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media mention October 25, 2016 Quartz: It’s possible that half of undocumented US immigrants have paid more taxes than Donald Trump
“She’s right on the proportion of unauthorized immigrants who pay taxes, according to research from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, or ITEP.” Read more -
media mention October 25, 2016 News Review: Burden remains
“In addition, Nevada finishes just out of the ‘terrible top 10’ list of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s assessment of overall fairness in state tax systems. Nevada ranks… -
media mention October 18, 2016 Newsmax: AFT Criticizes ‘Neovouchers’ for Private Schools
“States using ‘neovouchers’ – or backdoor vouchers – to encourage donations to private school scholarship funds or to offset the costs of private school tuitions illegally allow wealthy taxpayers to… -
media mention October 18, 2016 FAIR: ‘Real Estate Investors Should Be Treated Like Any Other Businessmen’
“The statement revealed nothing we didn’t know about Trump, but it did raise a few questions for some folks about taxes—who pays what and why. Richard Phillips is senior policy… -
media mention October 18, 2016 Republican Eagle: Offshore tax havens cost U.S. $718 billion in taxes
“According to a new report, Offshore Shell Games 2016, by Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ), the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) & the U.S. Public Interest Group Education… -
media mention October 18, 2016 Texarkana Gazette: How some tax policies favor the rich
“‘It’s emblematic of the way most people feel about the tax system,’ said Matt Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research… -
media mention October 18, 2016 Times Reporter: Challenger Jeremiah Johnson seeks 98th District House seat
“The study, ‘Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States,’ produced by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) and released in Ohio by… -
media mention October 18, 2016 mySA: Immigrants bring immense value
“And though there are competing analyses about whether unlawfully present immigrants contribute more to the economy than they cost in education and health expenses, what cannot be denied is that,… -
media mention October 18, 2016 Standard-Times: Immigrants bring value to nation
“And though there are competing analyses about whether unlawfully present immigrants contribute more to the economy than they cost in education and health expenses, what cannot be denied is that,… -
media mention October 18, 2016 United Steelworkers: $718 Billion Of Corporate Tax-Dodging
“‘Multinational corporations’ use of tax havens allows them to avoid an estimated $100 billion in federal income taxes each year,’ says a new report just released by Citizens for Tax… -
media mention October 18, 2016 Times Leader: How tax policy favors the rich
“‘It’s emblematic of the way most people feel about the tax system,’ said Matt Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research… -
media mention October 18, 2016 Politifact: Roy Cooper says Pat McCrory raised taxes on the middle class ‘in 67 different ways’
“A 2015 study from the liberal groups Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) and The Budget & Tax Center found that the bottom 20 percent of North Carolinians paid… -
media mention October 17, 2016 The Beachwood Reporter: 32 Illinois Fortune 500 Companies Holding At Least $147 Billion Offshore
“In 2015, more than 73 percent of Fortune 500 companies maintained subsidiaries in offshore tax havens, according to Offshore Shell Games, released this week by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund,… -
media mention October 17, 2016 Wisconsin Gazette: 73 percent of Fortune 500 companies playing offshore shell game
“More than 73 percent of Fortune 500 companies maintained subsidiaries in offshore tax havens in 2015, according to ‘Offshore Shell Games.’ The new study was released this week by the… -
media mention October 17, 2016 Mic: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and other big tech companies top list of tax-avoiders
“The report, authored by researchers from Citizens for Tax Justice, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, found that 73% of U.S. Fortune 500… -
media mention October 14, 2016 The Daily Reporter: How some tax policy favors the rich
“’It’s emblematic of the way most people feel about the tax system,’ said Matt Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research… -
media mention October 14, 2016 American Federation of Teachers: Backdoor ‘Neovouchers’ Allow Wealthy to Profit off Public Funds for Schools
“Ten U.S. states are blatantly circumventing public opposition or constitutional obstacles to publicly funded private school vouchers by allowing wealthy taxpayers to turn a profit on ‘charitable’ contributions to private… -
media mention October 14, 2016 Pharos-Tribune: Immigrants bring immense value to America
“And though there are competing analyses about whether unlawfully present immigrants contribute more to the economy than they cost in education and health expenses, what cannot be denied is that,… -
media mention October 14, 2016 WTOK News Center: Mississippi tax code getting scrutiny
“But check out a chart from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. It’s all about state and local taxes. On one end is the lowest income families in the… -
media mention October 14, 2016 The Middletown Press: Several big Connecticut firms keep offshore subsidiaries for tax purposes
“The report, Offshore Shell Games, was compiled by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, and Citizens for Tax Justice.” Read more -
media mention October 14, 2016 CBS News: Is your state next to raise its gas tax?
“’There has been a lot of procrastination,’ said Carl Davis, research director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. ‘It’s an issue that the states cannot put off any… -
media mention October 13, 2016 DJournal: Mississippi’s poor pay more in taxes
“‘The state’s low- and middle-income earners paid nearly double the percentage of their income in taxes compared to the state’s highest income families,’ Donovan wrote in a report compiled for… -
media mention October 11, 2016 Bloomberg BNA: U.S. Lags Behind Most OECD Countries in Tax System
“But the report is ‘a pretty incomplete view’ of a good tax system, because it glosses over the idea that the main goal should be raising money for public investments,… -
media mention October 11, 2016 International Business Times: Corporations Avoid Taxes By More Than The GDP Of France
“‘To put that in context, it is an amount larger than the GDP of France,’ said Clark Gascoigne, the deputy director of FACT, a coalition that includes Citizens for Tax… -
media mention October 11, 2016 The Huffington Post: The Latino Contributions to New York
“According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, undocumented immigrants pay $11.6 billion in state and local taxes every year at an average rate of 8 percent, a significantly…