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media mention August 9, 2019 Akron Beacon-Journal: Make the State Earned Income Tax Credit refundable
The analysis, conducted by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, found a familiar outcome. The changes favor wealthier households, those at the top 5 percent of household incomes enjoying… -
media mention August 8, 2019 Associated Press: Oil Unease: Alaska Faces Tough Budget Decisions
Carl Davis, research director with the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said cutting the dividend is regressive, hitting lower-income families particularly hard. He sees no conflict between… -
media mention August 1, 2019 CNN: Fact Check Democratic debate, night 2
Bennet: “Since 2001, we have cut $5 trillion worth of taxes. Almost all of it has gone to the wealthiest people in America.” THE FACTS: This is exaggerated. Bennet’s claim… -
media mention August 1, 2019 New York Times: Debate Fact Check: What Were They Talking About, and What Was True?
What Mr. Bennet said: “Since 2001, we have cut $5 trillion worth of taxes. Almost all of it has gone to the wealthiest people in America.” This is exaggerated. Mr.… -
media mention August 1, 2019 Wall Street Journal: Going Out of Style: Tax-Driven Deals to Move Corporate HQs Outside U.S.
Through mergers, companies such as Allergan, Mylan, Medtronic and Johnson Controls PLC moved tax addresses abroad. The companies were often managed from the U.S. “It was always a fiction that they… -
media mention August 1, 2019 NBC News: Fact-check: The July Democratic debate 2019, Night 2
Did ‘almost all’ of the tax cuts since 2001 go to the wealthiest Americans? “Since 2001, we have cut $5 trillion worth of taxes. Almost all of it has gone… -
media mention August 1, 2019 Time: Democrats Made Lots of Claims During the Second Debates. Here Are the Facts
Amazon paid $0 in federal income tax in the U.S. in 2018 after making over $11 billion in profits, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic… -
media mention July 31, 2019 CNN: Democratic Debate Night 1
According to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy for the second year running, Amazon made a profit of more than $11 billion in 2018, but reported a $129 million tax… -
media mention July 31, 2019 New York Times: Trump Administration Is Divided Over Tax Cut for Investors
But critics argue that the administration could open the door to a variety of unintended consequences, including allowing investors to exploit the change. Steve Wamhoff, the director of federal tax… -
media mention July 31, 2019 Newsweek: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reminds America Undocumented Immigrants Pay Taxes: ‘They Pay Your Kids’ Schooling’
While it is difficult to say exactly how much undocumented immigrants contribute in taxes today, a 2013 report from the Institute On Taxation and Economic Policy highlighted how “the 11.2… -
media mention July 31, 2019 Time: Democrats Made Lots of Claims During the Second Debate. Here Are the Facts
Amazon paid $0 in federal income tax in the U.S. in 2018 after making over $11 billion in profits, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic… -
media mention July 31, 2019 Washington Times: 2020 Democratic Candidates Put Trump’s Corporate Tax Rate Cut in Crosshairs
Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, agreed that the rate alone isn’t enough. “If we raise the corporate income tax rate… -
media mention July 31, 2019 Orlando Sentinel: Florida’s Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday – a Costly Gimmick
And an analyst with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy said one of the alleged benefits — that the tax holidays stimulate spending — is bogus. Why? Because if… -
media mention July 31, 2019 WPEC: Retailers Ready for Back-to-School Tax ‘Holiday’
But not everyone is sold on the value of sales-tax holidays. The Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-profit liberal think tank, calls such holidays an “outdated… -
media mention July 30, 2019 The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Sales Tax Holiday, Here’s What You Need To Know
The Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-profit liberal think tank, calls such holidays an “outdated gimmick.” Dylan Grundman, a senior policy analyst for the institute, argued… -
media mention July 28, 2019 Salt Lake Tribune: Treatment of Immigrants Is a Dark Stain on America
Immigrants contribute more in tax revenues than they receive in government benefits. Per the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, undocumented immigrants pay an estimated $11.6 billion annually in taxes,… -
media mention July 27, 2019 Chattanooga Times Free-Press: Yet Again, Tennessee Combined State, Local Sales Tax Rates Nation’s Highest
While the sales tax is the workhorse of Tennessee’s budget, it’s also seen by critics as a “regressive tax” in that it takes a larger percentage of income from the… -
media mention July 25, 2019 Filter: Kamala Harris Cannabis Legalization Bill Is Also About Immigrant Justice
While some critics, like Carl Davis, the research director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, argue that Harris’s bill would just be a tax-cut for Big Marijuana, the… -
media mention July 25, 2019 Reno News Review: Another Portrait of Ripped-off Nevadans
But wait, there’s more bad news for Nevada. The New York Times editorialized last Sunday on the growing trend toward inequality caused by how state and local taxes are assessed.… -
media mention July 24, 2019 Politico: Taxing the Pot
So how might this actually be a tax cut? By removing marijuana from the controlled substance list, Harris and Nadler would also make legitimate businesses eligible to deduct routine business… -
media mention July 24, 2019 Anchorage Daily News: As Alaska’s Budget Uproar Rolls on, a Top Dunleavy Adviser Has Seen It Before
Arduin, Laffer & Moore has been criticized by economists for what some see as less than rigorous methods. One Oklahoma study on eliminating the state’s personal income tax produced by… -
media mention July 23, 2019 KCBS: Kamala Harris’ Pot Proposal Would Reduce Tax Revenue, Expert Predicts
Harris’ proposal would impose a 5% federal tax on pot to pay for new social justice program. Her legislation would also extend significant income tax deductions that have been unavailable to… -
media mention July 21, 2019 New York Times: State and Local Taxes Are Worsening Inequality
Low-income households in Illinois pay about 14 cents in state and local taxes from every dollar of income, while the state’s most affluent households pay about 7 cents per dollar.… -
media mention July 20, 2019 Washington Post: Trump Aides to Look for Big Spending Cuts in Second Term
… with 2018, with 60 Fortune 500 companies paying no federal taxes at all, according to a 2018 study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Read more -
media mention July 19, 2019 New York Times: Back-to-School Sales Tax ‘Holidays’ Lure Shoppers Despite Slim Savings
But the tax holidays put a damper on state revenue and don’t necessarily deliver the business results they promise, said Dylan Grundman, a senior policy analyst at the Institute on…