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media mention August 5, 2015 Canton Repository: Tax-Free Days Give Shoppers a Break
A 2013 analysis on the impact of a tax holiday in Ohio by the Economics Center at the University of Cincinnati found that while retail sales would increase close to… -
media mention August 4, 2015 LA Times: Conservatives are Trying to Prove Income Inequality is a Myth — and Failing
Taxes? Feldstein employs a familiar sleight-of-hand by limiting his analysis to federal taxes, which are still progressive. Factor in state and local levies, and the middle- and working classes are… -
media mention August 4, 2015 Morrow County Sentinel: Sales Tax Holiday: What Does it Mean for Ohio?
Research from the University of Cincinnati Economics Center estimates an almost five percent boost in sales during a sales tax holiday, with average families saving about $38. But according to… -
media mention July 31, 2015 Chattanooga Times Free Press: Back to School Goods are Tax-Free This Weekend in Georgia
Another critic of sales tax holidays is Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a non-profit, non-partisan research organization with offices in Washington D.C.,… -
media mention July 29, 2015 The Herald News: Sen. Michael Rodrigues: Why I Oppose the Massachusetts Sales Tax Holiday
It is that time of year again on Beacon Hill, when the Legislature debates and ultimately passes a sales tax holiday for a weekend in August. Let’s be clear, the… -
media mention July 28, 2015 Hawaii News Now: Film Tax Credits Attract Productions to Hawaii
The filming is almost finished for a new movie being shot entirely Hawaii. The state’s film tax credits are bringing in big productions like “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,”… -
media mention July 28, 2015 NBC: Sales Tax Holidays Complex, Controversial, But Popular With Shoppers
Research by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy contends that increased sales during the tax holidays “have been shown to be primarily the result of consumers’ shifting the… -
media mention July 27, 2015 Sun Herald: Sales Tax Holiday Weekend Arrives July 31
“The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington, D.C., believes sales tax holidays are poorly targeted, providing tax breaks to the wealthiest taxpayers and offering less assistance to the… -
media mention July 24, 2015 CNBC: Tax-Free Shopping Ahead for These States
Research by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, however, contends that increased sales during the tax holidays “have been shown to be primarily the result of consumers’ shifting… -
media mention July 24, 2015 CNN Money: States Raise Sales, Cigarette Taxes
Faced with a $1 billion budget gap, Connecticut this year adopted an array of tax changes, including increasing the top income tax rate to 6.9% and adding a 6.99% rate… -
media mention July 22, 2015 CNBC: Is Your State a Gas Tax Winner–Or Loser?
As states from Connecticut to California scramble to find money to fix crumbling highways, Congress once again is expected this week to put a short-term patch on the nearly insolvent… -
media mention July 20, 2015 The Beacon Journal: Anxieties of the middle class
“The Kasich tax cuts produce the opposite effects. An analysis of the recently passed two-year state budget by the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy, of Washington, D.C., for Policy… -
media mention July 20, 2015 Herald Sun: Letter to the Editor
Let’s step aside from heated immigration debate for a moment and pragmatically deconstruct the merits of House Bill 328. The “Highway Safety/Citizens Protection Act” provides an avenue for undocumented immigrants… -
media mention July 20, 2015 The Times-Picayune: Why Aren’t the Governor’s Candidates Discussing Poverty?: Robert Mann
Speaking of inequality, it’s not bad enough just to be poor in Louisiana. You can also count on state and local governments taxing you twice as much as the wealthy.… -
media mention July 20, 2015 Daily Leader: Sales Tax Holiday Presents Dilemma
“Sales tax holidays are advertised as a way to give people a break from paying the sales tax, typically during the “back to school” shopping season. Superficially this sounds good,… -
media mention July 20, 2015 Sun Sentinel: Businesses Getting Bigger Breaks to Move or Expand
Broward and Palm Beach counties have awarded millions of taxpayer dollars for company relocations or expansions in recent months, including two major deals completed in just the past two weeks.… -
media mention July 20, 2015 Watchdog: No More Free Rides? Oregon Pay-As-You-Go Plan Could One Day Fund Highways
“If infrastructure costs rise by a modest 2 percent a year, the tax will lose 18 percent of its value within a decade, leaving the state facing the same long-run… -
media mention July 20, 2015 Huffington Post: Did A Giant Pothole Swallow Your Car? Blame Congress.
The issue, said Carl Davis, research director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, is growing in importance every year that state and federal governments fail to update gas… -
media mention July 15, 2015 Columbus Dispatch: Budget Doesn’t Do Right by Poor Ohioans
One immoral aspect of Ohio’s budget is the ongoing tax shift that blesses the rich and slaps the poor. According to a recent Dispatch article, the Institute on Taxation and… -
media mention July 13, 2015 State Tax Notes: States Increase Gas Tax in Push for Transportation Funds
In the absence of a national gasoline tax increase, states have been raising their gas taxes to fund long-deferred road maintenance and transportation projects. “I think what’s happening now is… -
media mention July 13, 2015 Decatur Daily: BP Settlement Doesn’t Change Need for Tax Reform
The fiscal 2016 budget shortfall has been inevitable since at least fiscal 2010. Rational tax reform would not increase taxes for most Alabamians. Low- and middle-income Alabamians pay more than… -
media mention July 13, 2015 Michigan Live: Road Repair Needs Trump ‘No Tax’ Mantra in Several GOP States
Eight states, all but one of them headed by Republican governors, have either hiked gas taxes or scaled back planned cuts in order to fund road repairs this year, according… -
media mention July 13, 2015 Cheat Sheet: 10 Worst States in America for Fair Tax Systems
Americans generally believe that higher income households should pay a greater percentage of their incomes in taxes than lower income households. Yet the exact opposite occurs. The Institute on Taxation… -
media mention July 9, 2015 New York Mag: Rick Perry, Republicans, and the African-American Vote
Empowering state and local governments would make African-Americans more vulnerable to the whims of the very governments that have served them poorly. The state and local tax base is highly… -
media mention July 8, 2015 TI News Daily: Some States Prefer Transportation Over Tax relief
To meet infrastructure needs, several states have had to increase other taxes, such as gasoline taxes. These states include Idaho, Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska, North Carolina, Kentucky, Utah and South Dakota.…