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  • Steve Wamhoff
    Steve Wamhoff
    Director of Federal Tax Policy
    March 7, 2021

    Estimates of Cash Payment and Tax Credit Provisions in American Rescue Plan

    Update: On March 10, the House passed the Senate version of the COVID relief bill, called the American Rescue Plan Act, and sent it to President Biden for his signature. This means that the Senate version of the bill described herein is the final legislation enacted into law.
  • Steve Wamhoff
    Steve Wamhoff
    Director of Federal Tax Policy
    January 15, 2021

    ANALYSIS: Cash and Tax Provisions in Biden’s Economic Recovery Plan

    The $1.9 trillion economic recovery plan, known as the American Rescue Plan, announced by President-elect Biden contains, among other provisions, expanded cash payments and changes to the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).
  • Steve Wamhoff
    Steve Wamhoff
    Director of Federal Tax Policy
    January 6, 2021

    How the Proposed $2,000 Cash Payments Compare to the $600 Already Provided by Congress  

    On Dec. 28, the House of Representatives passed the Caring for Americans with Supplemental Help (CASH) Act of 2020, which would increase the cash payment recently provided by Congress from $600 per person to $2,000 per person, among other changes. New estimates from ITEP compare the impacts of $2,000 payments to $600 payments.
  • Steve Wamhoff
    Steve Wamhoff
    Director of Federal Tax Policy
    December 21, 2020

    National and State-by-State Estimates of New $600 Cash Payments

    The House and Senate are about to pass the first COVID-19 relief legislation since the CARES Act was enacted in March. The new relief package includes, among other provisions, cash payments of $600 per person, which is half as large as the payments provided under the CARES Act, but also extends payments to spouses and children of certain undocumented immigrants who were left out of the previous payments.

  • January 30, 2019

    Data for the Win: Advocating for Equitable State and Local Tax Policy (Webinar)

    Watch the video recording below for discussion on how ITEP’s distributional data can be part of an advocacy and communications strategy for securing state tax policies that raise enough revenue to fund various priorities. Outline includes a brief overview of findings from the sixth edition of Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States as well as insight from state advocates who use Who Pays? and other tax policy analyses research to pursue their legislative agendas.

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