ITEP Work in Action
Advocates and policymakers at the state and federal levels rely on ITEP’s analytic capabilities to inform their debates on proposed tax policy changes. In any given year, ITEP fields requests for analyses of policies in 25 or more states. ITEP also works with national partners to provide analyses of federal tax policy proposals. This section highlights reports that use ITEP analyses to make a compelling case for progressive tax reforms.
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ITEP Work in Action April 10, 2025 Audio: ITEP’s Steve Wamhoff on What Federal Tax Policy Should – and Shouldn’t – Accomplish
ITEP Federal Policy Director Steve Wamhoff appeared on the Oregon Center for Public Policy’s “Policy for the People” podcast, discussing his recent report and the 2025 tax debate. -
ITEP Work in Action April 9, 2025 Groundwork Collaborative: Tax Giveaways for Gouging: How the Trump Tax Law Fueled Corporate Profiteering
We find that since Trump’s first tax giveaway, these companies have raked in nearly $500 billion in profits and enriched their shareholders by $463 billion while paying just $140 billion in federal income taxes. Compared to the two years before the TCJA was passed, these companies’ profits have more than doubled while their effective tax rates fell by 39 percent.
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ITEP Work in Action April 9, 2025 Peterson Foundation: Here’s How No Tax on Overtime Would Affect Federal Revenues and Tax Fairness
As part of a group of tax proposals, Republican leaders recently called for eliminating taxes on overtime pay. Excluding overtime compensation from federal taxes would create a new tax expenditure — also known as a tax break — that would reduce federal revenues and make the U.S. tax system more complex. Here, we review how much no tax on overtime could impact federal tax receipts and deficits, as well as its effect on fairness within the federal tax system.
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ITEP Work in Action April 9, 2025 Economic Policy Institute: Missouri Republican State Lawmakers Are Pushing a Radical Anti-Worker Tax Plan
Conservative lawmakers’ preference to cut taxes is nothing new, but Missouri state lawmakers are currently considering a tax measure that would privilege the state’s wealthiest individuals in ways no other state with an income tax has done—by fully exempting all capital gains income from taxation. This change would exacerbate an already regressive state tax system, forcing low- and middle-income Missourians to shoulder a larger share of financing for state public services.
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ITEP Work in Action April 2, 2025 Immigration Impact: Ahead of Tax Day, Fear of Filing Taxes Rises Among Undocumented Immigrants
Tax Day is approaching, but the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts may make many undocumented immigrants hesitant to file taxes. Some worry that providing personal information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) could be used against them.
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ITEP Work in Action April 2, 2025 Maine Center for Economic Policy: Expanding the Dependent Exemption Tax Credit is an Investment in Maine’s Future
Maine’s Dependent Exemption Tax Credit (DETC) is a vital investment in the state’s future. As Maine’s version of the child tax credit, it helps families with children or dependent adults afford essentials like food, rent, and childcare, especially in rural areas.
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ITEP Work in Action March 27, 2025 Policy Matters Ohio: Flat Income Tax Would Gut Ohio’s Budget
Ohio’s House Ways and Means Committee today holds its first hearing on HB 30, a bill that would tax the income of everyday Ohioans at the same rate as the state’s wealthiest households. The bill would eliminate the state’s top income-tax bracket of 3.5% on income above $100,000. By tax year 2026, Ohio would be left with a single rate of 2.75% on income above $27,350.
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ITEP Work in Action March 27, 2025 America’s Voice: In Seeking To Turn the IRS Into ICE, Trump Finally Admits that Undocumented Workers Actually Do Pay Taxes
The Trump administration is seeking to turn the IRS into another immigrant-hunting apparatus of the federal government, by seeking the confidential information of taxpayers who are even just suspected of being undocumented.
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ITEP Work in Action March 25, 2025 Oklahoma Policy Institute: Lawmakers Should Choose Targeted Relief Amidst Budget Uncertainty
State-level budget and tax policy matters deeply for Oklahomans because it directly affects how the state can meet its obligations to our fellow residents. This includes shared services like public safety, education, transportation construction, workforce development, and other programs that help all Oklahomans thrive.
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ITEP Work in Action March 25, 2025 Oregon Center for Public Policy: Worldwide Combined Reporting: How Oregon Can Make It Hard for Corporations to Profit from Offshore Tax Avoidance
Worldwide combined reporting is a smart, effective way Oregon can make corporations pay their fair share to support schools and essential services.
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ITEP Work in Action March 25, 2025 American Society of Civil Engineers: America’s Infrastructure Scores a C
The 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure demonstrates that recent federal
investments have positively affected many of the infrastructure sectors Americans rely
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ITEP Work in Action March 24, 2025 ITEP’s Who Pays? Cited in Washington Bill Creating Financial Intangibles Tax
Senate Democratic leaders in Washington state have introduced a series of bills aimed at making the state’s tax code more balanced. In the bill text for a new financial intangibles… -
ITEP Work in Action March 20, 2025 Hawai’i Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice: Hawai’i Should Close Tax Loopholes for Multinational Corporations
Multinational corporations make huge profits from the business activity they conduct in Hawaiʻi, while dodging the taxes they should be paying to support our state. These huge corporations do this by moving the profits earned within Hawaiʻi to their tax havens in foreign countries that levy almost no corporate taxes.
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ITEP Work in Action March 20, 2025 Oregon Center for Public Policy: Renew and Expand the Oregon Earned Income Tax Credit
The EITC is one of the most effective ways to address rising costs for hard-working families in Oregon.
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ITEP Work in Action March 20, 2025 Massachusetts Budget & Policy Center: By Taxing GILTI Profits, Massachusetts Can Reclaim Millions in Revenue Lost to Corporate Offshore Tax Dodging
Massachusetts loses out on hundreds of millions of tax dollars each year due to “profit-shifting”, a practice common among large, multinational corporations. International profit-shifting involves complex accounting maneuvers that make a corporation’s U.S. profits appear instead on the books of related companies located in offshore tax havens. It is an abusive form of tax avoidance that many multinational corporations use to lower their federal and state tax payments.
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ITEP Work in Action March 18, 2025 Every Texan: Texas Taxes Are Upside-Down. Big Tax Cuts Don’t Help.
Texas’ tax system is upside-down. When it comes to funding our public services, schools, and state and local governments, Texans with lower incomes are expected to pay more than their fair… -
ITEP Work in Action March 14, 2025 Washington State Budget & Policy Center: The Truth About Washington’s Revenue Shortfall
During the 2025 legislative session, Washington state lawmakers face a budget shortfall that threatens funding for the public programs we all rely on. Read more. -
ITEP Work in Action March 12, 2025 Minnesota Budget Project: Trump’s 2025 Tax Plans Would Hurt Everyday Americans
Trump tax plans – like extending most provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) that are set to expire, special tax breaks for people who earn some kinds of income, or new corporate tax cuts – would provide the largest tax cuts to higher-income households and profitable corporations. Because the Trump tax plans are also very costly, they could add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit every year and put health care, food support, and other public services that low- and middle-income people benefit from on the chopping block to pay for those tax cuts.1
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ITEP Work in Action March 10, 2025 Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research: Starbucks’ Swiss Scheme: ‘Fair’ Trading or Global Tax Dodge?
A new report from CICTAR alleges that hidden behind its ‘ethical’ sourcing of coffee beans, Starbucks engages in major global tax avoidance. The report estimates that at least $1.3 billion has been diverted via Starbucks’ Swiss subsidiary over the last decade. On paper only, all of Starbucks’ coffee – at least 3% of the global coffee bean trade – is purchased via a Swiss subsidiary. This entity, Starbucks Coffee Trading Company Sarl, has marked up the price by a stunning 15-18% before re-selling to other Starbucks subsidiaries for roasting and retailing.
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ITEP Work in Action March 10, 2025 Economic Policy Institute: What You Need to Know About Immigrant Workers
New fact sheets from the Economic Policy Institute illustrate the positive economic impact of immigrant workers in every state–and cite recent research on how much President Trump’s mass deportation agenda could cost… -
ITEP Work in Action March 7, 2025 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Maryland’s Tax Loophole for Billionaire Corporations Must End as Federal Cuts Loom for Working Families
Conservative revenue estimates released last month by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) project more than $700 million annually in new revenues for Maryland once you close the loophole that allows a small group of the world’s most aggressive global giants to dodge their responsibility to the people of Maryland.[10] These funds will help Maryland close its budget gap, respond effectively to the federal government’s financial threats, and enable important public investments in good schools, good nutrition, good roads, good health care, and good state workers who deliver high-quality service to Marylanders.
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ITEP Work in Action March 7, 2025 Sen. Warren: Warren Slams Big Tech CEOs for Cozying Up to Trump Admin, Attempting to Score Billions in Tax Handouts at Working Families’ Expense
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, wrote to Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla; Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, regarding the cumulative $75 billion in tax giveaways — handed out at the expense of working families — that their companies could receive after cozying up to the Trump administration.
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ITEP Work in Action March 6, 2025 American Journal of Managed Care: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Fuels Health Crisis: Detention, Depression, Deportation, and Disease
The Trump administration’s stringent immigration policies are causing a public health crisis, marked by severe mental and physical health consequences for detained immigrants in overcrowded and unsafe detention centers, which… -
ITEP Work in Action March 5, 2025 Sen. Sanders Delivers Livestreamed Response to President Trump’s Congressional Address
As most Americans know, we are living in a pivotal moment in American history – facing unprecedented challenges. How we respond to this moment will impact not only OUR lives,… -
ITEP Work in Action March 4, 2025 Testimony: ITEP’s Miles Trinidad on Maryland’s Budget Reconciliation Act of 2025
This testimony was delivered to a joint session of Maryland’s House Appropriations and Ways and Means Committees on February 27, 2025. Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony on…