States
Local Policy Analyst
March 7, 2024 • By ITEP Staff
ITEP seeks a Local Policy Analyst or Senior Policy Analyst to advance equitable and adequate tax policy in cities, towns, and counties across the country.
State Tax Watch 2024
January 23, 2024 • By ITEP Staff
Updated July 15, 2024 In 2024, state lawmakers have a choice: advance tax policy that improves equity and helps communities thrive, or push tax policies that disproportionately benefit the wealthy, drain funding for critical public services, and make it harder for low-income and working families to get ahead. Despite worsening state fiscal conditions, we expect […]
Abortion-Restricting States Do Least for Children
July 13, 2022 • By Amy Hanauer
Lawmakers have passed laws in 22 states that either immediately or soon will greatly restrict women’s rights to decide whether and when to have children. These states have some of the worst tax, spending and labor market policies for families in the U.S.
State Policy Associate or Policy Analyst (Research Team)
June 23, 2022 • By ITEP Staff
Read as PDF The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) is a non-profit research organization that analyzes tax laws and tax proposals at the federal, state and local levels. ITEP’s work demonstrates the need to raise more revenue from corporations and the wealthy. Our small, influential staff works with policymakers and front-line partners to research, support, and develop tax policies that address […]
State Policy Associate or Policy Analyst (Policy Team)
June 9, 2022 • By ITEP Staff
Read as PDF The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) is a non-profit research organization that analyzes tax laws and tax proposals at the federal, state and local levels. ITEP’s work demonstrates the need to raise more revenue from corporations and wealthy individuals. Our small, influential staff works with policymakers and front-line partners to research, support, and develop tax policies that address […]
Communications Director
April 25, 2022 • By ITEP Staff
Read as PDF The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy seeks an experienced communications director to build the visibility and influence of our tax policy research. This senior position reports to ITEP’s executive director. ITEP, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization, conducts rigorous analyses of tax and economic proposals and provides recommendations to shape tax policy. […]
Model Development Intern Summer 2022
April 21, 2022 • By ITEP Staff
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the country’s premier progressive tax policy research organization, seeks a model development intern for 28 hours a week for 10 weeks between June and August 2022, with flexibility on precise dates. Preference given to those available for on-site work in Northeast Ohio but remote applicants may apply.
Massachusetts Budget & Policy Center: Ending the Tax Penalty Against Working Immigrants: MA Should Follow Other States Extending EITC to Immigrant Tax Filers
May 17, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a key program for reducing poverty in the United States. Together with the federal Child Tax Credit, these low-income federal credits lifted 7.5 million households above the poverty line in 2019, more than any other program except Social Security. In Massachusetts, the EITC provides support to more than […]
Open Sky Policy Institute: LB 64: A costly measure that is unlikely to impact retiree migration
May 11, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
LB 64, a bill slated for second-round debate on today’s legislative agenda, is a costly measure that would give wealthy retirees a sizable tax break under the premise of keeping them from fleeing to other states. Few retirees, however, are likely to flee regardless of what happens to our tax code and those who do […]
Open Sky Policy Institute: Policy brief — LB 432: A big tax cut for corporations
May 6, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
LB 432, which will soon be up for debate on select file, would give a sizable tax cut to corporations and their shareholders. The vast majority of the tax cut would go out of state and the revenue losses created by the bill would threaten services that Nebraskans need. Read more
Open Sky Policy Institute: Policy Brief — LR 11CA presents a dangerous, untested proposal
May 5, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
Under the proposed 10.64% tax rate, and with the allowance, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) finds that all income groups would receive a tax cut on average, with the exception of the second-lowest quintile — those with incomes between $24,000 and $38,800 — who would pay 2.4% more of their income in […]
Washington Governor’s Office: Inslee signs economic justice legislation to help working families
May 4, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
Gov. Jay Inslee today signed an economic justice legislative package, including the Working Families Tax Credit and the capital gains excise tax, that starts the process of making Washington’s upside-down tax system fairer and more equitable. Read more
Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy: House Bill 389 and Idaho’s Property Tax Circuit Breaker
May 4, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
House Bill 389 is a complicated bill that would affect many different components of the Idaho property tax statute. Revenue from property taxes, both for real property and business personal property, support local public services – such as roads, courts, and schools. Property taxes are regressive, meaning they fall harder on lower-income Idahoans than others. […]
