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Video: ITEP’s Matt Gardner Discusses IRS Funding & ‘U.S. v. Moore’ SCOTUS Case on The Rick Smith Show
October 2, 2023
ITEP Senior Fellow Matt Gardner joined Rick Smith to discuss, among other things, our new report Supreme Corporate Tax Giveaway: Who Would Benefit from the Roberts Court Striking Down the Mandatory Repatriation Tax?.
ITEP’s Andrew Boardman: The State of Local Taxes in Alaska
October 1, 2023 • By Andrew Boardman
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.
Policy Matters Ohio: Ohio Needs a Property-Tax Circuit Breaker
October 1, 2023 • By ITEP Staff
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 squeeze being felt by some Ohioans, there is a better solution. It’s one that has been embraced by states across the country: A property-tax circuit […]
Capital & Main: Some States Are Fighting Rising Child Poverty With Tax Credits
October 1, 2023
New Mexico is one of 10 states that have created or expanded child tax credits after Congress let a federal program expire. Read more.
Axios: How the Supreme Court Could Grant $271 Billion in Tax Relief
October 1, 2023
A court case on this term’s Supreme Court docket could end up granting 400 of America’s largest corporations some $271 billion in tax relief, per new calculations from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Read more.
Newsweek: Supreme Court May Upend the U.S. Tax Structure
September 29, 2023
An upcoming case that will be heard by the Supreme Court could potentially have far-reaching implications on the United States tax structure, according to a new report. Read more.
The Lever: Justices Have Financial Interest In Major Tax Case
September 27, 2023
John Roberts and Samuel Alito own shares of companies that could score billions in tax relief from the outcome of Moore v. United States. Read more.
Stateline: As Child Poverty Edges Back Up, States Launch or Expand Their Own Tax Credits
September 21, 2023
The federal pandemic-era child tax credit expansion lifted millions of children out of poverty in the second half of 2021. But Congress allowed it to expire at the end of that year, and new U.S. census data shows the child poverty rate more than doubled in 2022, erasing the record gains that were made. Read more.
Washington Post Editorial: The Best Vehicle for Addressing Child Poverty is Right Before Our Eyes
September 18, 2023
Child poverty in the United States more than doubled from 2021 to 2022, data released Tuesday from the Census Bureau shows. The surge — by far the largest jump on record — is a tragedy that was foreseeable and could have been prevented. It is largely the result of the decision by Congress not to renew the enhanced child […]
Rep. Greg Casar on Corporate Tax Dodging & The Inflation Reduction Act
September 16, 2023 • By ITEP Staff
On September 14, 2023, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee held a hearing on the Inflation Reduction Act. Rep. Greg Casar talked about how necessary the IRA is to crack down on corporate tax dodging, as evidenced by research from ITEP.
Video: ITEP’s Amy Hanauer Talks Poverty and the Child Tax Credit on the Rick Smith Show
September 14, 2023
This week the Census Bureau released new numbers showing that in 2022 the U.S. lost the dramatic gains made against child poverty in 2021, in large part due to the lapsed Child Tax Credit expansion.
Salon: Child Poverty More than Doubled in 2022 Due to Republicans’ Tax Cut Push. Trump Plans for More
September 13, 2023
Trump and his advisors are setting sights on an aggressive tax cut plan to push during his 2024 campaign. Read more.
Testimony of ITEP’s Neva Butkus Before the Arkansas Senate Revenue and Tax Committee
September 12, 2023 • By Neva Butkus
The corporate and personal income tax changes under Senate Bill 8 would cost the state more than $200 million, with 70 percent of the overall cuts benefiting Arkansans in the top 20 percent of households.
