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media mention July 2, 2018 USA Today: Gas Taxes Rise Sunday in Seven States as AAA Projects Record Travel for July 4th
Massive teacher protests this spring in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Kentucky and other states prompted the Oklahoma Legislature to raise taxes on cigarettes, fuel and oil and gas production to pay for… -
media mention July 2, 2018 Augusta Free Press: Rising Gas Prices, Health Costs Mitigate Impact of Tax Cuts
Meanwhile, six months after passage of the tax cut law, Virginia’s wealthiest one percent will be watching fireworks at the country club in great comfort knowing that their tax cuts… -
media mention July 2, 2018 Seattle Times: Fight Heats up over Washington State Carbon ‘Fee’ Likely to Make Fall Ballot
Opponents criticize the measure as a regressive tax on Washingtonians. They note that the state — with a sales tax but no income tax — already is considered to have… -
media mention June 29, 2018 American Prospect: The Two Biggest Lies in Donald Trump’s Tax Plan
Following is an excerpt from an essay in the American Prospect by ITEP Senior Fellow Matt Gardner: Despite a full-court charm offensive by the White House, its media surrogates, and… -
media mention June 29, 2018 San Antonio Express News: Why Immigrants Come
What’s needed is a change of policy and a change of focus. The objective should not be to decrease the supply of labor needed in the farm fields and hospitality… -
media mention June 28, 2018 Fast Company: AT&T’s Long Partnership with NSA Is Just Another Swamp Romance
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy said AT&T enjoyed an effective tax rate of just 8 percent between 2008 and 2015, despite the fact that the company enjoyed record… -
media mention June 28, 2018 American Prospect: Massive Spending Cuts, the Tax Act’s Hidden Costs
According to an analysis released last year by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, those in the bottom fifth of the income distribution paid just under 7 percent of… -
media mention June 27, 2018 Bloomberg BNA: Fix’ for Federal Cap on State Tax Deduction? K-12 Tax Credits
But the very same charge can be made against the tax credit programs for private K-12 schools, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy said in its report. These programs… -
media mention June 27, 2018 Wall Street Journal: As Treasury Targets Workarounds to Tax Law, Impact May Extend Beyond High-Tax States
Tax experts say the federal government will find it difficult if not impossible to write rules to stop the workarounds in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut without also limiting… -
media mention June 27, 2018 Consumer Reports: Sales Tax Ruling May Have Limited Impact
Most states currently have some kind of sales tax, though the amount—and what items or services are taxed—varies widely from state to state. Some experts think states will need to… -
media mention June 27, 2018 The American Prospect: Raises and Bonuses, The PR Fraud
It’s hard to imagine a greater encouragement for companies to shift as much profit overseas as possible, mostly to low- or no-tax havens. By the time the tax debate began,… -
media mention June 26, 2018 Governing: Why New Jersey Is Headed for Another Shutdown
But Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, notes that the federal corporate income tax cut also has an effect on high-income earners. Historically,… -
media mention June 22, 2018 NPR: Supreme Court Ruling Means Some Online Purchases Will Cost More
While the court made clear that the states do not have unlimited power to require sales tax collection, “The court blessed South Dakota’s law,” said Carl Davis, research director for… -
media mention June 22, 2018 New York Times: Supreme Court Widens Reach of Sales Tax for Online Retailers
The decision, in South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., was a victory for brick-and-mortar businesses that have long complained they are put at a disadvantage by having to charge sales taxes… -
media mention June 22, 2018 CNBC: Here’s What That Supreme Court Sales Tax Decision Means for You
If you haven’t been doing this, you might get a nasty surprise at checkout if your state successfully pushes online merchants to collect those taxes. “This is about improved enforcement… -
media mention June 22, 2018 CNBC: Trump Celebrates Supreme Court Decision that Could Force His Online Store to Collect More Taxes
The store, which brands itself as “the official retail website of The Trump Organization,” currently names just four states in which it collects sales taxes. Before April, only two were… -
media mention June 22, 2018 Buffalo News: Sales Tax Ruling Will Help Stores Compete Against Online Retailers
Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington think tank, was quoted in The New York Times saying, “State and local governments have really… -
media mention June 22, 2018 Market Insider: Trump Praises Supreme Court Decision on Sales Tax
A Trump Organization representative did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider on how the Supreme Court decision could affect TrumpStore.com. When New York was added to… -
media mention June 20, 2018 Reuters: How U.S. Tax Reform Rewards Companies that Shift Profit to Tax Havens
“If the guardrails in the new territorial system were meant to prevent companies from avoiding all taxes, AbbVie’s (tax rate) is a pretty clear signal that these guardrails may not… -
media mention June 20, 2018 USA Today: After Losing Fight to Levy ‘Amazon tax,’ Seattle Is Back to Square One on Helping Homeless
The construction pause “was a concrete action as opposed to just a threat,” said Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit in Washington,… -
media mention June 20, 2018 Cleveland Plain Dealer: Our Immigrant Neighbors Are Not Violent Criminals to Be Uprooted and Separated from Their Children
According to a 2017 study carried out for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C. research organization, undocumented immigrants collectively pay almost $12 billion a year in state… -
media mention June 15, 2018 NorthJersey.com: NJ Lottery Operator Northstar Wants $97 Million Raise and Less Money for New Jersey
In neighboring Pennsylvania, the Legislature in 2014 approved decreasing the minimum profit margin from 27 percent to 25 percent and projected net revenue would increase by $40 million over the… -
media mention June 12, 2018 Washington Post: Seattle Council Votes to Repeal Tax to Help Homeless Amid Opposition from Amazon, other Businesses
“There’s a bargaining power problem here, and cities are on the wrong side of it,” said Matthew Gardner, a tax policy analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy,… -
media mention June 9, 2018 Springfield (Mass) Republican: Tax Breaks That Help Students Attend Private School Could Be Repealed
“This is a brand new tax break that was created automatically by an obscure linkage to federal law, and whether lawmakers want to offer it or not is worth discussing,”… -
media mention June 8, 2018 Politico Morning Tax: More on the Way Out
GUILTY OF WANTING TO CHANGE GILTI: House Democrats, led by Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon, have rolled out a bill that would revamp the international system Republicans crafted in the…