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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… -
media mention September 28, 2017 On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Totaling Up President Trump’s Tax Overhaul Plan
And now, it’s time for the Trump tax plan. A miracle for the middle class, the president said in Indianapolis yesterday. He’s selling hard. But there are knowns and unknowns… -
media mention September 28, 2017 Salon: Everyone Hates Trump’s Godawful Tax Plan — Except the GOP Donor Class
Wealthy businesses and individuals will benefit from the proposal in other ways as well, including a reduction in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent. On the… -
media mention September 28, 2017 Bloomberg: Stock Traders Celebrate Nonexistent Tax Cuts
Although Republicans say the plan is to reduce the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from the current 35 percent, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that more… -
media mention September 28, 2017 Think Progress: Trump’s Plan Gives Corporate Tax Lobbyists Nearly Everything They Want
Another key corporate giveaway in the proposal would allow multinational corporations to bring accumulated foreign earnings back to the homeland at a low one-time rate, known as a repatriation tax.… -
media mention September 27, 2017 Fox News: Trump, Republicans reveal tax plan: What to know
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy last week slammed Trump’s plan as it said it wouldn’t alleviate financial burdens of the middle class. “Vague promises can’t conceal the hard… -
media mention September 26, 2017 New York Times: Will a Corporate Tax Holiday Give Workers Anything to Cheer?
Apple alone is sitting on an overseas stash of almost $260 billion, according to Bloomberg, while Microsoft has more than $120 billion parked abroad. The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer does not… -
media mention September 25, 2017 New York Times: Nothing Is Too Strange for Cities Wooing Amazon to Build There
Tax policy experts are more skeptical of Amazon’s bidding process and how much cities stand to benefit. “Why are they doing this whole dog and pony show? Amazon wants something… -
media mention September 22, 2017 Mother Jones: The 5 Biggest Myths In Republicans’ Quest To Lower Corporate Taxes
And then there are the companies that pay far less than the average—or sometimes nothing at all. Earlier this year, the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that eighteen…