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media mention March 25, 2020 WV Metro News: How the federal financial relief package could aid West Virginia citizens and businesses
In West Virginia, the average rebate for households is $1,830, according to an analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Read more -
media mention March 25, 2020 American Prospect: Avoid Taxes, Receive Federal Bailouts
On that haul, they paid an average effective federal income tax rate of 2.3 percent. According to Matthew Gardner at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, that rate is… -
media mention March 25, 2020 Labor Notes: $1,200 per Adult, $500 per Child: Stimulus Bill Nears Passage
Below is an excerpt from an op-ed by Amy Hanauer, ITEP’s executive director, published in Labor Notes. The economic catastrophe made this middle-of-the-night package urgent. Unemployment is spiking in ways… -
media mention March 25, 2020 Investment News: Recession could hit Social Security financial outlook
Trump has proposed eliminating payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare beginning through the end of the year. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan think tank,… -
media mention March 25, 2020 Politico: Who’s Looking Ahead to Phase 4
For instance, the House bill would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit in ways Democrats have sought for awhile — like making the incentive larger for childless workers, and making… -
media mention March 19, 2020 Los Angeles Times: A Payroll Tax Cut Would Overwhelmingly Benefit the Rich
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media mention March 19, 2020 CNBC: A tale of two coronavirus relief efforts: One for the rich, one for the poor
Two financial-relief measures the Trump administration is weighing to fight the economic scourge of the coronavirus would have drastically different impacts on the rich and poor, according to a new… -
media mention March 17, 2020 Foreign Policy: Trump’s Big Turnaround: Cash Payments Instead of a Payroll Tax Cut
First, a payroll tax cut only offers benefits to those with a job, and, as the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has extensively documented, it heavily favors higher-income workers—not… -
media mention March 17, 2020 Talking Points Memo: Why The Checks-For-Everyone Idea To Ward Off A Recession Is Gaining Steam
An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that the top 20 percent of income earners would reap two-third of the benefit of a payroll tax cut,… -
media mention March 12, 2020 Bloomberg Tax: Virus Panic Prompts Trump Call for Tax Relief
A payroll tax cut, something the administration has floated, would be an ineffective stimulus measure to combat the virus’s economic fallout, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.… -
media mention March 12, 2020 New York Times: Trump’s Payroll Tax Cut Would Dwarf the 2008 Bank Bailout
The largest gains in dollar figures would go to households earning more than $123,000 a year, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington.… -
media mention March 12, 2020 Washington Examiner: In cutting payroll taxes to spur the economy, Trump would be following in Obama’s footsteps
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-of-center nonpartisan tax policy organization, found that Obama’s payroll tax cut didn’t benefit the lower and middle class very well. The study… -
media mention March 12, 2020 The Sacramento Bee: Trump has big plans for California highway repair, but no plan to pay for it
While there’s no way to know how much states increases would be curbed if federal taxes were higher, if at all, Carl Davis, research director at Washington, D.C., Institute on… -
media mention March 11, 2020 Politico: That’s a lot of tax relief
Just looking at sales and excise taxes, the eight states where recreational pot was legal in 2019 raised close to $2 billion in revenue, according to Carl Davis of the… -
media mention March 8, 2020 Washington Post: Virginia General Assembly approves higher gas tax, speed cameras and cellphone ban
Virginia joins 31 states that have raised their gas taxes or changed formulas for them in the past decade, responding to declines in revenue, according to the nonprofit Institute on… -
media mention March 4, 2020 Market Watch: This is how much American workers saved during the first year after Trump tax overhaul
Focusing on personal taxes didn’t tell the whole story, according to Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the progressive Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, or ITEP. “The… -
media mention March 3, 2020 Connecticut Mirror: After one alarming tax fairness study, CT is wary of launching a second
Gasoline distributors shift the entire cost of Connecticut’s 8.1% wholesale fuel tax onto local filling stations, which then pass it all onto motorists — who also pay a 25-cents-per-gallon retail… -
media mention February 28, 2020 MSNBC: Team Trump wants even more corporate tax breaks in a second term
For another, corporations clearly don’t need a lower rate since so many of them aren’t even paying taxes at the current rate. Late last year, the Institute on Taxation and… -
media mention February 25, 2020 The Chicago Tribune: Recreational marijuana sales in Illinois generated more than $10 million in tax revenue in January
Many dispensaries continue to sell recreational marijuana only on certain days of the week or for restricted hours. Though greater volumes of product continue to filter into the market from… -
media mention February 25, 2020 The Hill: Financial trade tax gains traction with 2020 Democrats
Democratic presidential candidates across the ideological spectrum are calling for taxes on financial trades, breathing new life into an idea that for many years was promoted primarily in progressive circles.… -
media mention February 24, 2020 Anchorage Press: The Pocketbook Reasons Most Alaskans Should Prefer an Income Tax to a Statewide Sales Tax
An analysis in 2017 by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) produced similar results. All people in households who make less than $73,000 per year—and some in higher-earning… -
media mention February 20, 2020 MarketWatch: Jeff Bezos spent more on this house in Beverly Hills than Amazon has paid so far in federal corporate income tax for 2019
Amazon listed a “summary” of its 2019 U.S. taxes as including $2.4 billion in other federal taxes, including payroll taxes and customs duties, and more than $1.6 billion in state… -
media mention February 20, 2020 Washington Post: White House advisers privately float minimum tax on corporations amid blowback over 2017 GOP law
Opponents of the tax law such as presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have assailed the GOP and multibillion-dollar corporations for allegedly paying $0 in federal taxes under the new… -
media mention February 20, 2020 Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Tax reform may be more lucrative than advertised for corporations
Many of Minnesota’s major corporations paid lower tax rates in 2018 than new, dramatically lower corporate tax rates. That was among the findings in an analysis of government filings by… -
media mention February 20, 2020 Factcheck.org: FactChecking the Las Vegas Democratic Debate
There were indeed reports last year, prompted by the findings of the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, indicating that the two companies and others paid no federal income taxes in 2018. The…