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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… -
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…