Arizona Center for Economic Progress: The flat tax falls flat for most Arizonans
April 28, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
The Arizona legislature is poised to permanently cut over a billion dollars in state revenues, the largest tax cut in the last three decades. This cut will make Arizona’s tax system more regressive than it is today with 91 percent of the tax cuts going to people in the top 20 percent of incomes. Read […]
Movement for Black Lives (M4BL): Restructure Tax Codes
April 28, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
The current taxation system exacerbates economic and racial disparities rather than generating sufficient revenue to be redistributed for the common good. Billionaires and corporations benefit from subsidies and tax breaks to accumulate wealth while avoiding taxation. Meanwhile low-income people and communities, who are disproportionately Black, are targeted for higher taxes and more aggressive enforcement of […]
Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy: Analysis and Considerations Related to House Bill 380
April 26, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
The Idaho Legislature is considering a proposal that would reduce the number of income tax brackets from seven to five, cut income and corporate tax rates and provide a one-time tax rebate. HB380 is a revised version of HB332, with one significant change, the elimination of two tax brackets, which serves to make Idaho’s tax […]
Washington Center for Equitable Growth: Weekend reading: Inequities in U.S. taxation and homeownership edition
April 23, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
Homeowners of color who sell their homes receive lower prices due to such factors as reduced neighborhood school quality, but they pay the same property taxes because these factors are not incorporated into tax assessments. Black and Hispanic homeowners also face discrimination in assessment appeals. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy explains the regressivity […]
NC Policy Watch: NC needs to fix its tax code to secure a just recovery — for everyone
April 23, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
North Carolina’s current tax code asks the top to pay less as a share of their income than taxpayers with poverty-level incomes. By putting in place tax policies that would ask just 1 percent of North Carolinians to pay slightly more, North Carolina can invest in a more equitable, just recovery for everyone. Read more
Policy Matters Ohio: House Budget chooses tax cuts over more support for key public programs
April 15, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
The 2022-23 state budget presents Ohio lawmakers with an opportunity to rebuild communities so all people, no matter what they look like or how much money they have, can thrive and succeed. But instead of using all available options to support communities, the Ohio House Republican majority proposed a budget that would cut income taxes […]
California Budget & Policy Center: Promoting Racial Equity Through California’s Tax and Revenue Policies
April 15, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
Legacies of historical racist policies and ongoing discrimination in areas such as education, employment, and housing have barred many Californians of color from economic opportunities. As a result, Californians of color — particularly Black, Latinx, and American Indian Californians — are less likely to have high incomes and to have built enough wealth to be […]
NC Policy Watch: Some simple truths about the taxes corporations pay and Biden’s proposal blow the whistle on them
April 14, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
Discovery No. 1 one is that almost no major U.S. corporation, certainly not those that do business overseas, actually pays the 21% corporate tax rate, set by law. In fact, on average, Fortune 500 companies pay about half that much – 11.3% according to the non-profit Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy and Taxation, working […]
NC Policy Watch: New report: NC tax policy promotes racial inequities in numerous ways
April 14, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
North Carolina’s tax code and budget are wrought with such policy choices, which can result in racist outcome that worsen barriers to well-being for people and communities of color, according to new data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The greater tax load carried by Black, Indigenous, and Latinx residents has been […]
Arizona Center for Economic Progress: Arizona’s regressive tax policy contributes significantly to economic and racial injustice
April 13, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
Tax policy plays a role in the fight for economic and racial justice. The type of tax and how it is structured matters. A new report issued by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), Taxes and Racial Equity , explains how historical and contemporary policy choices have resulted in tax codes that maintain […]
North Carolina Justice Center: State Tax Policy Is Not Race Neutral
April 13, 2021 • By ITEP Staff
North Carolina’s tax code and budget are wrought with such policy choices, which can result in racist outcomes that worsen barriers to well-being for people and communities of color, according to new data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The greater tax load carried by Black, Indigenous, and Latinx residents has been […]
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