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 9, 2017 California Budget & Policy Center: What Has Proposition 30 Meant for California?
Proposition 30, approved by voters in 2012, provided critical revenues to California at a time when the state faced daunting fi scal challenges. These revenues increased school funding and allowed… -
ITEP Work in Action January 9, 2017 Kansas Center for Economic Growth: KCEG Testimony to the House Taxation Committee as Neutral on HB 2023.
The LLC Loophole is unfair, expensive, and failed to create jobs. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the LLC loophole costs Kansas nearly $290 million per year.… -
ITEP Work in Action January 9, 2017 Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families: Problems down the road with governor’s highway plan
“The governor wants to get through the first year by spending down some of the rainy day fund and using part of reamining surplus funds. As far as short term… -
ITEP Work in Action January 9, 2017 Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development: Sustainable Solutions for Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure in Louisiana
The Governor’s Task Force on Transportation Infrastructure Investment is an 18-member Task Force established by Governor Edwards to recommend community-driven solutions for Louisiana’s transportation infrastructure investment needs. The Task Force submitted its formal… -
ITEP Work in Action January 6, 2017 North Carolina Justice Center: 12 Charts about N.C.’s Economy in 2016
“The economic challenges that face North Carolina families were front and center in 2016. North Carolina wrestled with the disconnect between political rhetoric and everyday reality this election year, thanks… -
ITEP Work in Action January 6, 2017 Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center: A Fair Share Tax Plan for Pennsylvania
“One barrier to raising revenues is the reluctance of legislators on both sides of the aisle to place additional taxes on Pennsylvania’s poor and middle-class. That reluctance is well motivated.… -
ITEP Work in Action January 5, 2017 Policy Matters Ohio: Flat Tax Would Make Most Ohioans Pay More
Using a sophisticated model of Ohio’s tax system, the national research group, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), found that with a 3.5 percent flat tax, 72 percent of… -
ITEP Work in Action December 31, 2016 Montana Budget & Policy Center: Montana Corporate Income Taxes
For generations, our tax dollars have served as shared investments in the programs and services that make our state a great place to live, work, and play. Tax dollars enable Montanans to work together to achieve things which we could not do alone – educate our children, build and maintain infrastructure, provide public safety through police and fire protection, keep our air and water clean, and pave the way to a stronger and more inclusive economy.
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ITEP Work in Action December 19, 2016 The Governor’s Task Force on Infrastructure Investment: Sustainable Solutions for Multimodal Transportaion Infrastructure in Louisiana
Pursuant to the charges of JBE 2016-23, the Governor’s Task Force on Transportation Infrastructure Investment (Task Force) worked diligently over a six-month period to determine what must be done to… -
ITEP Work in Action December 18, 2016 Report to the Louisiana Governor: SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN LOUISIANA
Pursuant to the charges of JBE 2016-23, the Governor’s Task Force on Transportation Infrastructure Investment (Task Force) worked diligently over a six-month period to determine what must be done to… -
ITEP Work in Action December 18, 2016 Kansas Center for Economic Growth: A Guide to Comprehensive Tax Reform in Kansas
The morning after the election was tough. Half the country woke up feeling devastated, the other half awoke feeling excited. Regardless of who you voted for, it’s hard to come… -
ITEP Work in Action December 16, 2016 Georgia Budget & Policy Institute: A Bottom-Up Tax Cut to Build Georgia’s Middle Class Update
Building a better Georgia, with a strong economy and vibrant communities, requires a more resilient middle class and more opportunities for working families to climb the economic ladder. One of… -
ITEP Work in Action December 13, 2016 Migration Policy Institute: The Costs of Brain Waste among Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States
“While the United States has long been a top destination for the world’s best and brightest, it has fallen short when it comes to fully tapping the skills and training… -
ITEP Work in Action December 13, 2016 Kentucky Center for Economic Policy: Those at the Top Would Get More Tax Breaks, Investments Would Suffer from Shift to Consumption Taxes
“The table below shows the impact, by income group, of two such hypothetical shifts. Notice that even when the shift is seemingly minor – one penny less on the dollar… -
ITEP Work in Action November 30, 2016 Montana Budget & Policy Center: Introduction to Who Pays Montana’s Taxes
Chart 1 outlines the three main state and local taxes – income, property, and sales/excise—and how the cost of these taxes is distributed among taxpayers. Both property and sales/excise taxes are regressive. Conversely, income taxes are progressive.
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ITEP Work in Action November 30, 2016 Montana Budget & Policy Center: Montana’s Individiual Income Tax
Prior to the tax cuts implemented in 2003, Montana had ten different income brackets, with each higher income bracket paying a slightly larger share of their income in taxes (Appendix… -
ITEP Work in Action November 1, 2016 Maine Center for Economic Policy: Moving Maine Students to the Head of the Class
“This November, Maine voters will consider a ballot initiative (Question 2) that rolls back recent tax breaks for the wealthy and dedicates this revenue toward additional state level resources for… -
ITEP Work in Action October 4, 2016 New Jersey Policy Perspectives: Transportation-Funding Deal Endangers New Jersey’s Future & Fails the ‘Tax Fairness’ Test
After a months-long stalemate, New Jersey’s three most powerful policymakers announced late last Friday that they’d come to an agreement on investing in the state’s transportation networks. As part of… -
ITEP Work in Action September 30, 2016 Montana Budget & Policy Center: A Montana Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
Approximately 83,000 Montanans received the federal EITC in 2014. If Montana established a state EITC, these same working families would receive additional support through boosted wages and would be better able to meet their family’s needs. Additionally, low-income families receiving a state EITC would face a reduced tax burden.
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ITEP Work in Action September 26, 2016 Policy Matters Ohio: Testimony: Tax Cuts, Flat Tax Aren’t the Answer
Overall, the top 1 percent, who made more than $360,000 a year in 2014, received an average annual tax cut of $20,000 from the major tax changes between 2005 and 2014 (that doesn’t include last year’s cuts). On average, Ohioans in the bottom 60 percent of the income spectrum (making $54,000 or less) are paying slightly more.
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ITEP Work in Action August 18, 2016 West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy: Modernizing West Virginia’s Marijuana Laws
“Over the last two decades, states across the country have modernized their marijuana laws to reflect the growing evidence that doing so will help reduce criminal justice costs, help treat… -
ITEP Work in Action July 30, 2016 Montana Budget & Policy Center: The Montana We Could Be
In Montana, the higher a household’s income, the lower share of that income it tends to pay in state and local taxes [see Chart 1]. One reason for this is that people who make less money end up paying a larger share of their income in local sales taxes and property taxes.
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ITEP Work in Action May 18, 2016 Michigan League for Public Policy: Review tax expenditures to help fix Michigan’s broken revenue stream
“Michigan has a budget problem, and simply put, there just isn’t enough money to go around. Michigan has experienced crisis after crisis—the Great Recession, nearly record-high unemployment, municipal financial emergencies,… -
ITEP Work in Action May 17, 2016 West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy: New Revenues to Balance the Budget Don’t Have to be Regressive
“Last week, Governor Tomblin finally issued the call for the legislature to come back into a special session to balance the FY 2017 budget. The special session will begin today,… -
ITEP Work in Action May 13, 2016 Oklahoma Policy Institute: New bill would devastate a key tax credit for Oklahoma working families
“Yesterday, a letter signed by more than 150 Oklahoma clergy was delivered to lawmakers and Governor Fallin, urging them not to slash key tax credits for working families to fix…