In 2023, the lowest-paid Ohioans spent more than twice as much of their income on state and local taxes than the highest-paid, according to a new study by the 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.
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ITEP Work in Action January 29, 2024 Policy Matters Ohio: New Data Show Just How Upside-Down Ohio’s Tax Code Is
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ITEP Work in Action November 10, 2023 Policy Matters Ohio: Tax Policy For the People
Every family in Ohio should be able to afford healthy food, a safe home, health care and the other elements of a good life. Ohio has the resources to make… -
ITEP Work in Action October 1, 2023 Policy Matters Ohio: Ohio Needs a Property-Tax Circuit Breaker
Sharp rises in home assessment values are bringing property-tax relief to the forefront at the Statehouse in Columbus. While various bills may provide a partial answer to the property tax… -
ITEP Work in Action July 7, 2023 Policy Matters Ohio: Legislators Squander Golden Opportunity
The operating budget includes a $1-billion-per-year income-tax cut that disproportionately benefits the wealthy, does nothing for Ohioans in the lowest-income 20%, and temporarily increases taxes for some middle-income households. Read… -
ITEP Work in Action June 15, 2023 Policy Matters Ohio: Senate Tax Plan Pits the Rich Against the Rest of Us
The Ohio Senate has voted to weaken the state’s fiscal foundations in order to hand out billions of dollars to wealthy households. The changes to the state’s personal income taxes,… -
ITEP Work in Action June 6, 2023 Policy Matters Ohio: A Better Earned Income Tax Credit Will Help Ohio’s Working Families
Ohio’s leaders can use the tax system to increase economic stability for every family in the state. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a proven, powerful tool to do… -
ITEP Work in Action April 25, 2023 Policy Matters Ohio: How Ohio’s Income Tax Works – and How the House Budget Would Change It
The proposed changes to the state’s personal income tax in the House substitute budget bill are another blow to Ohio’s only tax that is based on the ability to pay,… -
ITEP Work in Action April 4, 2023 Policy Matters Ohio: Testimony on HB 33 Before the House Finance Committee
This general assembly has the good fortune of budgeting in a time of surplus. Smart federal policy drove cash to people and businesses so when the worst of covid passed,… -
ITEP Work in Action March 15, 2023 Policy Matters Ohio: Testimony on HB 1 Before the House Ways and Means Committee
This bill proposes a substantial rewriting of Ohio’s property and personal income taxes. It is an overly complicated, poorly designed bill that does not achieve what the sponsor claimed it… -
ITEP Work in Action February 23, 2023 Policy Matters Ohio: Speaker’s #1 priority – Tax cut for the rich
One of Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens’ top-priority bills, House Bill 1, is a massive giveaway to the rich, and the first of two such proposals by leading Republicans in… -
ITEP Work in Action November 14, 2022 Policy Matters Ohio: Increase Family Security and Expand Opportunity in Ohio
The expanded federal child tax credit (CTC) improved the lives of millions of children and families. We outline how a simple solution — direct payments to families with children —… -
ITEP Work in Action June 29, 2021 Policy Matters Ohio: Ohio Tax Cuts Would Go Mostly to the Very Affluent
Instead of using Ohio’s public resources to build strong, resilient communities, the General Assembly approved income-tax cuts that would favor the very wealthiest Ohioans, while providing only modest benefits for… -
ITEP Work in Action June 29, 2021 Policy Matters Ohio: Ohio Income-tax Cuts Would Reward the Wealthiest
Income-tax cuts approved by the General Assembly in the budget bill would favor the very wealthiest Ohioans, while providing only modest benefits for moderate-income Ohioans and nothing at all to… -
ITEP Work in Action April 15, 2021 Policy Matters Ohio: House Budget chooses tax cuts over more support for key public programs
The 2022-23 state budget presents Ohio lawmakers with an opportunity to rebuild communities so all people, no matter what they look like or how much money they have, can thrive… -
ITEP Work in Action February 11, 2021 Policy Matters Ohio: Ohio’s Tax Structure and Racial Disparities
Our success as a state and a nation depends on whether all people, regardless of race, have the opportunity to thrive. From the beginning, American policies and practices oppressed, exploited… -
ITEP Work in Action January 12, 2021 Policy Matters Ohio: Ohio Needs a Corporate Profits Tax
Moreover, the 2017 federal tax law has put more money in the pockets of many Ohio business owners. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, slashed corporate taxes and provided a… -
ITEP Work in Action August 8, 2019 Policy Matters Ohio: Ohio Tax Shift Away From the Wealthy: The Pattern Repeats
The main tax measures in Ohio’s new budget bills will bring tax increases on average for lower- and middle-income taxpayers, while those at the top of the income scale on… -
ITEP Work in Action June 4, 2019 Policy Matters Ohio: Refundability Now
The federal credit is so effective that 29 states, including Ohio, have used it as a model for their own EITCs, calculating the state credit’s value as a percentage of the federal one. However, Ohio’s credit leaves out the most important part: refundability.
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ITEP Work in Action May 15, 2019 Policy Matters Ohio: The Good and the Bad in the House Tax Plan
The tax plan approved by the Ohio House last week would sharply limit an income-tax break for business owners that costs more than $1 billion a year while providing few… -
ITEP Work in Action March 25, 2019 Policy Matters Ohio: Senate Transportation Budget Zeroes Out Public Transit, Slightly Improves EITC
Last week, the Ohio Senate took a leap backwards by removing $100 million for public transit from the Transportation Budget allocated by the Ohio House of Representatives. They also took… -
ITEP Work in Action March 12, 2019 Policy Matters Ohio: Loopholes Upon Loopholes
As noted, of the three deductions, by far the most taxpayers took advantage of the deduction for self-employment taxes. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which has a model… -
ITEP Work in Action January 17, 2019 Beacon Journal/Ohio.com Editorial Board: How Ohio’s Tax System Puts a Heavier Burden on the Poor
The Institute for Taxation & Economic Policy performed the analysis for Policy Matters. Consider that those Ohio families with annual incomes below $19,000 paid an average 12.3 percent of their… -
ITEP Work in Action January 11, 2019 Policy Matters Ohio: New Research Underlines Need to Overhaul State Tax Code
Ohio’s upside-down tax system takes an especially heavy toll on black and Latino residents. That’s the finding of new research from the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy (ITEP), a… -
ITEP Work in Action October 22, 2018 Beacon Journal/Ohio.Com Editorial Board: A Taxing Matter Goes Missing in the Governor’s Race
It follows that low- and middle-income Ohioans pay a higher share than the national average, and wealthy Ohioans pay a lower share.
To a degree, that is expected in view of the vastly larger incomes of wealthy Ohioans. At the same time, the state would be well served by altering the shares to make the state and local system more fair, to reflect how new income in recent years, even decades, has flowed largely to households at the highest income rungs.
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ITEP Work in Action July 15, 2018 Cleveland.com: Changes Needed in Ohio’s Tax Policy (Opinion)
The Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy has examined the major state tax changes since 2005. For the top 1 percent, who make at least $480,000 a year, the tax cuts average $40,790 annually. Middle-income Ohioans on average have not received a cut, while those in the poorest fifth, earning less than $22,000, got an average increase of $140.