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media mention October 31, 2020 BBC: US Election 2020: Fact-checking Trump and Biden’s Final Week
In 2018, 91 of the top 500 companies in the US effectively paid no tax, according to a report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Despite making almost… -
media mention October 30, 2020 Chicago Tribune: Commentary: How Illinois’ Small Businesses Will Benefit from a Graduated-rate Income Tax
Recent studies have shown that for decades, the current flat tax structure has only worsened income inequality throughout the state, stunting much-needed revenue and consumer spending. The Institute on Taxation… -
media mention October 30, 2020 Deadline: Joe Biden Slams Netflix & Amazon On Taxes, Again
The tax debate flared after President Donald Trump and the Republicans reworked the corporate tax code in 2016, slashing the corporate tax rate to 21%, from 35%. A widely cited analysis by… -
media mention October 30, 2020 Yahoo! Finance: Here’s How the Biden Tax Plan Would Affect Each State
Biden’s plan would generate over $289 billion in tax revenue, according to research from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). About 1.9% of the U.S. population would see… -
media mention October 29, 2020 New York Times: Say Yes to Progressive Taxation
California is at the top of that list, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. But there is room for improvement. For the last four decades, property taxation… -
media mention October 29, 2020 Newsweek: Joe Biden Tax Calculator—How Democrat Candidate’s Plan Will Affect You
A report earlier this month by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C., noted: “Just 1.9 percent of taxpayers would see… -
media mention October 29, 2020 Fox Business: Trump vs. Biden’s tax plans: How much would you pay?
According to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy on the overall impact of Biden’s proposed personal income tax and payroll tax increases for 2022, taxes would be projected… -
media mention October 27, 2020 CBS News: Comparing Trump and Biden’s Tax Plans
ITEP Senior Fellow appeared on CBS News to discuss President Trump and Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden’s Tax Plan. Watch -
media mention October 27, 2020 Forbes: The Tax Credit That Could Produce Rare Agreement On Pandemic Relief
The TCJA changes moved the needle for approximately 550,000 children living in poverty by lifting them above the poverty line, according to a 2019 report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy… -
media mention October 27, 2020 Yahoo! Finance: Ex-Trump adviser Gary Cohn would back Biden’s proposed 28% corporate tax rate
The Trump administration’s tax overhaul has come under criticism given persistent loopholes that allow corporations to drive the effective rate well below the statutory level. In 2018, the work arounds… -
media mention October 26, 2020 Rolling Stone: How Trump Took the Middle Class to the Cleaners
The Christmas present Trump promised the middle class turned out to be a trinket. The tax cut’s benefits to middle-wage earners worked out to about $65 a month, according to… -
media mention October 26, 2020 In These Times: Billionaires Are Fighting the Fair Tax Because They Don’t Want to Pay up
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy recently released a study looking at how Illinois’ current flat tax structure amounts to a massive racialized wealth transfer from the poorest workers to the… -
media mention October 26, 2020 DailyKos: All Those Wild Trump Economic Promises Were Just More Ruinous Trickle Down
The Christmas present Trump promised the middle class turned out to be a trinket. The tax cut’s benefits to middle-wage earners worked out to about $65 a month, according to numbers… -
media mention October 24, 2020 City Watch: Biden Tax Plan Would Make America More Equal
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has crunched the numbers: In 2022, under Biden’s plan, the nation’s top 1 percent would bear 97 percent of the direct tax increases Biden… -
media mention October 23, 2020 The American Independent: Trump swears he’s bringing jobs back to the US. He’s done the opposite
Additionally, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy notes, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which slashed taxes for the superwealthy and benefited large businesses, included a loophole offering… -
media mention October 16, 2020 New York Times: Fact Checking Trump and Biden Town Halls
Data compiled by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a liberal research organization in Washington, show that 91 profitable Fortune 500 companies did not pay taxes on the income… -
media mention October 16, 2020 MSNBC:Trump is eyeing another corporate tax cut
And as Biden noted, many corporations aren’t even paying taxes at the current rate. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released a detailed study in 2018 that found of… -
media mention October 15, 2020 Center for Public Integrity: The Heist
“It’s pretty clear that the PPP process was run in a way that pushed needy small businesses to the back of the line while prioritizing the influential,” said Matthew Gardner,… -
media mention October 14, 2020 WGLT: What To Know About Illinois’ Graduated Tax Amendment
Proponents of the amendment, including Pritzker, cite a breakdown which shows the bottom 20 percent of Illinois earners pay 14.4 percent of their total income to state and local taxes,… -
media mention October 13, 2020 Washington Times: Spending plans by Biden, Trump would hike federal debt by $5 trillion over 10 years
Under his plan, 97% of the tax increases would fall on the top 1% of earners, according to new projections from the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “Only… -
media mention October 12, 2020 Progressive.org: ‘Sheer Cruelty, Racism, and Disregard’
Trump’s badmouthing of undocumented immigrants ignores the $11.7 billion that they contribute annually in state and local taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. It also creates… -
media mention October 9, 2020 Yahoo! Finance: A Breakdown of Biden’s Tax Proposals
Matt Gardner, Senior Fellow at The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy joins Yahoo Finance’s Kristin Myers for a break down of Joe Biden’s tax proposals. Watch the video -
media mention October 9, 2020 Boston.com: Mike Pence incorrectly claimed Joe Biden’s plan would raise taxes on ‘every’ American. Here’s what it would actually do
Pence was correct that Biden twice said during the first presidential debate he was “going to eliminate the Trump tax cuts.” According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy,… -
media mention October 7, 2020 Money: VP Debate: Where Kamala Harris Stands on Taxes, Health Care and Stimulus Checks
“The CARES Act gave Americans an important one-time payment, but it’s clear that wasn’t nearly enough to meet the needs of this historic crisis,” Harris said in a statement. But… -
media mention October 7, 2020 Washington Post: How the Cares Act gave millions to energy companies with no strings attached
“The Cares Act tax provisions were too heavily tilted towards large businesses and away from at-risk individuals,” said Matt Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic…