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media mention July 31, 2024 Audio: ITEP’s Carl Davis Talks About the Tax Contributions of Utah’s Undocumented Immigrants
A new study describes states that the tax contributions of undocumented immigrants equate to almost $100 billion, both federally and statewide. Read more or listen here. -
media mention July 31, 2024 States Newsroom: Study Says Undocumented Immigrants Paid Almost $100 Billion in Taxes
A new study shows that undocumented immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue in 2022 while many are shut out of the programs their taxes… -
media mention July 31, 2024 Video: ITEP’s Marco Guzman on the Tax Contribution of Maine’s Undocumented Immigrants
A new national study is shedding light on the economic contributions made by undocumented immigrants in Maine and throughout the United States, WMTW-TV in Maine reports. Watch the clip or… -
media mention July 30, 2024 McClatchy DC: Undocumented Immigrants in California Are Paying Billions in Taxes. Here’s How Much.
Amid pledges for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants by presidential candidate Donald Trump, a new study has highlighted the increasingly positive economic effects of this community. The report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington-based progressive research group, found undocumented immigrants nationwide paid an estimated $96.7 billion in taxes in 2022. About $37.3 billion was spent on state and local taxes, and the rest went to federal taxes.
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media mention July 30, 2024 Bloomberg: Undocumented Immigrants in US Pay Nearly $100 Billion in Taxes
Undocumented immigrants paid almost $100 billion of taxes, underscoring the importance of border policies on the country’s tax collections, according to a new report. Read more. -
media mention July 19, 2024 USA Today: America’s Billionaires Are Worth a Record $6T. Where Does That Leave the Rest of Us?
America’s billionaires are now collectively worth a record $6 trillion. Their wealth has more than doubled since the passage of the landmark Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017. Is… -
media mention July 16, 2024 Quartz: ‘Trump Trade’ Is Back in Focus
The world’s financial markets are growing increasingly open to the likelihood that former President Donald Trump will make his way to a second term in the White House. All it took was outperforming President Joe Biden on a debate stage and surviving an assassination attempt.
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media mention July 15, 2024 Route 50: States, Cities Consider ‘Mansion Taxes’ to Fund Affordable Housing
States and cities have been throwing darts at the wall, trying to find dedicated funding to tackle affordable housing needs. Nationwide, tens of millions of families are struggling amid a housing shortage with rent and housing costs. Home prices are up about 60% over the past decade, adjusted for inflation. And about a quarter of renters—some 12 million households—spend more than half their income on housing, which is far above the recommended 30%. To support affordable housing development and other initiatives in the rapidly growing Denver area, Mayor Mike Johnston on Monday unveiled a proposed new tax that would add 0.5% atop Denver’s current effective 8.81% sales tax rate. The tax is estimated to bring in $100 million a year in proceeds for the efforts.
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media mention July 11, 2024 Nonprofit Quarterly: Can Taxes Reduce Inequality? What a Study of State and Local Taxes Tells Us
Who pays? Along with its companion question of “who benefits,” “who pays” has long been a central concern of both politics and economics. Earlier this year, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) published Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, its seventh study on the topic since 1996 and its first since 2018.
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media mention July 10, 2024 The 19th News: Republicans Want to Kill the Dept. of Ed and Privatize Education. Billionaires Are Helping Them.
In the fall, the Department of Education will mark 45 years since its inception, but that anniversary could be its last if Donald Trump gets his way. The federal agency is one of several he’s vowed to slash if reelected president.
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media mention July 10, 2024 Education Week: A State Considers a Future in Which Schools Can’t Rely on Property Taxes
What would a world without property taxes look like? In every state, revenue from property taxes is one of the biggest sources of K-12 school funding. But that could change soon as efforts ramp up in a handful of states to abandon property taxes altogether, or at least as a funding source for schools.
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media mention July 3, 2024 Connecticut Mirror: Could CT Fight Homelessness With a ‘Mansion Tax’? Yes, Report Says
State government could raise as much as $180 million annually to combat homelessness or address other social needs by boosting its tax on the sale of high-value houses, according to a recent report from two Washington fiscal think tanks.
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media mention July 3, 2024 The Globalist: Will American Monetocracy Ever Come to an End?
It used to be that the United States prided itself on being a meritocracy. No more. It is increasingly a country with a cult of money and rule by moneyed elites. Not so much an oligarchy as a monetocracy.
