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Oregon Center for Public Policy: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Higher Prices for Everyone Else: the Net Effect of Trump’s Inflationary Policies

• By ITEP Staff

Only the richest 5 percent of Oregonians are better off from the combined impact of tax changes and inflationary policies enacted by the Trump administration and the congressional Republican majority, according to a new analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP).

National Conference of State Legislatures: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Wealth Taxes

• By ITEP Staff

California is the only state currently considering a new wealth tax, but more states are turning to high-income earners to raise revenue.

Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator: 34 Ways to Tax AI

• By ITEP Staff

This paper outlines 34 different ways to tax AI across local, state, and federal jurisdictions. If policymakers fail to tax AI, it will not be for lack of options.

Economic Policy Institute: Voters in Colorado and Florida Face Major Tax Questions on the November Ballot

• By ITEP Staff

Lots of media attention around the upcoming midterm elections is understandably focused on which party will win control of Congress, as well as the many state legislative chambers and governorships that are up for grabs.

D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute: Raising Revenue Is Necessary for the District’s Finances and Future

• By ITEP Staff

To solve DC’s mounting budget crisis without deepening entrenched racial and economic inequalities, DC lawmakers should raise progressive revenue sources to help turn the fiscal tide.

Michigan Families for Fair Care: Middle-Income Families Are Paying $1,700 More This Year While Wealthiest Come Out on Top

• By ITEP Staff

Middle-income families are paying about $1,700 more in taxes and other costs this year, including from the high price of gas, groceries and health care, according to a new analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Meanwhile, only the top 1% of earners are paying $12,560 less this year.

Arizona Center for Economic Progress: Immigration Enforcement Comes at an Economic Cost for Arizona

• By ITEP Staff

A sharp increase in federal immigration arrests may have cost the U.S. hundreds of thousands of jobs last year, with economic consequences reaching far beyond the people taken into custody.

Private Equity Stakeholder Project: How PE Could Profit From Federal School Voucher Programs While Diminishing Services

• By ITEP Staff

The brief takes a closer look at two areas private equity is expanding into: tutoring and special education services.

Policy Matters Ohio: A Fair Share Tax Could Rebalance Ohio’s Tax Code

• By ITEP Staff

A fair share tax offers Ohio a better path forward. By requiring the state’s highest-income households to contribute in proportion to their ability to pay, it would restore balance to a tax system that has increasingly favored the wealthiest.

Institute for the Public Good: A New Path To Transforming Chicago’s Financial Future

• By ITEP Staff

Moving away from false binaries, and creating a pathway with real solutions to solving Chicago's fiscal crisis, while charting a path for growth and increased quality of life for all residents.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Ballot Measures Restricting State Revenues and Citizen Initiatives Would Impede Needed Investments and Supports

• By ITEP Staff

Voters across the country will decide state ballot measures in the November elections that would reduce state lawmakers’ ability to raise revenue, restrict local governments’ agency to set their own tax policies, and limit voters’ ability to enact policies directly through citizen initiatives.

DC Fiscal Policy Institute: DC Can Raise Nearly $200 Million With a Simple Tax on Proceeds from Wealth

• By ITEP Staff

To solve DC’s mounting budget crisis without deepening entrenched racial and economic inequalities, DC lawmakers should tax DC’s extreme concentration of wealth to help turn the fiscal tide.

Policy Matters Ohio: Capital Gains Tax Cuts Benefit Few Ohioans, Harms Far More

• By ITEP Staff

Ohio House Bill 617 would eliminate state and local taxes on capital gains. Fewer than 1 in 5 Ohio tax filers would benefit from a capital gains tax cut, and those benefits would primarily go to a small number of high-income households. The resulting loss of state revenue could limit funding for public investments that contribute to long-term economic growth and opportunity for all Ohioans.

