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Kansas City Star: Tell Kansas’ Senators Not to Give Ultra-Wealthy a ‘Big Beautiful’ Tax Loophole | Opinion
June 2, 2025
How’s that for a fun new federal tax scam to help the super-wealthy? “Donate” $10 million in stock to charity, purchased for $6 million — then get all $10 million back in tax credits and avoid more than $1 million in capital gains taxes. Massive benefits for already rich individuals — you gotta love it.
Vanity Fair: The GOP’s Big, Beautiful Bind
May 29, 2025
While Republicans made inroads with Black and Latino voters in 2024, they could also surrender such gains. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, in extending and expanding upon Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, rate and bracket changes would “create more racial inequality in our tax system by disproportionately favoring white taxpayers at the expense of others.”
Washington Post: GOP Rejects ‘Millionaire Tax’ Pitch, Advancing Breaks for Rich Americans
May 28, 2025
House Republicans rejected a push by some allies of President Donald Trump to include tax hikes on the rich in sweeping legislation they passed last week — a decision that could carry repercussions into next year’s elections.
Audio: ITEP’s Matt Gardner Discusses SALT Cap on ‘Here & Now'”
May 27, 2025
Lawmakers are divided over how to deal with the state and local tax deduction or SALT, after the House passed its version of the Republican spending bill last week. The cap tends to impact Americans who live in higher-tax states particularly hard.
Cincinnati Enquirer: Ohio Homeowners Want Property Tax Relief. Other States May Offer a Solution
May 26, 2025
"Families are overloaded with their property taxes," said Brakeyshia Samms, a senior analyst for the institute. "The circuit breaker kicks in like an electrical circuit breaker and helps alleviate the pressure that these taxes put on family budgets."
New York Times: Religious Education Lost at the Supreme Court. But It’s Winning Everywhere Else.
May 24, 2025
The court rejected a religious charter school, but conservatives may get much of what they want in a school voucher program that passed the House this week. Read more.
The Guardian: Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Benefits the Rich at the Expense of the Poor
May 24, 2025
Republicans in Congress are trying to pass a new tax and spending bill that may end up being a “big, beautiful bill” – but mostly for wealthy Americans. Read more.
NPR: 9 Things to Know about the Big, Private-School Voucher Plan in Republicans’ Tax Bill
May 23, 2025
"It's about three times as generous as what you're gonna get from donating to a children's hospital or a veteran's group or any other cause," says Carl Davis at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. "It really preferences voucher groups over every other kind of charity."
NBC News: Education Groups Alarmed Over Budget Bill’s Boost for Private Schools
May 23, 2025
“The result would be a profitable tax shelter for wealthy people who agree to help funnel public funds into private schools,” Amy Hanauer, the institute’s executive director, said in the webinar. “That is to say they would get more money by donating their stock than by selling it.”
Axios: Child Tax Benefit Increase Leaves out Millions of Kids, Analysis Says
May 23, 2025
Under current law, families need upward of $30,000 a year to receive the full tax credit amount, explains Joe Hughes, senior analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
The American Prospect: The Curious Case of the Republican Medicaid Turncoats
May 23, 2025
“It’s not surprising that this bill was written behind closed doors and rushed through in the night before Americans had a chance to see what it contains,” Amy Hanauer, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told the Prospect. “This bill extends enormous tax cuts to those who have the most. It will increase inequality, reduce health coverage, and take food from people’s tables, all to shower the wealthiest people in this country and foreign investors with tax breaks.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: What Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Will Mean to Pa. — and It’s Not Pretty
May 23, 2025
“This bill overall would cut all sorts of benefits for all sorts of Americans who rely on them, whether it’s health care or food assistance or energy credits,” said Jon Whiten, ITEP deputy director. “It’s all being done to find enough money to jam through all of these tax cuts which disproportionately would go to the wealthiest Americans. It’s a little bit like Robin Hood in reverse here.”
Inc.: Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Offers a Big Tax Win for Small Businesses
May 22, 2025
The bill that the House of Representatives passed early Thursday morning in a nail-biting 215-to-214 vote—a wide-ranging domestic policy package called the One Big Beautiful Bill—could have wide-ranging and long-lasting implications for U.S. small businesses. Read more.
Washington Post: House GOP Plan to Raise Child Tax Credit Adds Citizenship Provisions
May 16, 2025
“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
NPR: What to Know About a Federal Proposal to Help Families Pay of Private School
May 15, 2025
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.
The Hill: House Panel Releases Sweeping GOP Tax Bill
May 13, 2025
“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.
Marketwatch: Under New GOP Bill, Multimillionaires Could Dodge the 39.6% Tax Rate Floated by Trump
May 13, 2025
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.
Sacramento Bee: Child Tax Credits: California’s Winners and Losers in New GOP Congressional Plan
May 13, 2025
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.
Axios: Who Benefits from Tax Legislation So Far
May 12, 2025
"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.
El Pais: The Republican Tax Reform Proposal Makes Remittances More Expensive
May 11, 2025
The fight against immigration reaches the tax bill, which includes a tax on money transfers that will affect undocumented immigrants. Read more.
CNN: Undocumented Immigrations Contribute More to Social Security than They Receive in Benefits
May 1, 2025
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.
Stateline: New Tax Cuts Mostly Favor the Rich Across States this Year
April 29, 2025
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.
CNBC: Trump Tariffs Will Hurt Lower Income Americans More than the Rich, Study Says
April 25, 2025
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.
WUSF: Lawmakers Want a Nationwide Private School Voucher Program like Florida’s
April 23, 2025
Lawmakers and school choice advocates gathered in Tampa on Tuesday to promote a federal bill that would create the first nationwide school voucher program.
Vox: There’s No “Right Way” to Immigrate Anymore
April 18, 2025
The federal government’s assault on immigrants is pushing them to live in the shadows.
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