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media mention November 5, 2017 Salon: The Election Is All About Casting Aside Trumpism
In New Jersey, undocumented immigrants paid close to $600 million in state and local taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. In 2013, analysts at the Social… -
media mention November 4, 2017 Huffington Post: Trump’s Exit From Anti-Corruption Pact Helps Big Oil Hide How Much It Pays In US Taxes
The secrecy underscores the generous subsidies and tax credits afforded to the oil and gas industry. Nearly half of all untapped oil reserves in the U.S. would be unprofitable without… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Roll Call: Tax ID Used by Immigrants Targeted in GOP Tax Bill
Meg Wiehe, deputy director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said the provision would harm more than 5.1 million children — the majority of whom are U.S. citizens… -
media mention November 3, 2017 CNNMoney: Broadcom Moving Legal Headquarters Back to U.S.
Matthew Gardner, a fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, pointed to several additional reasons Broadcom might want change its address. Broadcom is in the middle of a… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Marketplace: Key Question on The GOP Tax Plan: What’s Your ZIP code?
ITEP Research Director Carl Davis talks to Marketplace about the state and local tax deduction. Read more or listen -
media mention November 3, 2017 Fortune: Did You Catch the Huge Loophole in the GOP Tax Plan? The Rich Sure Did.
Following in an excerpt from an op-ed by Alan Essig published in Fortune. In September, shortly after the GOP released the initial framework for its so-called middle-class tax plan, multiple… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Mother Jones: Republicans Unveil Huge Corporate Tax Cuts Paid For by Deficit-Spending
Completely repealing the state and local deduction would lead to taxes going up for 1 in six Americans, according to the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. In a high-tax state… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Las Vegas Review Journal: GOP Unveils Tax-Reform Bill That Faces Political Hurdles
Alan Essig, executive director of the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, rejected GOP claims that the bill would help the middle class. “The starting point for tax reform… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Newsweek: Tax Reform Plan Is More Radical Than You Think
Critics note that there are plenty of other ways wealthier earners would do well. “Keeping the top tax rate at 39.6 percent for millionaires is a cosmetic change meant to… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Associated Press: Why Tax Plan Might Not Put US Firms’ Overseas Cash to Work
Apple has more than $230 billion overseas, Microsoft $124 billion, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Returning those overseas profits to America, the Republicans say, would give… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Vox: 2 Winners and 3 Losers from the Republican Tax Bill
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, pulling together assessments from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Tax Policy Center, the Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis,… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Washington Post: Answers to Major Questions about the Republican Tax Plan
Boosting corporate income tax rates and squeezing loopholes would hurt other companies, such as capital intensive industries. Oil and gas companies, for example, take advantage of special depreciation rates, two… -
media mention November 3, 2017 Dallas Morning News: Was Exxon Mobil’s Tax Rate Last Year Really -5.1%?
So, who’s right? “They are both correct,” said Matt Gardner, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “They’re just measuring different things.” Tax breaks, financial reporting rules… -
media mention November 1, 2017 Between the Lines: Trickle Down Hoax Central to GOP Tax Reform Plan
Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Matthew Gardner, senior fellow with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, who assesses the winners and losers in the Republican tax reform… -
media mention October 30, 2017 NPR’s On Point: Who Benefits from GOP Tax Plan
We go to the biggest legislative push yet by the president and Republican Congress: to overhaul American taxes. Details slated to be released this week, with a lightning-fast push through… -
media mention October 27, 2017 Fortune: You’re Better off in a State with High Income Tax
Following is an excerpt written by Carl Davis, ITEP’s research director, and published in Fortune. Many lawmakers in Congress and in statehouses around the country peddle the same supply-side theory… -
media mention October 27, 2017 MarketWatch: Trump-Ryan Tax Plan Will Encourage More Corporate Offshore Tax Avoidance
The figures are staggering. At least 366 of the Fortune 500 companies have established subsidiaries in tax-haven countries. The companies pay an average tax rate of 6.1% on their “foreign”… -
media mention October 27, 2017 The Week: The GOP’s Head Fake on Taxes
But this little adjustment would barely shift the overall effects of the tax plan at all. “Taxpayers with total income exceeding $1 million would receive an average tax cut of… -
media mention October 27, 2017 Mother Jones: Republicans Fast Track Tax Cut for the Wealthy
Most of the Republican opposition came from the GOP’s plan to eliminate deductions for state and local taxes, with 11 Republicans from New York and New Jersey voting against the… -
media mention October 27, 2017 Fusion: Income Tax Is Great
A report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy examines the results of a natural experiment on taxation that has emerged within our country: The economic performance of the… -
media mention October 27, 2017 The Street: Proposed Gas Tax Increase Could Harm Consumers
Since 2013, 26 states have raised their gas taxes with eight alone in 2017, according to a report conducted by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-profit and… -
media mention October 27, 2017 Washington Post: Happy Hour Roundup
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy releases a report showing that states with higher personal income taxes have higher economic growth, higher wage growth, and lower unemployment than states… -
media mention October 27, 2017 NY Daily News: D.C.’s Budget Takes Dead Aim at NYC
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy finds that 84% of the tax cuts received by New York State residents would go to the richest 1% of households here —… -
media mention October 27, 2017 City Pages: Emmer, Paulsen, and Lewis Decide the Deficit Isn’t So Important After All
The 1 percent gets served first, of course. The wealthiest Minnesotans will receive 62 percent of the state’s tax cuts next year for an average of $66,000, according to the… -
media mention October 26, 2017 American Prospect: Republicans Want to Make Corporate Tax Avoidance Easier
According to a recent report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, 73 percent of Fortune 500 companies have subsidiaries in a low-tax…