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media mention April 26, 2017 Center for Public Integrity: Big Tax Cuts for the Rich, Less for the Poor
Others see it differently. The Tax Foundation is one of the leading proponents of tax cuts that disproportionately favor the wealthy over low-income families, said Meg Wiehe, director of programs… -
media mention April 26, 2017 The American Prospect: Trump’s Big Tax Cut Is Unadulterated Trickle-Down Fundamentalism
For instance, a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy that examined the corporate tax filings of 258 Fortune 500 companies from 2008 to 2015 provided a snapshot… -
media mention April 26, 2017 New York Daily News: President Trump’s Tax Plan Ignores Campaign Promises to Help Middle Class, Reduce National Debt
Nor do they jibe with his and his presidential transition team’s guarantee that there wouldn’t be a big tax cut for wealthy people — now-Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin promised on… -
media mention April 24, 2017 The Seattle Times: Washington State Relies on a Rotten Tax System
Poor people across the country pay a higher percentage of their income in state and local taxes than do wealthier people, but Washington is the worst offender in that regard.… -
media mention April 21, 2017 The Boston Globe: We Know This Sounds Crazy, But GE Could Help Fix Our Unfair Tax Code
Don’t worry. This isn’t yet another screed calling you out as the king of all corporate tax dodgers. By now, most people probably have a general understanding that you’ve been… -
media mention April 19, 2017 Vox: Undocumented Immigrants Pay Taxes Too: Here’s How They Do It
Unauthorized workers aren’t eligible for benefits like the earned income tax credit — which is what the green box on the screen was warning Gonzalez about. Nor can they get… -
media mention April 18, 2017 On the Economy Podcast: Inclusive immigration policies
Episode #7 of the On the Economy podcast, on the fiscal and economic impacts of immigration, is yours for the clicking. Our guests–Erica Williams and Meg Wiehe, take us through… -
media mention April 18, 2017 Forbes: A Tax Day Note to Corporate America: Pay Your Fair Share
Of course, few, if any, corporations actually pay taxes at that rate. Earlier this spring, a study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) showed that, between 2008… -
media mention April 18, 2017 Mother Jones: Thanks to Trump, These Taxpayers May Avoid the IRS
There is a widely held misconception that undocumented immigrants do not pay taxes. However, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C. think tank, roughly half of undocumented… -
media mention April 11, 2017 The Fiscal Times: Tax-Free Shopping on Amazon Is Over
As recently as 2011, Amazon was collecting sales tax in just five states, home to 11 percent of the country’s population, according to Carl Davis of the Institute on Taxation and Economic… -
media mention April 11, 2017 Charleston Gazette-Mail: Cutting WV Income Tax Likely to Backfire
There are nine states with no income tax: Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, New Hampshire and Tennessee. Only Texas has seen job growth — as a result… -
media mention April 11, 2017 Atlanta Journal Constitution: Is a flat tax right for Georgia?
That’s the problem Tharpe has with studies like the Wallethub.com survey. That 50-state look at state taxes found Georgia has a tax burden of 8.2 percent of individual personal income. The… -
media mention April 11, 2017 Connecticut Post: These two big Connecticut companies avoided taxes for years
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington, D.C. analyzed 258 profitable Fortune 500 companies and found that 100 of them paid no taxes at least one year between… -
media mention April 11, 2017 The Minneapolis Start-Trubine: The Tax Fairness Gap is gone
But if states can compete on tax fairness, Minnesota is positioned to do well. The national Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy ranked Minnesota the fifth-fairest state in the country… -
media mention April 11, 2017 Chicago Tribune: Family finances: How a border tax would affect you
But economists at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan research group, say the adjustment overall could take years, and in the meantime, at least some portion of… -
media mention April 11, 2017 Minnesota Post: Health of Twin Cities lakes at risk from salt
The national Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy ranked Minnesota the fifth-fairest state in the country in 2014 for taxing those at higher incomes at nearly the same effective rate… -
media mention April 2, 2017 Boston Globe: Some See Risks Rising for Undocumented Who Pay Their Taxes
In total, they paid $23.6 billion in federal taxes, according to the Taxpayer Advocate Service, an arm of the Internal Revenue Service. Separately, undocumented workers pay nearly $12 billion in… -
media mention March 31, 2017 The San Diego Union Tribune: Sempra has paid no corporate taxes in recent years … and it’s all legal
According to figures compiled by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a left-of-center group based in Washington D.C., between 2008 and 2015 Sempra earned $7 billion in profit… -
media mention March 31, 2017 Christian Science Monitor: After years of fighting states, Amazon makes sales tax standard
Regardless of the motivation for the move, tax experts applaud the decision to make state sales tax collection standard. “This expansion in Amazon’s tax collection practices represents a step forward… -
media mention March 31, 2017 Philadelphia Inquirer: BAT Bad News for Pennsylvania
Furthermore, any attempt to tax imports will likely be retaliated against in other countries by enacting similar trade measures that boost their own exports and penalize U.S. imports. In a… -
media mention March 31, 2017 Bloomberg BNA: States May Eye Health Care Flop as Harbinger on Tax Reform
Whatever happens on taxes at the federal level, a debate on how Congress might or should broaden the base of what’s taxable is likely to occur, and that will be… -
media mention March 31, 2017 The Seattle Times: Boeing Paid Federal Taxes
Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the nonprofit Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which lobbies for tax fairness, said Boeing “continues finding new bases for postponing taxes.” “Boeing’s prodigious… -
media mention March 31, 2017 Salon: The rich pay fewer taxes than the poor, and get more services
The analysis starts with state and local taxes, which are often ignored by apologists for big-income tax cuts. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the state and local tax rate… -
media mention March 31, 2017 The Guardian: My undocumented friend: Carlos does the work few in Vermont want to do
While on the campaign trail, Donald Trump called CNN’s Erin Burnett “naive” for suggesting “illegal immigrants” pay taxes. But nationally, they contribute an estimated $11.64bn a year in just state… -
media mention March 31, 2017 St. Louis Public Radio: Proposition 1, a St. Louis ballot measure, regarding MetroLink, urban development funding
Newhouse cited a statistic from the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which found that the bottom 20 percent of income earners in the state of Missouri pay 5.8…