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media mention October 3, 2020 FAIR: Steve Wamhoff on Trump’s Taxes
We’ll talk about takeaways from Trump’s taxes with Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Listen -
media mention October 3, 2020 Forbes: The $750 Question: How Trump’s Taxes Reveal The Deep Unfairness Of The U.S. Tax Code
“There are certainly some tax advantages available to larger corporations that are practically unavailable to individuals. Most large businesses have full-time staff available to help negotiate the tax laws,” said… -
media mention October 2, 2020 Chicago Sun-Times: Illinois needs the Fair Tax for racial equity
An analysis by the non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy shows that, between 1999 and 2019, the state’s current flat rate income tax dramatically increased the racial wealth gap,… -
media mention October 2, 2020 In These Times: It’s Cheap to Be Rich
As the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy explained: “The mechanisms Amazon has used to reduce its three-year federal income tax rate to zero between 2017 and 2019 are legal.… -
media mention October 2, 2020 Jacobin Magazine: Abraham Lincoln Taxed the Rich. This Election Day, Illinois Can, Too.
Illinois now boasts one of the most unfair tax systems in the country. According to a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the state’s flat tax… -
media mention October 1, 2020 Newsweek: What VP Candidate Kamala Harris Has Said About a Second Stimulus Check
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy conducted an analysis of the plan, finding that its 10-month price tag could be at least $5.6 trillion—more than twice the amount of… -
media mention September 29, 2020 WGN NewsNation: President Trump calls income tax report ‘fake news,’ says he’s still under IRS audit
Matt Gardner is with the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington. He spoke with NewsNation’s Dean Reynolds about the New York Times report. “This isn’t news that the… -
media mention September 29, 2020 Marketwatch: Trump’s 2017 tax bill was reportedly $750 — here’s how that stacks up against the average American’s taxes
That’s according to an analysis from Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the left-leaning Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy. (Wamhoff looked at income tax liabilities by adjusted… -
media mention September 29, 2020 Bloomberg: Trump’s reported $750 federal income tax bill is smaller than the average payment by an American household making $20,000 a year
The data — drawn from the IRS — shows Trump’s tax payment is less compared to households earning between $20,000 and $25,000 each year. Around 9 million people filed tax… -
media mention September 29, 2020 Bloomberg: Profitable Losses, or How Trump Trimmed His Taxes: QuickTake
An article by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy on tax breaks for real-estate investors like Trump. Read more -
media mention September 29, 2020 Business Insider: I made $10,500 as a freelancer in 2018 — and still paid more taxes than Trump. The system is broken.
According to a 2019 report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, 60 companies, including Netflix, Chevron, and Eli Lilly, did not pay federal income taxes in 2018. “Instead… -
media mention September 29, 2020 TRT World: Trump’s tax returns reveal a system that rewards all of America’s elite
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy analysed SEC filings of Fortune 500 companies and identified 60 major corporations that didn’t report any federal income tax expenses in 2019. Read… -
media mention September 29, 2020 Scoop: ‘The American People Should Be Pissed Off’: Critics Say Trump Tax Dodging Exposes System Rotten to the Core
Steve Wamhoff, federal policy director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, noted in a statement that the Times reporting does “not include Trump’s tax returns for 2018 and… -
media mention September 29, 2020 Washington Post: A pug, a cat and a baby have paid more in taxes than Trump reportedly has
Undocumented immigrants paid more than $11 billion in taxes in 2017, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. That same year, Trump paid just $750, according to the New… -
media mention September 29, 2020 CBS News: 7 takeaways from New York Times report on President Trump’s tax returns
At the same time Ivanka Trump was an executive officer of the Trump companies, she both profited from the hotels and the consulting fees, the Times story noted. The IRS… -
media mention September 29, 2020 Associated Press: Trump Went Even Further Than Other Uber-rich to Shrink Taxes
So say tax experts in the wake of a New York Times report Sunday that found that Trump paid only $750 in taxes in both 2016 and 2017 — and… -
media mention September 29, 2020 CBS News: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Trump for paying less in taxes than “waitresses and undocumented immigrants”
Former Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro joined Ocasio-Cortez’s criticism, citing a figure from the the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy that found undocumented immigrants pay nearly $12 billion in federal… -
media mention September 29, 2020 Orlando Sentinel: Trump’s tax strategy: Unfair or just good business?
Many large companies, including Amazon, General Motors and IBM, paid no taxes in 2018, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Something is wrong with the tax code,… -
media mention September 29, 2020 Common Dreams: The American people should be angry’: Critics say Trump tax dodging exposes a system rotten to the core
Steve Wamhoff, federal policy director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, noted in a statement that the Times reporting does “not include Trump’s tax returns for 2018 and… -
media mention September 28, 2020 Washington Post: What Trump’s and Biden’s competing economic agendas reveal about the economy
Inequality also interacts with money and politics to block the very types of productive, equalizing spending that Biden proposes, while insisting on the nonproductive tax cuts that partially drive the… -
media mention September 28, 2020 Investopedia: How Fortune 500 Companies Avoid Paying Income Tax
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) found that over the eight-year period from 2008 to 2015, 258 profitable Fortune 500 companies paid an average effective federal income tax rate of… -
media mention September 25, 2020 Salon: Obamacare lawsuit heading to Supreme Court would slash taxes for top 0.1%
The lawsuit was filed after Senate Republicans unsuccessfully tried to repeal Obamacare despite campaigning on the issue for years. “Repealing ObamaCare has always been about tax cuts for the rich,”… -
media mention September 23, 2020 Route 50: Why States and Localities Should Increase—Not Decrease—Spending
As the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) wrote in an April report, “Even with more federal support, states will need home-grown revenue solutions in the short, medium and long… -
media mention September 21, 2020 Politico Morning Tax: Digging in on SALT
Matt Gardner of the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy thought this particular portion of the SALT debate had a number of layers to it. Among them: Deductions for… -
media mention September 18, 2020 New York Times: Morning Newsletter
Many states have tax systems that are regressive: They take a greater share of income from the poor than the rich. And because a disproportionate share of the richest taxpayers…