We are in the midst of a care crisis, caused by a rapidly aging population and an increased need for long-term care that the current workforce just can’t keep up with. Immigrants play a vital role to fill that gap. Without immigrants, our already broken care system would collapse.
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 June 13, 2025 Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network: We Can’t Solve the Care Crisis Without Immigrants
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ITEP Work in Action June 13, 2025 Policy Matters Ohio: A Budget for Ohio’s Millionaires
The Ohio Senate has passed its state budget bill. Policy Matters Ohio Tax Policy Researcher Bailey Williams issued the following statement:
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ITEP Work in Action June 12, 2025 DC Fiscal Policy Institute: Undocumented Immigrants Make DC’s Tax Base More Resillient
As she and the federal government escalate attacks on immigrants, DC should not overlook the many ways these residents contribute to the communities they live in and the local economy, including through their tax contributions toward DC’s shared resources.
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ITEP Work in Action June 11, 2025 Montana Budget & Policy Center: Tax Policy Highs and Lows from the 2025 Montana Legislature
The 2025 Legislature made a number of changes to Montana’s tax system, including an expensive cut to the income tax and restructuring of the property tax system.
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ITEP Work in Action June 10, 2025 Center for American Progress: Governors Should Fight for an Economic Agenda To Improve the Lives of Working-Class Residents
Governors are uniquely able to advance an economic agenda that reflects the needs of the working class, giving them the opportunity to illustrate a contrast with the Trump administration, whose policies favor billionaires at the expense of working people.
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ITEP Work in Action June 10, 2025 Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy: What You Need to Know About the National Private School Voucher Proposal in the U.S. House Budget Bill
Normally, when individuals sell stock, they must pay capital gains taxes on any profit they’ve made. But donors who gift their stock to an SGO wouldn’t have to pay capital gains taxes on any increase in the stock’s value, and they would still get the generous dollar-for-dollar tax credit, yielding a personal profit for themselves.
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ITEP Work in Action June 10, 2025 Georgia Budget and Policy Institute: The House-Passed Reconciliation Bill Would Significantly Increase National Debt, Primarily Benefitting Top Earners, While Cutting Health Care and Food Assistance
Overall, the budget reconciliation legislation would reduce federal taxes for Georgians by $16.6 billion annually. However, 69% of these savings ($11.5 billion) are directed to the highest-earning 20% of Georgia households, or those making over $153,100 per year.
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ITEP Work in Action June 6, 2025 Congressional Budget Office: Effects of the Surge in Immigration on State and Local Budgets in 2023
In this report, the Congressional Budget Office estimates how the surge in immigration that began in
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ITEP Work in Action June 5, 2025 Roosevelt Institute: It’s Time to End Joint Tax Filing
A move to individual filing, making the tax code marriage neutral and reducing tax rates on married women who work, would not only simplify the tax code but make it fairer and increase the ability of married women to participate fully in the economy.
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ITEP Work in Action June 4, 2025 Kentucky Center for Economic Policy: Program Cuts and Tariff Costs Will Leave Many Kentucky Families Worse Off, Even with Modest Tax Cuts
On Thursday, May 22nd, the House of Representatives passed its major tax and spending legislation, which included last-minute revisions that made it even more favorable for the wealthy.
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ITEP Work in Action May 31, 2025 West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy: Big Beautiful Bill’s Tax Cuts Overwhelmingly Favor the Wealthiest in West Virginia Even Before Accounting for Tariffs and Benefit Cuts
Earlier this month the U.S. House of Representatives passed a major new tax and spending bill that not only represents the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history, taking away SNAP and… -
ITEP Work in Action May 29, 2025 Migration Policy Institute: Seeking to Ramp Up Deportations, the Trump Administration Quietly Expands a Vast Web of Data
For example, the U.S. tax system mostly functions on voluntary compliance. Unauthorized immigrants contributed nearly $100 billion in local, state, and federal taxes in 2022, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates. Concerns that taxpayers’ information could be shared with ICE could lead to a decline in compliance, resulting in reduced tax revenue.