Immigration Research Initiative: ICE Spike Means 32,000 Fewer Jobs in Minnesota

• By ITEP Staff

It is increasingly clear that the program of mass deportation being carried out by the current administration is hurting American workers, both immigrants and those born in the United States. Nowhere has this been more stark than in Minnesota. In the peak months of December 2025 through February 2026, the massive surge in ICE arrests ripped people away from their families, their jobs, and their communities. A shocking nearly 4,000 arrests took place in Minnesota…

Pennsylvania Senate Democrats: Senator Kearney Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Repeal Uniformity Clause, Expand Options for Tax Fairness in Pennsylvania

• By ITEP Staff

Senator Tim Kearney (D-Delaware) is introducing legislation to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution by repealing the Uniformity Clause, a provision that locks Pennsylvania into one of the nation’s most regressive tax systems and prevents lawmakers from pursuing tax policies that better support working families and small businesses.

Policy Matters Ohio: Gas Tax Holiday Won’t Make Ohio Affordable; Legislators Have Better Options

• By ITEP Staff

The gas tax holiday is poorly targeted tax policy that provides too little relief to the people who need it most, drains crucial resources from the state budget, and fails to confront one of the primary drivers of the affordability crisis: inadequate wages for working people. Ohioans need relief. They also deserve better than a temporary tax gimmick.

American Civil Liberties Union: 76 Ways Mass Deportation Is Breaking Our Democracy

• By ITEP Staff

This report traces 76 ways the Trump administration has used the mass deportation agenda to undermine America’s multiracial democracy and civil rights and liberties.

Florida Policy Institute: Amendment 3 Local Funding Cuts Calculator

• By ITEP Staff

FPI's online calculator, powered by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, shows how Amendment 3 would impact funding in your neighborhood.

Massachusetts Budget & Policy Center: Strengthening the Foundation: 28 Progressive Revenue Options for Building a Better Massachusetts

• By ITEP Staff

This new tool describes 28 ways the Commonwealth could generate substantial new revenue in a manner that would fall least heavily on people with the least ability to pay.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: In Radical Departure From Long-Standing Policy and Federal Law, Trump Administration Proposes New Regulation to Take Tax Credits Away From Many Families That Include Immigrants With Lawful Status

• By ITEP Staff

The Treasury Department has proposed a rule that would take away the refunded portion of certain tax credits from many individuals with lawful immigration status.

Arizona Center for Economic Progress: What Does a Strong Arizona Economy Actually Look Like?

• By ITEP Staff

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy ranks Arizona as having the 13th most regressive tax system in the country. Colorado ranks 39th.

District of Columbia Tax Expenditure Report Cites ITEP Analysis

• By ITEP Staff

The District’s property tax circuit breaker program (also known as “Schedule H”) allows low-income homeowners and renters to claim a property tax credit applied to the taxpayer’s income tax liability

Audio: ITEP’s Sarah Austin Warns Against Swapping Income Taxes for Sales Taxes.

• By Sarah Austin

ITEP Senior Analyst Sarah Austin appeared on the Oregon Center for Public Policy’s “Policy for the People” podcast, discussing tax policy choices that would ask more from working families instead of the wealthy.

DC Fiscal Policy Institute: Five Principles for Strong DC Tax Policy

• By ITEP Staff

Lawmakers can use this moment to advance a more progressive and racially-just tax system by evaluating tax proposals across five dimensions: equity, adequacy and stability, simplicity, neutrality, and accountability.

North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: Income tax limits would deepen racial inequity in NC

• By ITEP Staff

This November, North Carolinians will vote on a constitutional amendment that would limit the state income tax rate to 3.5 percent both for personal and corporate income taxes, a significant decrease from 7 percent, which was the maximum rate approved by voters in 2018.

Advocates and policymakers at the state and federal levels rely on ITEP’s analytic capabilities to inform their debates on proposed tax policy changes. In any given year, ITEP fields requests for analyses of policies in 25 or more states. ITEP also works with national partners to provide analyses of federal tax policy proposals. This section highlights reports that use ITEP analyses to make a compelling case for progressive tax reforms.