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media mention July 5, 2018 24/7 Wall Street: 10 States With the Lowest Gas Prices Get Government Help
While oil prices are the major component of gas prices, state taxes are often overlooked. And they are unlikely to change very much. According to the Institute on Taxation and… -
media mention July 5, 2018 The Nation: Will Red-State Protests Spark Electoral Change?
State lawmakers came “out of the gate in 2011 with a pretty regressive, large-scale tax-cut plan,” said Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP),… -
media mention July 2, 2018 USA Today: Gas Taxes Rise Sunday in Seven States as AAA Projects Record Travel for July 4th
Massive teacher protests this spring in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Kentucky and other states prompted the Oklahoma Legislature to raise taxes on cigarettes, fuel and oil and gas production to pay for… -
media mention July 2, 2018 Augusta Free Press: Rising Gas Prices, Health Costs Mitigate Impact of Tax Cuts
Meanwhile, six months after passage of the tax cut law, Virginia’s wealthiest one percent will be watching fireworks at the country club in great comfort knowing that their tax cuts… -
media mention July 2, 2018 Seattle Times: Fight Heats up over Washington State Carbon ‘Fee’ Likely to Make Fall Ballot
Opponents criticize the measure as a regressive tax on Washingtonians. They note that the state — with a sales tax but no income tax — already is considered to have… -
media mention June 29, 2018 American Prospect: The Two Biggest Lies in Donald Trump’s Tax Plan
Following is an excerpt from an essay in the American Prospect by ITEP Senior Fellow Matt Gardner: Despite a full-court charm offensive by the White House, its media surrogates, and… -
media mention June 29, 2018 San Antonio Express News: Why Immigrants Come
What’s needed is a change of policy and a change of focus. The objective should not be to decrease the supply of labor needed in the farm fields and hospitality… -
media mention June 28, 2018 Fast Company: AT&T’s Long Partnership with NSA Is Just Another Swamp Romance
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy said AT&T enjoyed an effective tax rate of just 8 percent between 2008 and 2015, despite the fact that the company enjoyed record… -
media mention June 28, 2018 American Prospect: Massive Spending Cuts, the Tax Act’s Hidden Costs
According to an analysis released last year by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, those in the bottom fifth of the income distribution paid just under 7 percent of… -
media mention June 27, 2018 Bloomberg BNA: Fix’ for Federal Cap on State Tax Deduction? K-12 Tax Credits
But the very same charge can be made against the tax credit programs for private K-12 schools, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy said in its report. These programs… -
media mention June 27, 2018 Wall Street Journal: As Treasury Targets Workarounds to Tax Law, Impact May Extend Beyond High-Tax States
Tax experts say the federal government will find it difficult if not impossible to write rules to stop the workarounds in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut without also limiting… -
media mention June 27, 2018 Consumer Reports: Sales Tax Ruling May Have Limited Impact
Most states currently have some kind of sales tax, though the amount—and what items or services are taxed—varies widely from state to state. Some experts think states will need to… -
media mention June 27, 2018 The American Prospect: Raises and Bonuses, The PR Fraud
It’s hard to imagine a greater encouragement for companies to shift as much profit overseas as possible, mostly to low- or no-tax havens. By the time the tax debate began,… -
media mention June 26, 2018 Governing: Why New Jersey Is Headed for Another Shutdown
But Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, notes that the federal corporate income tax cut also has an effect on high-income earners. Historically,… -
media mention June 22, 2018 NPR: Supreme Court Ruling Means Some Online Purchases Will Cost More
While the court made clear that the states do not have unlimited power to require sales tax collection, “The court blessed South Dakota’s law,” said Carl Davis, research director for… -
media mention June 22, 2018 New York Times: Supreme Court Widens Reach of Sales Tax for Online Retailers
