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Over the next month, 15 states will temporarily exempt a range of products from sales tax, joining one that held its sales tax holiday earlier this summer and two that do so a little later in the year. While these temporary suspensions may have some surface appeal, they have many significant downsides, as we explain in […]

With home values rising across the country, some residents are increasingly unhappy with their rising property tax bills. As legislators search for solutions, it is important to realize we have been here before — and we know what does not work. The last time states were persuaded to “fix” their property taxes by passing tight […]

President Trump this weekend signed into law a massive tax and spending megabill that will reduce revenue by around $570 billion in 2026 and mainly help the richest Americans and foreign investors. As a new report from ITEP details, Congress and the president could have spent less than half that much money on a tax bill […]

This afternoon President Trump signed the tax and spending megabill into law. See below for a statement from ITEP and related resources. STATEMENT FROM JON WHITEN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY: “With the tax and spending megabill that was signed into law today, Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are turning […]

The House of Representatives today narrowly passed a massive tax and spending reconciliation bill that now heads to President Trump’s desk. Please see below for a statement from ITEP and our latest updated analysis of how the bill’s tax provisions will affect families at different income levels nationally and in every state. STATEMENT from AMY […]

Today the Senate passed the tax and spending megabill, sending it to the House. See below for a statement from ITEP as well as our analyses of the tax impacts of the legislation.  STATEMENT from AMY HANAUER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY: “This abominable bill will make history – in […]

Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) With Senate Republicans hoping to hold a vote soon on their version of the tax and spending package passed by the House last month, a new national and state-by-state analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) finds that, like the House-passed bill, the Senate proposal favors the richest […]

This is a recklessly expensive bill that will expand economic inequality in America by making the tax code more tilted to the top, and pay for it in part by stripping health care from millions of Americans and rolling back critical climate investments.

After a floor session that began in the middle of the night, the House of Representatives has passed its reconciliation bill including massive tax cuts and deep cuts to spending. Statement from Amy Hanauer, Executive Director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: “It’s not surprising that this bill was written behind closed doors […]

This bill gives enormous additional tax cuts to wealthy people and corporations, spikes the deficit, and strips health care from millions of Americans.

So far this costly bill appears to double down on trickle down, with huge tax cuts that will further enrich the rich and not much for the rest of us. What’s more, many of the modest improvements for lower- and middle-income families are proposed to be temporary, whereas the benefits for the wealthiest are proposed to be permanent.

Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) According to multiple reports, the Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS Direct File program, a free electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency. Statement from ITEP Executive Director Amy Hanauer “The tax preparation industry has for years lobbied to prevent the IRS from providing a tool to […]

Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) A bill introduced in Congress would create an unprecedented 100% tax credit for donations to nonprofits that give out private K-12 school vouchers and create a lucrative tax shelter that would further enrich some of America’s wealthiest individuals. If passed, the Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025 (ECCA) would cost […]

Worldwide combined reporting negates the tax benefits of shifting corporate income offshore Public polling has consistently shown for decades that most people believe big multinational corporations are paying too little in taxes. Closing the loopholes these corporations use to avoid taxes is one of the most effective – and popular – solutions to this problem. […]

Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) The tax proposals announced by Vice President Harris would, on average, lead to a tax increase for the richest 1 percent of Americans and a tax cut for all other income groups, according to a new in-depth analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). This is in stark […]

Proposed tax changes would give richest 5% a tax cut, raise taxes on all other groups Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) The tax proposals announced by former President Trump would, on average, lead to a tax cut for the richest 5 percent of Americans and a tax increase for all other income groups, according to a […]

Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) Immigration policies have taken center stage in public debates this year, but much of the conversation has been driven by emotion, not data. A new in-depth study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy aims to help change that by quantifying how much undocumented immigrants pay in taxes – both […]

Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) Corporate tax cuts exacerbate economic and racial disparities, according to a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and Liberation in a Generation that is the first of its kind to analyze the distribution of these cuts across different racial and economic groups. This collaborative report examines the […]

The Supreme Court upheld the 2017 Trump tax law’s mandatory repatriation tax, one of the few revenue-raising measures in the law. The Court’s ruling is an important victory for fair taxation, as invalidating the tax would have given about 400 multinational corporations a collective $271 billion tax break.

The tax law signed by former President Trump in 2017 has slashed taxes for America’s largest, most profitable corporations, a new analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy shows.

Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) Chicago voters will on Tuesday decide whether to levy a higher real estate transfer tax on properties sold for more than $1 million to help fight homelessness. Regardless of the outcome in the Windy City, these “mansion taxes” are increasingly popular with local policymakers who are seeking innovative and progressive ways […]

When it comes to tax fairness, President Biden has a clear and compelling vision. Make large, profitable corporations and the wealthy pay their share, reduce taxes on low-income and working families with robust refundable tax credits, and use the trillions of dollars in new resources to create the kind of America we all want to see.

Contact: Jon Whiten ([email protected]) The tax overhaul signed into law by former President Donald Trump in 2017 cut the federal corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, but during the first five years it has been in effect, most profitable corporations paid considerably less than that. The details are explored in a […]

Child poverty is a problem. Corporations paying too much in taxes is not. Unfortunately, many members of Congress have refused to direct resources to help children in poverty unless an equal amount of resources is simultaneously directed towards corporate tax cuts.

The vast majority of state and local tax systems are upside-down, with the wealthy paying a far lesser share of their income in taxes than low- and middle-income families. That’s according to the latest edition of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s Who Pays?, the only distributional analysis of tax systems in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.