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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… -
media mention June 7, 2018 The (Maine) Free Press: Where the Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates Should Stand on the Issues
In the past several years, the LePage administration and now the Trump administration have been very kind to higher-income earners. In 2011, the governor signed a $400 million tax cut,… -
media mention June 4, 2018 CNBC: Donate to charitable funds and nab a tax break in these states — for now
How the IRS will ultimately proceed remains to be seen, but experts agree that the agency may take a closer look at programs with generous tax credits. “It’s when you… -
media mention May 31, 2018 Reno News and Review: Tax Hike?
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the poorest 20 percent of Nevada families pay 6.1 percent of their income in sales tax. The wealthiest one percent of… -
media mention May 30, 2018 Urban Milwaukee: What’s Wrong with Illinois?
Although Illinois is widely viewed as a blue state because of its recent record of supporting Democratic presidential candidates, from a “who pays” angle it looks much more like a… -
media mention May 25, 2018 Politifact: Scott Dawson distorts Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s Grant Funding
But Matt Gardner, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said there is a distinction between tax dollars and taxpayer dollars. “User fees are, technically, not ‘tax… -
media mention May 24, 2018 Reuters: U.S. Treasury Readies Crackdown on SALT Workarounds
But the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, or ITEP, warned that narrow action could have unintended consequences for federal charitable donations if the government imposes arbitrary distinctions between… -
media mention May 24, 2018 New York Times: I.R.S. Warns States Not to Circumvent State and Local Tax Cap
Carl Davis, the research director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington, said that Alabama provides a 100 percent state tax credit for taxpayers who donate money… -
media mention May 24, 2018 Washington Post: NJ Democrats Loved the Idea of Taxing the Rich Until They Could Actually Do It
A spokesman for Sweeney, the state Senate president, said families earning over $1.1 million in New Jersey already face an average $738 tax hike under the GOP law, citing data…