The decision, in South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., was a victory for brick-and-mortar businesses that have long complained they are put at a disadvantage by having to charge sales taxes… -
media mention June 22, 2018 CNBC: Here’s What That Supreme Court Sales Tax Decision Means for You
If you haven’t been doing this, you might get a nasty surprise at checkout if your state successfully pushes online merchants to collect those taxes. “This is about improved enforcement… -
media mention June 22, 2018 CNBC: Trump Celebrates Supreme Court Decision that Could Force His Online Store to Collect More Taxes
The store, which brands itself as “the official retail website of The Trump Organization,” currently names just four states in which it collects sales taxes. Before April, only two were… -
media mention June 22, 2018 Buffalo News: Sales Tax Ruling Will Help Stores Compete Against Online Retailers
Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington think tank, was quoted in The New York Times saying, “State and local governments have really… -
media mention June 22, 2018 Market Insider: Trump Praises Supreme Court Decision on Sales Tax
A Trump Organization representative did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider on how the Supreme Court decision could affect TrumpStore.com. When New York was added to… -
media mention June 20, 2018 Reuters: How U.S. Tax Reform Rewards Companies that Shift Profit to Tax Havens
“If the guardrails in the new territorial system were meant to prevent companies from avoiding all taxes, AbbVie’s (tax rate) is a pretty clear signal that these guardrails may not… -
media mention June 20, 2018 USA Today: After Losing Fight to Levy ‘Amazon tax,’ Seattle Is Back to Square One on Helping Homeless
The construction pause “was a concrete action as opposed to just a threat,” said Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit in Washington,… -
media mention June 20, 2018 Cleveland Plain Dealer: Our Immigrant Neighbors Are Not Violent Criminals to Be Uprooted and Separated from Their Children
According to a 2017 study carried out for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C. research organization, undocumented immigrants collectively pay almost $12 billion a year in state… -
media mention June 15, 2018 NorthJersey.com: NJ Lottery Operator Northstar Wants $97 Million Raise and Less Money for New Jersey
In neighboring Pennsylvania, the Legislature in 2014 approved decreasing the minimum profit margin from 27 percent to 25 percent and projected net revenue would increase by $40 million over the… -
media mention June 12, 2018 Washington Post: Seattle Council Votes to Repeal Tax to Help Homeless Amid Opposition from Amazon, other Businesses
“There’s a bargaining power problem here, and cities are on the wrong side of it,” said Matthew Gardner, a tax policy analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy,… -
media mention June 9, 2018 Springfield (Mass) Republican: Tax Breaks That Help Students Attend Private School Could Be Repealed
“This is a brand new tax break that was created automatically by an obscure linkage to federal law, and whether lawmakers want to offer it or not is worth discussing,”… -
media mention June 8, 2018 Politico Morning Tax: More on the Way Out
GUILTY OF WANTING TO CHANGE GILTI: House Democrats, led by Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon, have rolled out a bill that would revamp the international system Republicans crafted in the… -
media mention June 7, 2018 The (Maine) Free Press: Where the Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates Should Stand on the Issues
In the past several years, the LePage administration and now the Trump administration have been very kind to higher-income earners. In 2011, the governor signed a $400 million tax cut,… -
media mention June 4, 2018 CNBC: Donate to charitable funds and nab a tax break in these states — for now
How the IRS will ultimately proceed remains to be seen, but experts agree that the agency may take a closer look at programs with generous tax credits. “It’s when you… -
media mention May 31, 2018 Reno News and Review: Tax Hike?
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the poorest 20 percent of Nevada families pay 6.1 percent of their income in sales tax. The wealthiest one percent of… -
media mention May 30, 2018 Urban Milwaukee: What’s Wrong with Illinois?
