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media mention October 16, 2023 Tulsa World: Eliminating State Income Tax Faces Same Challenges It Did More Than Two Decades Ago
More than 20 years ago, during Frank Keating’s second term as governor, he proposed replacing the state’s individual income tax, its sales tax on groceries and its business franchise tax… -
media mention October 15, 2023 Forbes: Mapping Billionaire Wealth: Where The Richest Americans Live Now Vs. Two Decades Ago
Extreme wealth has been consolidating in the United States. Read more. -
media mention October 13, 2023 The Street: Here’s Why Microsoft is Trying to Get Out of Paying its Massive Tax Bill
Corporate tax evasion has become a much more prominent piece of the discussion as Americans have struggled under high inflation, rising energy and home prices. Read more. -
media mention October 10, 2023 The American Prospect: Can States Plug Gaps in Federal Policy?
Expansion of the Child Tax Credit is blocked in Washington, but many states are partly helping. They can do only so much. Read more. -
media mention October 10, 2023 Arkansas Democrat Gazette: State’s Tax Relief Not Created Equal
For the second consecutive special session in about 13 months, the Arkansas General Assembly last month approved a temporary nonrefundable income tax credit for low-income and middle-income taxpayers as part… -
media mention October 6, 2023 CNBC: Supreme Court Tax Case Could Have Sweeping Federal Policy Effects, Experts Say
As the Supreme Court starts a new term, experts are closely watching a case that could have sweeping effects on the U.S. tax code, including corporate revenue and future wealth tax proposals. Read more. -
media mention October 2, 2023 Video: ITEP’s Matt Gardner Discusses IRS Funding & ‘U.S. v. Moore’ SCOTUS Case on The Rick Smith Show
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?.
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media mention October 1, 2023 Capital & Main: Some States Are Fighting Rising Child Poverty With Tax Credits
New Mexico is one of 10 states that have created or expanded child tax credits after Congress let a federal program expire. Read more. -
media mention October 1, 2023 Axios: How the Supreme Court Could Grant $271 Billion in Tax Relief
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… -
media mention September 29, 2023 Newsweek: Supreme Court May Upend the U.S. Tax Structure
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. -
media mention September 27, 2023 The Lever: Justices Have Financial Interest In Major Tax Case
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. -
media mention September 21, 2023 Stateline: As Child Poverty Edges Back Up, States Launch or Expand Their Own Tax Credits
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… -
media mention September 18, 2023 Washington Post Editorial: The Best Vehicle for Addressing Child Poverty is Right Before Our Eyes
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… -
media mention September 14, 2023 Video: ITEP’s Amy Hanauer Talks Poverty and the Child Tax Credit on the Rick Smith Show
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.
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media mention September 13, 2023 Salon: Child Poverty More than Doubled in 2022 Due to Republicans’ Tax Cut Push. Trump Plans for More
Trump and his advisors are setting sights on an aggressive tax cut plan to push during his 2024 campaign. Read more. -
media mention September 12, 2023 Vanity Fair: Donald Trump Wants to Give His Favorite Corporations Another Giant Tax Cut in a Second Term
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… -
media mention September 11, 2023 Washington Post: Trump Advisers Plot Aggressive New Tax Cuts for Second White House Term
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… -
media mention September 7, 2023 New York Times: New Corporate Minimum Tax Ushers In Confusion and a Lobbying Blitz
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… -
media mention August 24, 2023 Mother Jones: The Struggle to Tax the Rich Isn’t Done Yet—In Some States It’s Actually Happening
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… -
media mention August 22, 2023 Mother Jones: “The Wealthy Tend to Always Look Out for Themselves”—The Attack on State Taxes By Outside Groups
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.… -
media mention August 15, 2023 Editorial: Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday is Mostly Hype
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… -
media mention August 14, 2023 Washington Post: Biden Wants Rich Companies to Pay Higher Taxes. Some Are Fighting Back.
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… -
media mention August 4, 2023 New York Times: What’s the Matter With Miami?
For a couple of years after the pandemic struck, there was considerable buzz to the effect that much of the financial industry might leave New York for Miami. After all,… -
media mention August 2, 2023 Chalkboard News: Some States Offer Back-to-School Tax Holidays. Do They Work?
As back-to-school shopping is expected to cost consumers an all-time high, some states have implemented sales-tax holidays aimed at providing some relief. Read more. -
media mention July 28, 2023 Charlotte Observer: NC Republicans Aren’t Worried About the Effects of Tax Cuts. You Should Be.
In mid-summer, the state capital is experiencing an odd mix of anxiety and content. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is warning that plans by Republican state lawmakers to expand private school…