 23, 2017
GOP Leaders Tout Corporate Tax Cuts at Boeing and AT&T, Companies that Already Have Single-Digit Tax Rates -
Aug 22, 2017
Inaccuracies Pile Up During Speaker Ryan’s Town Hall Meeting -
Aug 17, 2017
Context Is Everything -
Aug 10, 2017
The Many Reasons for the Seattle Income Tax -
Aug 9, 2017
State Rundown 8/9: And Then There Were Three -
Aug 9, 2017
It’s a Fact: Voucher Tax Credits Offer Profits for Some “Donors” -
Aug 4, 2017
How to Think About the Problem of Corporate Offshore Cash: Lessons from Microsoft -
Aug 4, 2017
Trump Administration May Make Corporate Inversions Great Again -
Aug 2, 2017
State Rundown 8/2: Legislative Tax Debates Wind Down as Ballot Initiative Efforts Ramp Up -
Jul 31, 2017
The Problems with the Multi-Million-Dollar Effort to Secure Millionaire and Corporate Tax Cuts -
Jul 28, 2017
Art Laffer and Stephen Moore’s Misleading Case for the Trump Tax Cuts -
Jul 27, 2017
State Rundown 7/27: State Legislative Debates Winding Down but Tax Talk Continues -
Jul 27, 2017
GOP Leaders in Congress and the White House Set Out Goals for Tax Reform that Their Plans Fail to Meet -
Jul 27, 2017
Reviving U.S. Manufacturing, One Cheesecake Factory at a Time -
Jul 26, 2017
Trump Touts Tax Cuts for the Wealthy as a Plan for Working People -
Jul 24, 2017
Sound Tax Policy Made a Comeback in 2017 -
Jul 21, 2017
Tax Avoidance: Nike “Just Did It” Again, Moving $1.5 Billion Offshore Last Year -
Jul 21, 2017
States May Be Finally Learning Their Lesson on Back-To-School Sales Tax Holidays -
Jul 19, 2017
State Rundown 7/19: Handful of States Still Have Their Hands Full with Tax and Budget Debates -
Jul 18, 2017
FedEx Pays Just 7.5% of Its Profits in Taxes While Pushing for a Lower Corporate Tax Rate -
Jul 11, 2017
State Rundown 7/11: Some Legislatures Get Long Holiday Weekends, Others Work Overtime -
Jul 6, 2017
Why We Need to End the Era of Anonymous Shell Corporations -
Jun 29, 2017
CBO Just Shot Down Trump’s Economic Forecast -
Jun 28, 2017
State Rundown 6/28: States Scramble to Finish Budgets Before July Deadlines -
Jun 28, 2017
Gas Taxes Will Rise in 7 States to Fund Transportation Improvements -
Jun 26, 2017
Senate Health Care Reform Bill Just as “Mean” as the House Version -
Jun 23, 2017
Inverter Mylan Finds Yet Another Way to Avoid Taxes -
Jun 22, 2017
Explaining our Analysis of Washington State’s Highly Regressive Tax Code -
Jun 21, 2017
West Virginia Lawmakers Settle on Imperfect Budget, Delay Tax Debate for Next Session -
Jun 21, 2017
State Rundown 6/21: Crunch Time for Many States with New Fiscal Year on Horizon -
Jun 16, 2017
The GOP Health Plan Cuts Medicaid to Lower Taxes for the Richest 3 Percent -
Jun 15, 2017
Which States Benefit from the Tax Cuts in the GOP Health Plan? -
Jun 14, 2017
State Rundown 6/14: Some States Wrapping Up Tax Debates, Others Looking Ahead to Next Round -
Jun 13, 2017
How to Recover from A Failed Tax Experiment: Part 1 -
Jun 12, 2017
The Best Way to Radically Simplify Tax Filing -
Jun 8, 2017
Kansas May Have Saved Us All -
Jun 7, 2017
State Rundown 6/7: Kansas Success Story and Other State News -
Jun 2, 2017
Oklahoma’s Budget Signed by Governor, but Long-Run Challenges Remain -
Jun 2, 2017
What a Populist Budget Proposal Really Looks Like -
May 31, 2017
State Rundown 5/31: Budget Woes Spurring Special Legislative Sessions -
May 30, 2017
Avocado Toast, iPhones, Billionairesplaining and the Trump Budget -
May 26, 2017
Besides Eviscerating the Safety Net, Trump Budget Would Put States in a Fiscal Bind -
May 25, 2017
Congressional Hearing Highlights Problems with the Border Adjustment Tax -
May 24, 2017
23 Million Uninsured Americans Is Too Great a Cost to Finance Tax Cuts for the Rich -
May 24, 2017
State Rundown 5/24: Several States Scramble to Finalize Budgets -
May 23, 2017
Trump Budget Plan Would Eliminate Child Tax Credits for Working Families Due to Parents’ Immigration Status -
May 22, 2017
ITEP's Commitment to Being a Voice for Low-, Moderate- and Middle-Income People in Tax Policy Debates -