Although Illinois is widely viewed as a blue state because of its recent record of supporting Democratic presidential candidates, from a “who pays” angle it looks much more like a… -
media mention May 25, 2018 Politifact: Scott Dawson distorts Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s Grant Funding
But Matt Gardner, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said there is a distinction between tax dollars and taxpayer dollars. “User fees are, technically, not ‘tax… -
media mention May 24, 2018 Reuters: U.S. Treasury Readies Crackdown on SALT Workarounds
But the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, or ITEP, warned that narrow action could have unintended consequences for federal charitable donations if the government imposes arbitrary distinctions between… -
media mention May 24, 2018 New York Times: I.R.S. Warns States Not to Circumvent State and Local Tax Cap
Carl Davis, the research director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington, said that Alabama provides a 100 percent state tax credit for taxpayers who donate money… -
media mention May 24, 2018 Washington Post: NJ Democrats Loved the Idea of Taxing the Rich Until They Could Actually Do It
A spokesman for Sweeney, the state Senate president, said families earning over $1.1 million in New Jersey already face an average $738 tax hike under the GOP law, citing data… -
media mention May 24, 2018 Politico Morning Tax: Is the End Near
Along those same lines, some liberals are clearly a bit queasy about the idea of the state SALT maneuvers, given that most of the benefits flow to top earners. But… -
media mention May 24, 2018 Washington Times: Treasury Department Warns States over SALT Workarounds
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank, issued a new report Wednesday warning the Treasury not to single out the blue states, saying if they’re going… -
media mention May 16, 2018 NBC: What Trump’s disclosure of his 500 LLCs can and can’t tell us
A 2015 report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan, tax policy think tank, said Delaware’s tax code made it “a magnet for people looking to create… -
media mention May 16, 2018 San Francisco Chronicle: How Amazon and Entrepreneurs Can Pay Zero Federal Income Tax, and Do So Legally
With the recent news that Amazon paid zero federal taxes for 2017, every entrepreneur should be asking, :”How can my company pay no taxes, and legally, too?” According to the… -
media mention May 16, 2018 Bloomberg: The Kochs Helped Slash State Taxes. Now Teachers Are in the Streets
“There’s this promise,” says Meg Wiehe of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “ ‘We’re going to put more money in your pockets. We’re going to let your family decide… -
media mention May 16, 2018 USA Today: Amazon Tax over Head Tax Foreshadows Battles to Come in other Cities
In Washington state, neither state or local government are allowed to tax income. In addition, state law caps real estate tax increases to no more than 1% a year. “It’s… -
media mention May 16, 2018 CNN: North Carolina teachers want better pay and they’re marching to fight for it
Mark Jewell, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, has said the state could be spending a lot more on schools if it hadn’t shrunk revenues by lowering corporate… -
media mention May 15, 2018 Seattle Times: Coalition Abandons Initiative Requiring Legislature to ‘Balance’ Washington’s Tax Code
It’s no great secret that Washington state has a regressive tax system, meaning people with modest incomes pay a comparatively high share of it in state and local taxes. The… -
media mention May 14, 2018 Seattle Weekly: Seattle City Council Passes Reduced Head Tax
This comes on the heels of a 2015 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report that showed Washington has the most regressive tax system in the country because of its high… -
media mention May 12, 2018 News & Observer: Arizona Income Tax story
Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said the public could be more likely to support income tax hikes since federal tax debate in the… -
media mention May 12, 2018 Valdosta Daily Times: T-SPLOST: Good for our community
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the fuel tax in Georgia actually increased .3 cents on gasoline and .4 cents on diesel in 2017. The fuel tax… -
media mention May 11, 2018 Associated Press: Arizona Voters May Be Asked Whether They Want to Tax High Earners to Fund Education
Ballot initiatives to hike taxes on the rich are rare but not unheard of. A measure in Washington state in 2010 to adopt an income tax for individuals who make… -
media mention May 11, 2018 Marketplace: Tax cuts: Have they benefited Indiana’s economy?
As for the potential long-term consequences, the richest Indiana taxpayers will receive the largest average tax cuts in 2027 (with an average cut of $4,840), while taxes would go up slightly… -
media mention May 9, 2018 Working Life Podcast: A shift in the air on tax cuts?; Arizona uprising update; Inequality is worse than you think
The teachers’ uprisings around the nation have challenged the bankrupt ideology of supply-side tax cutting—and maybe marks a shift in the public’s view of taxes and public spending. Jonathan Tasini talks… -
media mention May 8, 2018 CNN: North Carolina teachers will be the next to walk out. Here’s what they want
An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy finds North Carolina would have $3.5 billion more in annual revenue if lawmakers had not changed the tax system that…