Arkansas Advocates for Children: Lawmakers Returning To Work This Week Should Reject Costly Tax Cuts For The Wealthy
September 12, 2023 • By ITEP Staff
In a dramatic development, Arkansas lawmakers are returning to work at the state Capitol this week, after Gov. Huckabee Sanders called for a special session of the Legislature last Friday. Top of the agenda? Whether Arkansas should adopt another round of costly income tax cuts that primarily benefit wealthy households and corporations, on top of cuts already […]
Vanity Fair: Donald Trump Wants to Give His Favorite Corporations Another Giant Tax Cut in a Second Term
September 12, 2023
Remember when Donald Trump ran for office in 2016, claiming to be a champion of the working class and the worst nightmare of the global elite? And then passed a package of tax cuts that disproportionately benefited corporations and billionaires and was basically a middle finger to American workers? Well, today brings some exciting news for those who think the überwealthy […]
Washington Post: Trump Advisers Plot Aggressive New Tax Cuts for Second White House Term
September 11, 2023
As Donald Trump widens his lead over other Republican candidates in the GOP primary, the former president’s closest economic advisers are plotting an aggressive new set of tax cuts to push on the campaign trail and from the Oval Office if he wins a second term. Read more.
ITEP’s Marco Guzman: Making a More Robust Property Tax Circuit Breaker in Colorado
September 9, 2023 • By Marco Guzman
ITEP Senior State Policy Analyst Marco Guzman gave a presentation on property tax circuit breakers to the Colorado General Assembly’s Legislative Oversight Committee Concerning Tax Policy on September 7, 2023. Click here for the slide deck.
New York Times: New Corporate Minimum Tax Ushers In Confusion and a Lobbying Blitz
September 7, 2023
The new corporate minimum tax was one of the most significant changes to the U.S. tax code in decades. Its logic rested on the idea that rich companies should not be able to find loopholes and other accounting maneuvers in order to pay lower tax rates than their workers. But making the tax operational has become a […]
Mother Jones: The Struggle to Tax the Rich Isn’t Done Yet—In Some States It’s Actually Happening
August 24, 2023
Under an overcast sky, Patty Flores led a group of colleagues to an empty lot in the mobile home park where she lived. A bare patch of grass traced the outline of a home set ablaze in an electrical fire. She saw it as a symptom of a larger problem, one that connected to her rising […]
Mother Jones: “The Wealthy Tend to Always Look Out for Themselves”—The Attack on State Taxes By Outside Groups
August 22, 2023
Amia Edwards lives here because she wants to make a difference. But in this majority-Black city, long starved for funding by the state’s mostly white Legislature, that’s proved a steep challenge. Read more.
Chicago Fed: Electric Vehicles, Motor Fuel Taxes, and Road Funding in the Seventh District and Beyond
August 17, 2023 • By ITEP Staff
State and federal highways are currently funded by a combination of motor fuel taxes (MFTs), general fund transfers, fees, tolls, property taxes, and bond revenues. Read more.
Editorial: Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday is Mostly Hype
August 15, 2023
It’s just about back-to-school time, and Gov. Phil Murphy and other Democratic state leaders are showing their love for New Jersey families by offering this special giveaway: 20 cents in sales tax savings off a $3 notebook. Or 13 cents off $2 box of pencils. Wow, right? Read more.
Washington Post: Biden Wants Rich Companies to Pay Higher Taxes. Some Are Fighting Back.
August 14, 2023
It was a simple idea: Major U.S. corporations should pay at least a 15 percent tax on their income, ending an era when some of the country’s most profitable firms owed the federal government little or nothing at all. Instead, the policy championed by President Biden remains bogged down in Washington amid growing legal uncertainty […]
City of Seattle Revenue Stabilization Workgroup: Final Report
August 10, 2023 • By ITEP Staff
Seattle strives to support a social safety net for people in need and to uplift our diverse communities. Those services are too often financed by putting a disproportionate burden on those least able to afford it. Washington State ranks as having the most regressive tax system in the country. It doesn’t need to be that […]
Video: ITEP’s Carl Davis Presents ‘Tax Policy to Reduce Racial Retirement Wealth Inequality’ at UPenn’s Wharton School
August 8, 2023 • By Carl Davis
ITEP Research Director Carl Davis presents “Tax Policy to Reduce Racial Retirement Wealth Inequality,” coauthored with ITEP’s Brakeyshia Samms, at the 2023 Pension Research Council Symposium “Diversity, Inclusion, and Inequality: Implications for Retirement Income Security and Policy.”
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