May 18, 2017
State Rundown 5/18: Tax Debate Heat Wave Hitting States -
May 18, 2017
Tax Avoiding Companies Well Represented at Tax Reform Hearing -
May 17, 2017
Investors and Corporations Would Profit from a Federal Private School Voucher Tax Credit -
May 12, 2017
South Carolina's Gas Tax Deal: Could Have Been Worse, Could Have Been Better -
May 10, 2017
State Rundown 5/10: Spring Tax Debates at Different Stages in Different States -
May 10, 2017
Gas Taxes Increases Continue to Advance in the States -
May 9, 2017
Representative John Delaney's Bills Take the Wrong Approach on Funding Infrastructure -
May 5, 2017
Key Resources for Digging into the Trump and GOP Tax Reform Agenda -
May 4, 2017
EITC Victories Await in Both Hawaii and Montana -
May 4, 2017
Nebraska Vote Is Latest Defeat for Tax-Cut "Trigger" Gimmick -
May 4, 2017
Apple: A Case Study in Why a Tax Holiday for Offshore Cash is Indefensible -
May 3, 2017
State Rundown 5/3: Lawmakers See Value in State EITCs, Danger in Tax Cut Triggers -
May 2, 2017
Critical Anti-Tax Evasion Legislation Under Attack -
May 1, 2017
Time to Repeal State Deductions for Federal Income Taxes -
Apr 27, 2017
President Trump's Corporate Tax Outline: At Least He Didn't Use a Napkin -
Apr 27, 2017
New State Corporate Study: 3 Percent and Dropping -
Apr 27, 2017
Undocumented Immigrants' Tax Contributions in California: County-by-County Analysis -
Apr 27, 2017
State Rundown 4/27: States Finally Reaching Resolution on Gas Taxes -
Apr 27, 2017
Tax Justice Digest: Trickle-down revived, corps aren't paying state taxes, young immigrants and taxes, etc. -
Apr 25, 2017
Young Undocumented Immigrants Pay Taxes Too -
Apr 25, 2017
Income Tax Offers Best Bang for the Buck in Alaska -
Apr 25, 2017
Does a 15 Percent Corporate Tax Rate Sound Low? For Dozens of Major Corporations, Maybe Not -
Apr 21, 2017
No Room to Swing a CAT in Louisiana Legislature -
Apr 21, 2017
The Trump Administration Should Not Reopen Offshore Loopholes Closed by Recent Regulations -
Apr 19, 2017
State Rundown 4/19: Alaska's Long Income Tax Freeze May Be Thawing -
Apr 14, 2017
Tax Justice Digest: Resources for Tax Day 2017 -
Apr 12, 2017
State Rundown 4/12: Season in Transition as Some States Close, Others Open Tax Debates -
Apr 7, 2017
How to Shut Down Offshore Corporate Tax Avoidance, Full Stop -
Apr 6, 2017
Two New Bills Would Plug Major Loopholes in Our Offshore Corporate Tax System -
Apr 5, 2017
State Rundown 4/5: Focus on Major Tax Bills Intensifies -
Mar 31, 2017
All Is Peachy in Georgia, for Now -
Mar 31, 2017
Tax Justice Digest: Offshore Cash, Gas Tax and BAT -
Mar 30, 2017
A Comparative Analysis: Tax Rates Paid by Companies for and Against the Border Adjustment Tax -
Mar 29, 2017
Seeking the Right Balance in Alaska -
Mar 29, 2017
The April Fool's Joke Is on Consumers: April 1 Marks Record-Breaking Procrastination on Federal Gas Tax Policy -
Mar 29, 2017
State Rundown 3/29: More States Looking to Raise or Protect Revenues Amid Fiscal and Federal Uncertainty -
Mar 28, 2017
The $767 Billion Money Pot Driving Tax Reform -
Mar 24, 2017
What to Watch in the States: State Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) on the Move -
Mar 23, 2017
Taxing the Gig Economy -
Mar 23, 2017
Tax Justice Digest: 50-State Analysis of GOP Health Care Plan, Ensuring State Sales Taxes Keep Pace with Our Changing Economy -
Mar 22, 2017
GOP Healthcare Bill Cuts Insurance Coverage for Millions to Pay for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy; ITEP State-By-State Estimates -
Mar 22, 2017
State Rundown 3/22: Springtime Tax Debates Blossom Nationwide -
Mar 21, 2017
Amazon Will Collect Every State Sales Tax by April 1 -
Mar 15, 2017
State Rundown 3/15: Responses to Revenue Shortfalls Vary Widely -
Mar 9, 2017
Debunking the 35 Percent Corporate Tax Myth -
Mar 9, 2017
Tax Justice Digest: New Eight-Year Data Reveals Corporations Aren't Paying Their Fair Share -
Mar 8, 2017
State Rundown 3/8: Much Ado About Consumption Taxes -
Mar 8, 2017
