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media mention May 18, 2020 Politifact:House coronavirus bill would aid immigrants, relatives cut out of previous aid package
The left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, using IRS data, estimated that this provision would benefit more than 4.3 million adults and 3.5 million children in households of ITIN… -
media mention May 18, 2020 Michigan Live:If second round of stimulus payments is approved, how much could you get?
Additionally, the bill as currently written would make those people retroactively eligible to receive the initial stimulus payment under the CARES Act. The Institute On Taxation and Economic Policy estimates… -
media mention May 15, 2020 Forbes: 4.3 Million Adults Eligible For Two $1,200 Stimulus Checks If HEROES Act Passes
The Institute On Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) estimates that over 4.3 million adults, as well as 3.5 million children, would benefit from this change in eligibility. The organization calculated… -
media mention May 15, 2020 Politico Morning Tax:STATESIDE JOCKEYING CONTINUES
One key element of the latest legislation would provide $1,200 in direct stimulus payments to individuals including those with Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, building on an initial round of payments… -
media mention May 15, 2020 Yahoo!: How the coronavirus outbreak may help keep Amazon’s federal tax bill low (again)
“I’d say their tax rate will be a lot closer to zero than to 21%,” said Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, referencing… -
media mention May 15, 2020 Madison.com: Why many rich people keep a Faustian bargain with the GOP
The Faustian bargain embraced by well-off conservatives is all about greed. Trump lied that his 2017 tax law was to help ordinary people. The top 1 percent of income earners… -
media mention May 9, 2020 Business Insider: A Tax Break Tucked in the CARES Act Will Save Some Companies Tens of Millions
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media mention May 8, 2020 Center for Public Integrity: COVID-19 Didn’t Affect This Company, But It Still Got a $893K Federal Loan
“There doesn’t appear to be any mechanism whatsoever to ensure that these loans were available only to companies that were actually affected by the coronavirus and the associated economic shutdown,”… -
media mention May 8, 2020 Quartz:Congress is facing fury over CARES Act tax breaks for the rich
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy explained in Aprilthat the new rules will allow companies to “game the system.” They can amend their past taxes, applying current losses to… -
media mention May 5, 2020 Los Angeles Times: Trump’s Payroll Tax Cut Demand Is Absurd
Specifically, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit think tank that tracks how taxes and tax breaks are distributed along the income spectrum, 65% of the… -
media mention May 4, 2020 New Yorker: How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump
On average, Trump gave households in the top one per cent a forty-eight-thousand-dollar tax cut, while those in the bottom twenty per cent received a hundred and twenty dollars, according… -
media mention May 4, 2020 Forbes: President Trump Says Next Stimulus Package Must Have Payroll Tax Cut
Who would this benefit? The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy did an analysis in mid-March that showed a complete elimination of the payroll tax would most benefit the top… -
media mention May 4, 2020 Alternet:Government leaders including Betsy DeVos push their personal agendas as economic tsunami crashes into America’s schools
“For states facing catastrophic revenue declines, asking more of taxpayers with a clear ability to pay is far preferable to cutting state budgets, which would lead to mass layoffs, steep… -
media mention May 4, 2020 Boston Globe: Why exclude some Americans from the coronavirus stimulus?
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, between 50 and 75 percent of the estimated 8 million undocumented workers in the country pay annual federal income taxes using… -
media mention May 4, 2020 Colorado Sun:Coloradans in the U.S. illegally — and their citizen families — were denied coronavirus aid. Will the state step in?
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, there are 4.35 million ITIN filers in the country, 89,500 of whom live in Colorado. Additionally, there are about 70,000 children… -
media mention May 4, 2020 LA News: California should support immigrants with expanded tax credit eligibility
According to Public Policy Institute of California, there are more than 2 million undocumented immigrants in the state, more than 6 percent of the population. Many, if not most, undocumented… -
media mention May 1, 2020 Bloomberg: Loan Forgiveness Deductions Left in Hands of Congress
The IRS could have gotten flack for allowing the deductions, tax professionals said, as the agency could be seen as effectively legislating. The agency didn’t immediately return a request for… -
media mention April 29, 2020 Arizona Republic:Undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes and get no benefits. We’re going to help
The 2016 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report stated that 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States are paying an annual estimated amount of $11.64 billion in state and local… -
media mention April 24, 2020 The Washington Post: Why Paying off Your Mortgage Early Makes Sense
The number of homeowners who benefit from the mortgage tax break plummeted following the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which nearly doubled the standard deduction, with… -
media mention April 18, 2020 The State: Not Everyone with a Social Security Number Gets a Stimulus Check
In Alejandra’s case, a U.S. citizen born in this country will be denied her stimulus check. Of course, her husband falls into the same category of roughly 4.3 million immigrants… -
media mention April 18, 2020 Zero Hedge: Wall Street & Main Street ‘Rescues’ Look Increasingly Disconnected From One Another
As Steve Wamhoff of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy points out, the changes on the use of “pass-through” losses only benefit a select group. “It has to be… -
media mention April 18, 2020 Chicago Tribune: Agencies scramble to help Lake County undocumented immigrants impacted by coronavirus crisis
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Illinois is one of six states that derive the most revenue from taxes paid by undocumented immigrants. California, Florida, New York,… -
media mention April 17, 2020 KQED: More ‘Peace of Mind’ for Undocumented Californians, Still May Not Be Enough
Unauthorized immigrants in California collectively pay about $3 billion in state and local taxes each year, according to the nonprofit Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Read more -
media mention April 16, 2020 Bloomberg Tax: Governors Ask Trump for $500 Billion in Federal Support
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, in a policy brief Wednesday, outlined some tax code reforms to help states cope with shortfalls and safeguard for the future. Among the… -
media mention April 16, 2020 Politico Morning Tax: We Are Shut Down
In any event, there’s also agreement across the political spectrum that those six states should get rid of those policies. “That would fix this particular issue and could generate revenue…