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ITEP Work in Action May 29, 2025 Brookings: The Educational Choice for Children Act Opens the Door to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
(For a detailed illustration of how this works—and some nice figures—I’d recommend this piece from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.)
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ITEP Work in Action May 29, 2025 Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies: Centering Black Households in the 2025 Tax Debate
The policy brief, “Centering Black Households in the 2025 Tax Debate,” analyzes how the proposed extension of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) would affect Black communities.
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ITEP Work in Action May 27, 2025 Florida Policy Institute: 4 Things That Floridians Should Know About the US House Reconciliation Bill
As the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy notes, the top 1 percent of Floridians (those with income of more than $1.1 million annually) would receive an average tax cut of $86,320 in 2026. As a share of the tax cuts, in 2026, the top 1 percent would receive 25 percent of the total tax cuts.
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ITEP Work in Action May 27, 2025 Colorado Fiscal Institute: One Big Beautiful Betrayal
An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) highlights just how lopsided the bill’s tax provisions are.
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ITEP Work in Action May 27, 2025 DC Fiscal Policy Institute: House Tax Bill Would Be a Massive Giveaway for the Wealthiest Washingtonians
Analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy shows that the richest 1 percent of taxpayers in the District will get the biggest tax cut—one being paid for by slashing federal basic needs programs for tens of millions of Americans.
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ITEP Work in Action May 23, 2025 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: House Republican Tax Bill Is Skewed to Wealthy, Costs More Than Extending 2017 Tax Law, and Fails to Deliver for Families
The 2017 tax law imposed new immigration-related restrictions on the Child Tax Credit, requiring, for the first time that children have a Social Security number (SSN). This change denied the credit to up to 1 million children.
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ITEP Work in Action May 22, 2025 DC Fiscal Policy Institute: Raising Revenue Is An Urgent and Practical Approach to Reducing the Harm of DC’s Recession
If Congress extends the 2017 tax cuts as planned, by itself this would yield the top 5 percent of households in DC an average annual tax cut of up to $36,000, depending on how much the cap on deductions for state and local taxes (SALT) is loosened or if it is eliminated altogether (according to unpublished data analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy for DCFPI)
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ITEP Work in Action May 22, 2025 Washington State Budget & Policy Center: The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Mass Deportation: What’s at Risk in Washington State
In 2022, people who are undocumented paid nearly $1 billion ($997 million) in Washington state and local taxes.2 If 10% of people who are undocumented are deported, it would result in a loss of $100 million per year in state and local tax revenues.
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ITEP Work in Action May 21, 2025 Media Matters for America: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Whips Republican Support for Devastating Medicaid Cuts
ITEP further explained how regressive the GOP tax bill is: “While working-class families (defined here loosely as the bottom 40 percent of earners) could expect an average tax cut of $361 in 2027, the nation’s highest-income families (defined as the top 0.1 percent) would receive an average tax cut of at least $255,670 in that year.”
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ITEP Work in Action May 21, 2025 New Jersey Policy Perspective: The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Mass Deportation: What’s at Risk in New Jersey
In 2022, people who are undocumented paid an estimated $1.3 billion in New Jersey state and local taxes.[3]
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ITEP Work in Action May 21, 2025 North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Mass Deportation: What’s At Risk in North Carolina.
In 2022, people who are undocumented paid $692 million in North Carolina state and local taxes.[ii] If ten percent of people who are undocumented are deported it would result in a loss of $69 million per year in state and local tax revenues.
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ITEP Work in Action May 20, 2025 Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Letter Re: IRS Commissioner Nominee Billy Long
I write to outline my concerns and provide you with a set of questions about them. I ask that you review my questions and come to your Senate Finance Committee hearing prepared to answer them in full. I also ask that you provide written answers prior to any committee vote on your nomination.
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ITEP Work in Action May 16, 2025 Freedom from Religion Foundation: FFRF Warns of Constitutional Threats in Congressional Reconciliation Bill
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is sounding the alarm on the deeply troubling federal reconciliation bill making its way through Congress that would funnel billions of public dollars into religious education, erode secular public institutions, and give unprecedented power to the executive branch to target tax-exempt nonprofits — potentially including FFRF itself.