A Tax Perspective on International Women's Day -
Mar 7, 2017
GOP Obamacare Repeal Would Slash Taxes on the Wealthy At the Expense of Middle- and Low-Income Families -
Mar 2, 2017
Undocumented Immigrants Pay Taxes -
Mar 2, 2017
Tax Justice Digest: Undocumented Immigrants Pay Taxes and Fact-Checking President Trump -
Mar 1, 2017
Fact-Checking Tax Policy Points in President Trump's Address to Congress -
Mar 1, 2017
State Rundown 3/1: Will Tax Cut Proposals Be "In Like a Lion, Out Like A Lamb"? -
Feb 28, 2017
Return of the Moderate: A Kansas Force Awakens -
Feb 28, 2017
What to Watch in the States: State-Federal Relationship Shifting -
Feb 27, 2017
States Should Require Combined Reporting of Corporate Income -
Feb 24, 2017
Why, West Virginia, Why? -
Feb 24, 2017
Tax Justice Digest: The Problems with a Border Adjustment Tax -
Feb 23, 2017
State Rundown 2/23: Regressive Tax Proposals Multiplying -
Feb 22, 2017
The Border Adjustment Tax Creates More Problems Than It Solves -
Feb 15, 2017
What to Watch in the States: Modernizing Sales Taxes for a 21st Century Economy -
Feb 15, 2017
State Rundown 2/15: Tax Overhauls Debated Around the Country -
Feb 13, 2017
'IMPROVE' Act Fails to Improve Tennessee's Regressive Tax Code -
Feb 9, 2017
Tax Justice Digest: What to watch in the states, debunking the supply-side myth -
Feb 8, 2017
Lawmakers Should Not Use Disproven Trickle-Down Myth to Ramrod Tax Cuts for the Rich -
Feb 8, 2017
State Rundown 2/8: Lessons of Kansas Tax-Cut Disaster Taking Hold in Kansas, Still Lost on Some in Other States -
Feb 6, 2017
Dodging Tough Fiscal Decisions with State Tax Cut Triggers and Phase-Ins -
Feb 2, 2017
What to Watch in the States: Gas Tax Hikes and Swaps -
Feb 2, 2017
What to Watch in the States: Further Attempts to Weaken or Eliminate Progressive Taxes -
Feb 1, 2017
State Rundown 2/1: 2017 State Tax Debates Getting Real -
Jan 30, 2017
And Then There Were Six: Amazon Expands Its Sales Tax Collection -
Jan 27, 2017
What to Watch in the States Series: Tax Policy 2017 -
Jan 26, 2017
A Visual Tour of Who Pays State & Local Taxes -
Jan 26, 2017
An Overview of State Tax Trends in 2017 -
Jan 26, 2017
Tax Justice Digest: A Visual Tour of Who Pays, 2017 State Tax Trends -
Jan 25, 2017
State Rundown 1/25: Revenue Shortfalls and How to Avoid Them -
Jan 25, 2017
47 Years Later, Alaska Considers Playing Catch-Up with its Motor Fuel Tax -
Jan 19, 2017
Tax Justice Digest: Kansas again, state budget woes, and corporate tax cuts -
Jan 18, 2017
Trump Plan to Give Billions in Tax Breaks to Multinational Corporations May Have Bipartisan Support -
Jan 18, 2017
Kansas State of the State: Worlds Apart -
Jan 18, 2017
State Rundown 1/18: Revenue Woes Piling Up Faster Than Solutions -
Jan 17, 2017
Congress Shouldn't Defy Public Opinion and Good Policy by Cutting Taxes for Corporations and the Wealthy -
Jan 17, 2017
State of Play: The Coming Debate Over the Ryan and Trump Tax Plans -
Jan 11, 2017
State Rundown 1/11: State Legislative Sessions Kick Off Amid Uncertainty -
Jan 4, 2017
State Rundown 1/4: Revenue Shortfalls, Gas Tax Changes Dominate Early Debates -
Aug 24, 2016
The Little-Known Effect of State Tax Changes: More or Less Money to the Federal Government -
Aug 9, 2016
Tim Cook's Disingenuous Argument to Justify Apple's $215 Billion Offshore Cash Hoard -
Aug 3, 2016
Fiscal Policy Shake-up Comes to Energy States -
Jun 24, 2016
Weird New Jersey Tax Debates Continue -
May 26, 2016
New Research Shows Millionaires Less Mobile than the Rest of Us -
Jan 28, 2016
Michigan's "Customer" Service Fail Is a Cautionary Tale about Cutting Taxes and Disinvestment -
Sep 3, 2015
H&R Block Uses Corporate Lobbying Might to Make Sure Poor People Use Its Services -
Jan 20, 2015
Who Pays? Report Brings out the Red Herring Brigade -
Sep 18, 2014
What's the Matter with Kansas Is What Ails All 50 States -
Sep 16, 2014
Poverty Data Not Surprising, No Matter How You Spin It -
Mar 11, 2014
Kansas Supreme Court Case Shows Public Services Suffer When Tax Breaks for Wealthy Take Priority