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media mention May 13, 2017 National Law Review: Beneficiaries of $14.4 Billion Over Last Decade, Tax Lobbyists Ready for Trump Bonanza
About 4,000 registered lobbyists work on tax issues in the nation’s capital, but spending is highly concentrated among large multinational conglomerates and trade organizations. Fifteen companies and organizations, ranging from… -
media mention May 11, 2017 The American Prospect: Trickle Downer of the Week
Meanwhile, the Trump administration works tirelessly to ease tax rates for millionaires, billionaires, and corporations while ripping away affordable health care for everyone else. The president wants to dramatically reduce… -
media mention May 11, 2017 Education Week: Federal Tax Credits Poised to Make a Big Education Impact
Given DeVos’ repeated states-rights pronouncements, it also seems likely that individual states will have substantial ability to shape how tax credits scholarships are distributed in their jurisdictions to support their… -
media mention May 11, 2017 Fast Company: Drain the Swamp? Tax Lobbyists Are Ready for Trump Bonanza
The lobbying activity has coincided with a continuing slide in the percentage of federal revenues collected from corporate income taxes. During the 1950s, corporate taxes made up 28% of federal revenue.… -
media mention May 10, 2017 Bloomberg BNA: Q and A with ITEP’s Meg Wiehe
Bloomberg BNA: Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP)? Wiehe: I am ITEP Deputy Director, my primary responsibility… -
media mention May 7, 2017 Governing: Raising the Gas Tax Is No Longer Taboo in Many States
Already this year, governors in California, Indiana and Tennessee signed laws to raise fuel taxes, meaning a total of 22 states have passed laws imposing higher gas taxes in the… -
media mention May 4, 2017 International Business Times: Who Ends Up Paying for the Gig Economy?
As the gig economy has grown, the tax gap has widened. Because of inconsistencies in sales tax policies, state and local governments across the U.S. may be missing out on… -
media mention May 4, 2017 San Diego Union Tribune: Report Tallies Taxes from Unauthorized Immigrants
Unauthorized immigrants in San Diego County pay an estimated $218.5 million in state and local taxes annually, according to a report from the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.… -
media mention May 3, 2017 Charleston Gazette Mail: Beware a Compromise That Takes from the Poor and Gives to the Rich
An assessment by Mark Muchow, deputy secretary of the Department of Revenue, estimates that by 2020, this will cause a revenue decline of $220 million due to income tax cuts.… -
media mention May 3, 2017 Between the Lines: Trump Tax Plan Revives Economic Voodoo
On April 26, just a few days short of President Trump’s 100th day in office, a so-called “tax reform” plan was released by the White House that consisted of bullet… -
media mention May 2, 2017 NBC News: Even Families Making $100K Won’t Be Better Off Under New Tax Plan
This might not help taxpayers who live in states with high state and local taxes. Currently, taxpayers in the bottom half of the top income quintile — that is, those… -
media mention May 2, 2017 CNBC: Trump’s Tax Holiday Could Be a Windfall for These Stocks
On a per-share basis, the company’s foreign earnings left overseas come to more than $40 a share, according to CNBC calculations using figures from a recent report by the Institute… -
media mention May 2, 2017 Associated Press: Tax Package Backed by Nebraska Gov. Ricketts Stalls
The bill would have given a larger benefit to wealthy residents who pay a larger share of their income at the top tax rate. Supporters said the income tax portion… -
media mention May 1, 2017 The Boston Globe: Seven Large Massachusetts Companies Cited as Paying No or Little State Tax
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media mention May 1, 2017 Bloomberg: Trump Study of Gas Tax Could Run Afoul of GOP, Rural Voters
Voters in rural areas overwhelmingly chose Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and a higher gas tax also may indeed affect those areas disproportionately, said Carl… -
media mention April 29, 2017 The Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Tax the Rich? Done. Tax Fairness, Well …
A broader comparison of all state and local taxes comes from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a progressive Washington research group. It, too, ranks Minnesota’s tax system today… -
media mention April 29, 2017 The Hill: Making Wall Street Loopholes Great Again
The choice of Cohn and Mnuchin as the faces of Trump’s tax plan really says it all. Their former employer, Goldman Sachs, is already a champion tax dodger. When Cohn… -
media mention April 29, 2017 PBS News Hour: Corporations Go Overseas to Avoid U.S. Taxes
PATRICIA SABGA: From the White House to Capitol Hill, Republicans are determined to lower the 35 percent corporate tax rate — the highest of any developed economy. Matt Gardner is… -
media mention April 28, 2017 Roll Call: As GOP Tax Overhaul Shapes Up, Democrats Push to End the Tax Return
Groups like Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, which advocates a flat tax, have also opposed return-free filing, saying it would allow the IRS to “intimidate” taxpayers into paying whatever is on… -
media mention April 28, 2017 Crain’s Chicago Business: How Much Do Illinois Companies Pay in Taxes?
Illinois’ Fortune 500 companies are paying less and less in state corporate taxes—and sometimes, almost nothing at all. A new report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found… -
media mention April 28, 2017 CBS News: Trump’s Tax Cut Promise to Pay for Themselves. So Will They?
The most durable effect of the 1981 cuts was to lay the groundwork for a tax reform in 1986, which was intended not to raise revenue but to clean up… -
media mention April 28, 2017 CNBC: Companies Holding $2.6 Trillion Pile of Cash Offshore
The top companies in terms of overseas holdings are Apple, Pfizer and Microsoft, according to a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. General Electric and IBM round… -
media mention April 27, 2017 Fast Company: At Last, Silicon Valley May Have Found a Trump Proposal to Like–Hist Tax Plan
Apple, for one, would likely be happy about a one-time repatriation of earnings, depending on the details of the plan. In 2016, the European Union, after a lengthy investigation, ruled… -
media mention April 27, 2017 International Business Times: Winners and Losers in Trump Tax Plan
On the state level, 240 Fortune 500 firms avoided paying $126 billion in income taxes between 2008 and 2015, a study released Thursday by the non-profit Institute on Taxation and Economic… -
media mention April 27, 2017 Governing: This Week in Public Finance
She’s right that sales tax exemptions are political. But to be fair, which exemptions aren’t? Moreoever, taxes themselves are unavoidably political. They speak to the policies and values held by…