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media mention December 31, 2018 Washington Times: Trump Tax Cut Foiled by State’s Itemized Deduction Rule
Last year, many states opened their legislative sessions at the beginning of January, just after the federal tax law passed in December 2017, leaving them little time to figure out… -
media mention December 22, 2018 Mother Jones: It’s Been a Year Since Trump Enacted Sweeping Tax Cuts. The Rich Won
The surge in buybacks comes with an “opportunity cost,” says Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “You can’t spend money on things like… -
media mention December 22, 2018 NBC News: How Much Does Illegal Immigration Cost America? Not As Much As Trump Claims
“It sounds extraordinarily high to me,” said Meg Wiehe, deputy director at the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). Read more -
media mention December 21, 2018 The American Prospect: The 2018 Economy in 12 Graphs
Thanks to some bold number crunching by the nerds at the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, the figure compares a regressive, supply-side tax cut, like the one we got… -
media mention December 18, 2018 CNBC: Democrats Are Going to Attack the GOP Tax Law from Several Angles, Including SALT Caps and Breaks for Corporations
Many of the changes that Democrats are seeking have little chance of enactment amid divided government in Washington. But Alan Essig, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic… -
media mention December 11, 2018 Washington Post: In Early Win for Party’s Left, House Democrats Back off Tax Rule
Henry Connelly, a spokesman for Pelosi, said the rule was unnecessary to prevent Democrats from hiking taxes on the middle class. He also noted that House Republicans waived their rule… -
media mention December 6, 2018 Washington Post: Does the Republican Tax Law Encourage Outsourcing?
“These multinational firms are going to want to stay below the 10 percent threshold, because that means the U.S. tax system won’t touch their foreign earnings,” said Matt Gardner, a… -
media mention December 6, 2018 Arkansas Times: Race, History and Taxes
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the poorest 20 percent of Arkansas taxpayers, those making less than $18,600, pay 11.3 cents in state and local taxes on… -
media mention November 30, 2018 Think Progress: Trump Didn’t Know GOP Tax Bill Incentivizes Businesses to Offshore Jobs
Those findings echoed previous analysis from non-partisan agencies like like the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which found the Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would make offshore tax… -
media mention November 26, 2018 Fortune: It’s Too Easy for the Ultra-Rich to Pass Down Wealth. Here’s How to Fix That
The first is to tax extreme wealth directly—specifically, with a 1% tax on the assets of the wealthiest 0.1% of households, those with assets greater than $20 million. Such a… -
media mention November 26, 2018 New York Daily News: Cyber Monday Shopping Deals Blunting by Supreme Court Ruling
“This is about improved enforcement of a tax that’s already on the books,” echoed Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, to CNBC. “For years,… -
media mention November 24, 2018 NorthJersey.com: Democrats Taking Another Run at SALT Restoration
While it remains to be seen whether bipartisan support for a full or partial SALT restoration is feasible or even affordable in the new Congress, the fight – or at… -
media mention November 20, 2018 Newark Star-Ledger: Your Property Tax Break Might Come Back if These Newly Elected Democrats Have Their Way
Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said he would introduce legislation in the new Congress to raise the $88 billion in revenue that… -
media mention November 19, 2018 New York Times: Did a Tax Increase Tucked Into Trump’s Tax Cut Come Back to Bite Republicans?
Simply reinstating the unlimited cap, without also reversing the changes to the alternative minimum tax, would deliver no benefit to low-income and middle-class Americans, according to a new analysis by… -
media mention November 19, 2018 Daily Beast: Dear Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats: Why Are You Embracing Trickle-Down Economics?
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has found that from 2000 to 2018, the richest 20 percent of Americans have enjoyed 65 percent of all the tax cuts, with… -
media mention November 17, 2018 Splinter: House Democrats Balk at Prospect of Being Good
That is a disastrous idea. Alan Essig, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, noted the rule “could make it difficult, as a practical matter, to raise… -
media mention November 16, 2018 Lexington Herald Leader: Kentucky’s New Tax Favors for the Wealthy Won’t Spur the Economy. They Will Worsen Inequality.
Income inequality is soaring in an economy where the winners increasingly take all. The wealthiest one percent of Kentuckians make 94 times more a year on average than the bottom… -
media mention November 16, 2018 Slate: House Democrats Are Already Pursuing a Dumb Tax Stunt, and the Left Is Very Annoyed
But then, tucked at the bottom of page five, there’s an item that’s already setting off alarm bells across the left. The rule—endorsed by Pelosi and Richard Neal, the top… -
media mention November 16, 2018 Washington Post: Democrats Face Early Division in Rules over Taxes
The richest fifth of taxpayers are those who make more than $108,000 annually, said Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Some… -
media mention November 16, 2018 Wyo File: Why Are We Footing the Bill for Billionaires?
he question, then, will be: Who pays? That question — “Who pays?” — is also at the center of a report released last month by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on… -
media mention November 16, 2018 Bloomberg: U.S. Companies Flee No-Tax Caribbean Havens after EU Crackdown
Facebook Inc. has said it plans to almost triple its workforce in Singapore. The social media giant only reports Irish and Singapore subsidiaries, according to a 2017 study by the… -
media mention November 14, 2018 CBS News: Can New York Make Back Its Amazon Investment
Opponents of corporate subsidies said Amazon’s choices prove taxpayer incentives matter much less than advertised. “[A]ccess to an educated workforce and high-quality public amenities are what drive business location decisions… -
media mention November 14, 2018 Real News Network: Even for Local Taxes, the Rich Pay Far Less Than the Poor
Dylan Grundman, an ITEP senior policy analyst, discusses Who Pays. -
media mention November 12, 2018 Yahoo! Finance: How Trump’s Tax Cuts Hurt the GOP in America’s Wealthy Suburbs
Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told Yahoo Finance that the same story has been playing out across the country. “I think Californians and… -
media mention November 7, 2018 Washington Post: In blow to liberal efforts, voters across the country reject tax increases. (California is the exception.)
North Carolina voters, for instance, approved a change to their state constitution bringing down the maximum allowable tax rate from 10 percent to 7 percent. That will effectively only spare…