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media mention May 24, 2018 Politico Morning Tax: Is the End Near
Along those same lines, some liberals are clearly a bit queasy about the idea of the state SALT maneuvers, given that most of the benefits flow to top earners. But… -
media mention May 24, 2018 Washington Times: Treasury Department Warns States over SALT Workarounds
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank, issued a new report Wednesday warning the Treasury not to single out the blue states, saying if they’re going… -
media mention May 16, 2018 NBC: What Trump’s disclosure of his 500 LLCs can and can’t tell us
A 2015 report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan, tax policy think tank, said Delaware’s tax code made it “a magnet for people looking to create… -
media mention May 16, 2018 San Francisco Chronicle: How Amazon and Entrepreneurs Can Pay Zero Federal Income Tax, and Do So Legally
With the recent news that Amazon paid zero federal taxes for 2017, every entrepreneur should be asking, :”How can my company pay no taxes, and legally, too?” According to the… -
media mention May 16, 2018 Bloomberg: The Kochs Helped Slash State Taxes. Now Teachers Are in the Streets
“There’s this promise,” says Meg Wiehe of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “ ‘We’re going to put more money in your pockets. We’re going to let your family decide… -
media mention May 16, 2018 USA Today: Amazon Tax over Head Tax Foreshadows Battles to Come in other Cities
In Washington state, neither state or local government are allowed to tax income. In addition, state law caps real estate tax increases to no more than 1% a year. “It’s… -
media mention May 16, 2018 CNN: North Carolina teachers want better pay and they’re marching to fight for it
Mark Jewell, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, has said the state could be spending a lot more on schools if it hadn’t shrunk revenues by lowering corporate… -
media mention May 15, 2018 Seattle Times: Coalition Abandons Initiative Requiring Legislature to ‘Balance’ Washington’s Tax Code
It’s no great secret that Washington state has a regressive tax system, meaning people with modest incomes pay a comparatively high share of it in state and local taxes. The… -
media mention May 14, 2018 Seattle Weekly: Seattle City Council Passes Reduced Head Tax
This comes on the heels of a 2015 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report that showed Washington has the most regressive tax system in the country because of its high… -
media mention May 12, 2018 News & Observer: Arizona Income Tax story
Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said the public could be more likely to support income tax hikes since federal tax debate in the… -
media mention May 12, 2018 Valdosta Daily Times: T-SPLOST: Good for our community
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the fuel tax in Georgia actually increased .3 cents on gasoline and .4 cents on diesel in 2017. The fuel tax… -
media mention May 11, 2018 Associated Press: Arizona Voters May Be Asked Whether They Want to Tax High Earners to Fund Education
Ballot initiatives to hike taxes on the rich are rare but not unheard of. A measure in Washington state in 2010 to adopt an income tax for individuals who make… -
media mention May 11, 2018 Marketplace: Tax cuts: Have they benefited Indiana’s economy?
As for the potential long-term consequences, the richest Indiana taxpayers will receive the largest average tax cuts in 2027 (with an average cut of $4,840), while taxes would go up slightly… -
media mention May 9, 2018 Working Life Podcast: A shift in the air on tax cuts?; Arizona uprising update; Inequality is worse than you think
The teachers’ uprisings around the nation have challenged the bankrupt ideology of supply-side tax cutting—and maybe marks a shift in the public’s view of taxes and public spending. Jonathan Tasini talks… -
media mention May 8, 2018 CNN: North Carolina teachers will be the next to walk out. Here’s what they want
An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy finds North Carolina would have $3.5 billion more in annual revenue if lawmakers had not changed the tax system that… -
media mention May 8, 2018 Seattle Post-Intelligencer: How Seattle’s Amazon avoids paying taxes
Amazon effectively paid no U.S. income taxes in 2017, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Meanwhile, the company reported a staggering $1.9 billion in profits in… -
media mention May 8, 2018 Bloomberg BNA: Federal Tax Law May Spur Business Relocations Among States
Such migration concerns are “overblown,” Carl Davis, research director at the liberal-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told Bloomberg Tax. “High-income earners tend to move less often than everyone… -
media mention May 8, 2018 Washington Post: Iowa Republicans pitch ‘crisis-proof’ tax cuts. Democrats see another Kansas in the making.
“The trigger is a politically expedient way for lawmakers to claim they’ve cut your taxes without having to do anything immediately to make up for the consequences of reducing revenue,” said Meg Wiehe, of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank.
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media mention May 5, 2018 Quartz: The obscure tax rule that’s stopping US states from paying teachers more
When lawmakers do gather enough votes to raise tax revenues, it is usually for “low hanging fruit” like cigarette taxes or a sales tax, said Meg Wielhe, the deputy director for… -
media mention May 4, 2018 Politico: Trump Store Collecting Online Sales Tax after Criticism
The research director of the liberal-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Carl Davis, said in a blog post Thursday that “the Trump Organization quietly updated TrumpStore.com’s sales tax information… -
media mention May 4, 2018 Business Insider: The Trump Org Just Quietly Announced It Is Collecting Sales Tax in a New State
New York’s addition to the list of states where TrumpStore.com collects sales tax, which previously included Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia, was first spotted Thursday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic… -
media mention May 4, 2018 Politico Morning Tax: Yeah, That’s a Nexus
The Trump Store has started collecting sales tax on online purchases from customers in New York, a state where it most certainly seemed to have the physical presence required for… -
media mention May 3, 2018 Politifact: Bernie Sanders Says Amazon Paid no Federal Income Tax in 2017. He’s Right
The trick for companies? They get to write off the value at which the stock was later traded, not the original price for which they sold their stock to employees.… -
media mention May 3, 2018 Washington Post: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is sending 671,000 families an election-year check
Tax experts said the only similar recent tax break that came to mind was in 2014, when New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) pushed through a more targeted, three-year… -
media mention May 1, 2018 Bloomberg BNA: Higher Gas Prices May Mean Paying States More in Taxes
As a result, a few states will see revenue gains from higher prices because their tax rates are tied to the price of fuel, rather than its volume, Carl Davis,…