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media mention June 27, 2024 New York Times: Newsom Uses Annual State Address to Confront Republicans Across the Nation
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, whose liberal state has been hammered by Republicans for months as a hellscape of homelessness, crime and high taxes, used his annual State of the State address on Tuesday to slam “conservatives and delusional California bashers” and defend “the California way of life.”
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media mention June 26, 2024 Sacramento Bee: Governor Gavin Newsom Claims California Is Not a ‘High-Tax State.’ Is He Correct?
“Here’s the truth Republicans never tell you: California is not a high tax state,” Gov. Gavin Newsom declared Tuesday in his taped State of the State address.
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media mention June 26, 2024 Education Week: Some Districts Charge for School Bus Rides—If They Offer Transportation at All
A small but notable share of the nation’s 13,000 public school districts charge fees for some or all of their students to ride the bus each day—if they provide transportation at all. States vary on the degree to which they require schools to offer bus service to all students who want it. They also differ widely on how much money they provide to schools to cover the growing costs of transportation.
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media mention June 21, 2024 New York Times: Democrats’ Dream of a Wealth Tax Is Alive. For Now.
For years, liberal Democrats have agitated for the United States to tax wealth, not just income, as a way to ensure that rich Americans who derive wealth from real estate, stocks, bonds and other assets were paying more in taxes. On Thursday, that dream survived a Supreme Court scare, but just barely.
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media mention June 21, 2024 Forbes: Supreme Court Refuses to Upend the Tax Code in Ruling on Unrealized Gains
The Supreme Court declined to overturn a tax policy Thursday that critics warned could have had broad implications on federal tax policy and the U.S. economy, ruling against a couple who claimed they should not have been taxed on money they invested but hadn’t made a profit on.
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media mention June 20, 2024 Pluribus News: The Volatility of Taxing the Rich
State leaders in Massachusetts and Washington are learning it’s hard to predict how much money their taxes on millionaires and billionaires will rake in.
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media mention June 18, 2024 Marketplace: Closing a $50 Billion Tax Loophole for the Wealthy
The Treasury and IRS announced a new initiative Monday to close a tax loophole for wealthy people that could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade. Plus, the evolving economics of “gayborhoods” in U.S. cities.
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media mention June 18, 2024 NPR: Kansas Lawmakers Will Consider Tax Cuts During Their Special Session
Kansas’ Republican-led Legislature is pushing for tax cuts. But critics worry about repeating the failed tax cuts from 2012 that blew holes in the state’s budgets for years.
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media mention June 14, 2024 The American Prospect: Taming the Price Beast
A February paper from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy that studied 342 profitable corporations found that these companies paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, well below the historically low statutory rate of 21 percent signed into law by the Trump administration in 2017. At the same time, we have seen record corporate profits since 2021, culminating in an all-time high in the fourth quarter of 2023. Companies seek out excess profits in increasingly harmful ways, because they get to keep more of those excess profits.
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media mention June 13, 2024 The Guardian: ‘Perilous for Democracy, Good for Profits’: Is Big Business Ready to Love Trump Again?
Chief executives of some of America’s largest companies will meet privately with Donald Trump later on Thursday, and many CEOs who were once critical of his unprecedented conduct appear increasingly open to the former president’s return to office, a Guardian analysis has found.
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media mention June 11, 2024 Yahoo Finance: 7 Places Your Taxes Will Go if Trump Wins in 2024
If you are subject to estate taxes under a second Trump term, you can expect to keep paying the historically low rate he set in motion during his first term. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, only eight of every 10,000 people who died left an estate large enough to trigger the tax as of 2019, the most recent year data are available. Most of the estate tax is paid by estates worth more than $20 million, and in recent years the majority has been paid by estates worth more than $50 million.
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media mention June 6, 2024 Capital & Main: The Return of Trickle-Down Economics
The return of trickle-down economics — the much-criticized theory that tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy eventually result in job growth and higher wages for the middle class and working class — has inspired a fierce debate in the Kansas Legislature that has gone on for months. A bill that included a flat 5.25% personal income tax, an 8% reduction from the current rate for top earners, was approved by Republicans in both chambers, though critics say it would disproportionately benefit the wealthy in the state. The top 20% of earners in Kansas — those with average annual incomes above $315,000 — would get nearly 40% of the benefits, with Koch himself receiving an estimated $485,000 in annual tax breaks under the proposal, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan research group that favors a progressive tax system. It would also cost the state almost $650 million every year once fully implemented, per ITEP.