Blog Archive
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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 -
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 the Poor 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