“This is, by definition, all children who are legally supposed to be here in the country,” said Joe Hughes, an analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy who worked on the study
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media mention May 16, 2025 Washington Post: House GOP Plan to Raise Child Tax Credit Adds Citizenship Provisions
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media mention May 15, 2025 NPR: What to Know About a Federal Proposal to Help Families Pay of Private School
A first-of-its-kind effort to leverage federal tax dollars to help families pay for private school tuition anywhere in the U.S. is one step closer to becoming a reality.
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media mention May 13, 2025 The Hill: House Panel Releases Sweeping GOP Tax Bill
“So far this costly bill appears to double down on trickle down, with huge tax cuts that will further enrich the rich and not much for the rest of us,” Amy Hanauer, director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said in a statement in response to Friday’s version of the bill.
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media mention May 13, 2025 Marketwatch: Under New GOP Bill, Multimillionaires Could Dodge the 39.6% Tax Rate Floated by Trump
A higher tax rate on multimillionaires would have been eye-catching, but its revenue would have been less so, by some estimates. Approximately 85% of the income from super-rich households with at least $10 million would have been insulated from a higher rate, according to an analysis from the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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media mention May 13, 2025 Sacramento Bee: Child Tax Credits: California’s Winners and Losers in New GOP Congressional Plan
But there’s also a sobering feature: The parents of an estimated 910,000 California children would lose the credit because their child has at least one undocumented immigrant parent without a Social Security number, according to an analysis by several research groups including Washington’s Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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media mention May 12, 2025 Axios: Who Benefits from Tax Legislation So Far
“So far this costly bill appears to double down on trickle down, with huge tax cuts that will further enrich the rich and not much for the rest of us,” Amy Hanauer, the executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said in a statement over the weekend.
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media mention May 11, 2025 El Pais: The Republican Tax Reform Proposal Makes Remittances More Expensive
The fight against immigration reaches the tax bill, which includes a tax on money transfers that will affect undocumented immigrants. Read more. -
media mention May 1, 2025 CNN: Undocumented Immigrations Contribute More to Social Security than They Receive in Benefits
President Donald Trump’s drive to deport immigrants and block new arrivals could chip away at Social Security’s finances at a time when the program is already on shaky financial footing, experts say.
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media mention April 29, 2025 Stateline: New Tax Cuts Mostly Favor the Rich Across States this Year
Missouri Republicans may take their tax-cutting efforts to new heights this year as lawmakers consider exempting profits from the sale of stocks, bonds and real estate from state income taxes.
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media mention April 25, 2025 CNBC: Trump Tariffs Will Hurt Lower Income Americans More than the Rich, Study Says
Tariffs levied by President Donald Trump during his second term would hurt the poorest U.S. households more than the richest over the short term, according to a new analysis.
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media mention April 23, 2025 WUSF: Lawmakers Want a Nationwide Private School Voucher Program like Florida’s
Lawmakers and school choice advocates gathered in Tampa on Tuesday to promote a federal bill that would create the first nationwide school voucher program.
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media mention April 18, 2025 Vox: There’s No “Right Way” to Immigrate Anymore
The federal government’s assault on immigrants is pushing them to live in the shadows.
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media mention April 18, 2025 The Atlantic: We’re About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like
The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.
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media mention April 18, 2025 MSNBC: Trump is Using His Election Denial Playbook on Social Security
Donald Trump’s administration has taken a sledgehammer to the Social Security system, and it’s using the president’s election denial playbook to do so along the way.
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media mention April 18, 2025 KJZZ Phoenix: As Tax Day Comes and Goes, Advocates Look at Impacts of IRS-DHS Data Share Agreement
This year’s Tax Day came just after the Trump administration finalized a deal with the IRS to hand over data about undocumented immigrant taxpayers.
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media mention April 16, 2025 Thomson Reuters: Pushback Against Trump Plan to End IRS Direct File
Lawmakers and tax policy organization officials sounded off against the Trump administration’s reported intention to end the IRS’ free e-filing program after the only tax filing season it was available to taxpayers… -
media mention April 15, 2025 NBC News: IRS Agreement with ICE to Share Immigrants’ Info Could Lead to Billions Less in Tax Revenue
Like millions of American citizens and immigrants, Ivan filed his taxes last year. But Ivan, 54, a Massachusetts resident who hails from Colombia, is worried a recent agreement between the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement means he is in danger of being deported for doing what he believed was the right thing.
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media mention April 15, 2025 CNN: “People Are Feeling Betrayed”: They Paid Taxes in Good Faith and Now Fear It Could Lead to Their Deportation
A recent data-sharing deal between the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security is sparking widespread concern in immigrant communities – though some details about how the deal could work haven’t been disclosed.
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media mention April 15, 2025 Marketplace: IRS’ Direct File is Free for Millions of Taxpayers, but Not Everyone Wants to Keep It Around.
April 15 is Tax Day. If you haven’t filed yet, one option could be the IRS’ Direct File program, which lets some taxpayers electronically file their returns directly with the agency for free, as opposed to through third-party providers.
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media mention April 14, 2025 Los Angeles Times: IRS Plan to Give Data to ICE Could Wallop California, Where Many Immigrants Pay Taxes
Also like many of her clients, she has routinely paid U.S. taxes in the past using what’s known as an individual taxpayer identification number, or ITIN, in lieu of a Social Security number. The process seemed pretty straightforward, she said, until recently, when Trump administration officials announced that IRS data would be shared with ICE agents and used to target undocumented taxpayers for the first time.
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media mention April 14, 2025 MSNBC: Trumps Social Security Team has Reportedly Marked More than 6,000 Immigrants as Dead
The New York Times was first to report on the administration’s cancellation of immigrants’ lawfully obtained Social Security numbers — essentially listing individuals as dead — as a means to impede their ability to make money or access government services and to pressure them to leave the country.
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media mention April 14, 2025 Times Union: Editorial: Honesty Ought to Pay
The administration of President Donald J. Trump has decided to have the Internal Revenue Service share information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on undocumented immigrants who have been diligently paying taxes on the promise that their files would be confidential.
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media mention April 13, 2025 Arizona Daily Star: Trump’s Deportation Net Widens to Migrants with Legal Status, Taxpayers
The Trump administration has moved to revoke parole protections issued under President Joe Biden and deport migrants like Doralis, who followed all the rules and used CBP One to enter… -
media mention April 11, 2025 NPR: 4 Takeaways from the Week: In a World That Craves Stability, Trump Brings the Chaos
The IRS agrees to share tax information of immigrants in the country without permanent legal status. The IRS previously didn’t in an effort to get immigrants to pay taxes. They paid about $97 billion in taxes in 2022, including about $60 billion to the federal government, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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media mention April 10, 2025 Newsweek: Florida Wants to Cut Property Taxes—But California Has a Warning
As state lawmakers consider cutting and even abolishing property taxes in Florida, California—which passed major reform in the late 1970s protecting homeowners against significant hikes—offers a cautionary tale of how…