Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP)

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.

ITEP’s Andrew Boardman: The State of Local Taxes in Alaska

October 1, 2023

In late September, ITEP Local Policy Analyst Andrew Boardman presented on the state of local taxes in Alaska to the Presentation at the Alaska Municipal League 2023 Tax Conference. Click here for the slide deck.

A Better Wyoming: Guess Which Sparsely Populated Mineral Rich State is Getting an Income Tax…

June 8, 2017

Alaska stopped collecting income taxes 35 years ago, and Wyoming has never remotely considered implementing one in the 82 years since it decided instead to charge state and local sales taxes. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) discovered recently that nearly 82 percent of Alaskans could expect to pay less under a progressive income tax than they would under a sales tax designed to generate an identical level of revenue.