Federal Policy

ITEP’s federal policy resources provide quantitative and qualitative research and analysis on current tax policies, proposals and reform options. Its distributional analyses highlight how tax proposals will affect Americans in different income groups nationally and in all 50 states.

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Featured Research

report May 2, 2024

Corporate Taxes Before and After the Trump Tax Law

brief September 13, 2024

Extending Temporary Provisions of the 2017 Trump Tax Law: Updated National and State-by-State Estimates

report July 30, 2024

Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants

report July 16, 2024

Corporate Tax Breaks Contribute to Income and Racial Inequality and Shift Resources to Foreign Investors

More Federal Research

blog May 16, 2025

The House Tax Plan, By the Numbers

blog May 15, 2025

House Tax Bill Would Encourage Dynastic Wealth Hoarding by Further Weakening the Estate Tax

brief May 15, 2025

House Tax Bill Enlists the Wealthy to Spread Private School Vouchers

blog May 10, 2025

Trump’s Proposed Higher Tax Rate on the Richest Taxpayers Would Affect Very Little of Their Income

brief May 7, 2025

What Corporations Have to Gain from the Gutting of the IRS

blog May 5, 2025

America Has Left the Building: U.S. Loses from Our Global Tax Policy Choices, Others Could Gain

blog April 24, 2025

Millions of Citizen Children Would be Harmed by Proposal Billed as Targeting Immigrant Tax Filers

blog April 23, 2025

The Impact of Trump’s Tariffs

blog April 17, 2025

Ending Direct File Program is a Gift to the Tax-Prep Industry That Will Cost Taxpayers Time and Money

blog April 15, 2025

It’s Tax Day. You’ve Paid Your Share, but the Billionaires Haven’t.

brief April 9, 2025

Sharp Turn in Federal Policy Brings Significant Risks for State Tax Revenues

blog April 4, 2025

What the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Got Wrong About Tesla’s Tax Avoidance

blog April 4, 2025

Senate Republicans Rig Congressional Rules to Make Their Tax Cuts Appear Cost-Free

blog March 26, 2025

Why Americans Are Right to Be Unhappy About Corporate Tax Avoidance

blog March 26, 2025

Two Ways a 2025 Federal Tax Bill Could Worsen Income and Racial Inequality

report March 26, 2025

Federal Tax Policy: What Should It Accomplish?

report March 18, 2025

Shelter Skelter: How the Educational Choice for Children Act Would Use Tax Avoidance to Fuel School Privatization

report March 18, 2025

A Revenue Impact Analysis of the Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025

blog March 5, 2025

Trump’s Address to Congress Obscures His Actual Tax Agenda

blog March 3, 2025

A Well Targeted Federal Renter Credit Could Help Reduce Wealth Gaps

report March 3, 2025

High-Rent, Low-Wealth: Addressing the Racial Wealth Gap through a Federal Renter Credit

blog February 26, 2025

House Budget Resolution Tees Up Damaging Trump Tax Agenda

blog February 11, 2025

Turning IRS Agents to Deportation Will Reduce Public Revenues

blog February 11, 2025

The Five Biggest Corporations Represented at Trump’s Inauguration Could Save $75 Billion from One Tax Break Before Congress