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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… -
media mention October 26, 2017 Star-Ledger: You’re Now More at Risk of Losing Your Property Tax Break
The loss of the state and local tax deduction would mean higher taxes for 26.4 percent of New Jersey taxpayers, according to a study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic… -
media mention October 26, 2017 International Business Times: Do Lower Taxes Spur Economic Growth? What Happened In No-Tax States
Researchers at the non-partisan and non-profit Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy compared the nine states without personal income taxes, which include Florida, Texas and Washington, to the nine states… -
media mention October 25, 2017 CNN: How Trump’s Policies Could Hurt the Rust Belt
Rust Belt states Ohio, Michigan and Indiana are not home to large populations of $1 million household income earners. Rather, they’re in the middle or bottom of the pack, according… -
media mention October 24, 2017 Forbes: Which U.S. Companies Have the Most Tax Havens
Every year, U.S.-based multinational corporations use tax havens to avoid paying an estimated $100 billion in federal income tax. According to a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy,… -
media mention October 23, 2017 Wall Street Cheat Sheet: 15 People Who Will Cash in Big from the Trump Plan
According to the the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, it would be a tale of two classes. The top 1% (those earning over $600,000) would see an average tax cut… -
media mention October 19, 2017 Think Progress: Trump’s Tax Bill Is a Swamp Monster
Piper was among several Fierce lobbyists working for Apple on the bill in the Senate, House, and the Executive Office of the President. Apple — the company that had over $230… -
media mention October 19, 2017 CNN: America Needs Higher Wages, Not Lower Taxes
There’s no argument over who benefits from the current Republican proposal to cut taxes, if you put aside ideology and honestly look at the numbers. According to analyses from the… -
media mention October 18, 2017 NPR’s Marketplace: Can You Convince Americans to Support Lower Corporate Taxes by Promising Them a Pay Raise?
Another reason Trump’s message may not land? Many economists don’t think that corporate tax cuts will lead to higher wages. “It’s a pretty far-fetched claim,” said Matthew Gardner of the… -
media mention October 17, 2017 Reveal: The Fight for Public Education
In this radio interview, ITEP research director Carl Davis discusses the downfalls of using tax credits for private education. Carl is featured around the 8:40 mark. Read more -
media mention October 17, 2017 Washington Examiner: Indiana’s Tax Cuts Haven’t Led to Higher Paychecks
Carl Davis for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: In announcing a tax cut framework in Indianapolis that was negotiated with House and Senate leaders, President Trump said, “Indiana… -
media mention October 17, 2017 Wisconsin Public Radio: Paul Ryan Defends Tax Proposal Health Insurance Subsidy Cut
A study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington DC found about 60 percent of the proposed tax cuts would benefit the top 1 percent of income earners in Wisconsin.… -
media mention October 17, 2017 International Business Times: Three quarters of Fortune 500 companies used offshore tax havens in 2016
New research has revealed that 73% or 366 companies on the Fortune 500 list, including brands as big as Nike, Apple and Citigroup, used tax havens to avoid US taxes… -
media mention October 17, 2017 The Nation: How the Swindlers of Silicon Valley Avoid Paying Taxes
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a nonpartisan organization, has warned, “Corporations would have even greater incentives to engage in accounting gimmicks to make their U.S. profits appear… -
media mention October 17, 2017 Fiscal Times: 4 Corporate Giants Benefiting from Offshore Tax Havens
A new report by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy finds that nearly three-quarters of Fortune 500 companies used offshore… -
media mention October 17, 2017 Bloomberg BNA: Taxes Lost to Offshore Profits Rise to $752B in 2016
The report, released Oct. 17 by the left-leaning U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, “undermines the case for any tax proposal… -
media mention October 13, 2017 New York Times: U.S. and Europe May Collide on Taxing Apple and Amazon
The rulings on Amazon and Apple — which those companies are disputing — are byproducts of a race among governments to lure corporate giants to their shores in the hunt… -
media mention October 11, 2017 FiveThirtyEight: The GOP Had One Big Divide On Health Care. It Has Three On Taxes.
Here’s the problem: The draft Republican plan would raise a lot of people’s taxes. Estimates from the Tax Policy Center suggest that limiting tax deductions and going from seven tax… -
media mention October 10, 2017 Select State News Coverage of ITEP’s 50-State Analysis of the GOP Tax Proposal
The Sentinel: Trump Tax Even in Harrisburg Will Feature Truckers The Columbus Dispatch: 15% of Ohioans Could See Tax Increase Under GOP Plan KGW Portland: Richest Oregonians Benefit Most from… -
media mention October 7, 2017 Ralph Nader Radio Hour: The Truth About Trump’s Tax Plan
Ralph and Alan Essig, Executive Director of Citizens for Tax Justice break down President Trump’s Tax Reform proposal and insurance expert, Robert Hunter, returns to explain what’s going on with hurricane and… -
media mention October 7, 2017 Electablog: Everything You Need to Know About the Trump Tax Plan
http://www.eclectablog.com/2017/10/episode-53-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-trump-tax-scam.html -
media mention October 5, 2017 Mother Jones: Republicans Are Already Giving Up on a Key Part of Trump’s Tax Plan
For the third time in eight days, a new study has found that President Donald Trump’s tax plan is a major handout to the richest Americans. On Wednesday, the left-leaning Institute on Taxation… -
media mention October 4, 2017 The Washington Monthly: The Republican Tax Cut Framework Is Already in Trouble
The tax cut framework suggests that Republicans will eventually define some corporate tax loopholes to close. They haven’t done so yet because that will unleash a host of corporate lobbyists… -
media mention October 2, 2017 Bloomberg: Trump Plan Aims New Foreign Tax at Apple, Other Multinationals
Currently the U.S. taxes corporate profits worldwide, no matter where they’re earned. That approach — which makes America unique among developed nations — comes with a large asterisk: Companies can… -
media mention September 30, 2017 Raleigh News & Observer: The Racial Wealth Divide Could Grow with Tax Changes
But that’s assuming nothing changes. If Trump moves forward with the policies he campaigned on, especially his tax “reform” plan, the gap surely grows. Trump’s tax plan is heavily skewed…