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Oklahoma Policy Institute: 5 things you should know about Oklahoma taxes

• By ITEP Staff

It’s tax day — the annual event when procrastinators, or those who just like to live on the edge, rush to get their tax returns filed before the midnight deadline. If your return is safely filed, or if you just want another excuse to procrastinate, here are 5 things in 5 charts that everyone should […]

Fiscal Policy Center: Corning and MasterCard Paid .6% in State Taxes

• By ITEP Staff

As New York struggles with tough budget decisions about essential public services, profitable Fortunate 500 companies like Corning, MasterCard, Lowes and Consolidated Edison are paying 2% or less in state income taxes for 2012 thanks to copious loopholes, lavish giveaways and crafty accounting. The recently passed state budget did nothing to close these loopholes and […]

Voice for Illinois for Children: Improving Tax Fairness Through Income Tax Reform

• By ITEP Staff

When adding up the effect of all state and local taxes, Illinois asks middle- and low-income households to pay a percentage of their income that is two to three times higher than the highest-income households pay. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can all pay our fair share to make sure Illinois has […]

Economic Progress Institute: Improve Rhode Island’s Earned Income Tax Credit to Help Hard-working Rhode Islanders

• By ITEP Staff

Rhode Island is among 25 states and the District of Columbia that offer a state EITC, but unlike most states, the credit is only partially refundable. Just over 83,000 Rhode Island taxpayers claimed the state’s EITC in Tax Year 2012 . The average credit was $119. Of those taxpayers receiving a credit, 73,119 received a […]

Oregon Center for Public Policy: Tax Facts That Matter

• By ITEP Staff

Tax Facts That Matter: 2014 Edition Full Report

North Carolina Justice Center: Who Pays in 2014 – Tax Plan Creates Winners and Losers in North Carolina

• By ITEP Staff

Changes are coming to who pays taxes in North Carolina, and the news is not good for middle- and low-income taxpayers. This tax season marks the final year taxpayers will file their income taxes under the state’s old tax code and by next year it will be apparent to many taxpayers that the tax plan […]

Chicago Now: Pope Francis and a moral argument for immigration reform

April 14, 2014

(Original Post) By Teresa Puente, Sunday at 8:38 pm President Obama has failed to persuade the Republican controlled U.S. House of Representatives to pass immigration reform, but if anybody can make a moral argument it is Pope Francis. These two men who broke barriers, the first Latin American pope and the first African- American president, […]

The Courier-Journal: Pass tax reform for 21st century Kentucky

April 11, 2014

(Original post) Col Owens, April 11, 2014 The General Assembly has just passed another inadequate state budget. And once again, it has failed to give Kentucky a tax system that will allow it to compete in the 21st century economy. As a legal aid attorney and education advocate for 35 years, I’ve long witnessed firsthand […]

The Chicago Tribune: Four reasons why Mayor Emmanuel shouldn’t reject a city tax

April 11, 2014

(Original post) By Eric Zorn, April 11, 2014 I reject … the idea of a city income tax. I think that’s not the right way to go… Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, responding Wednesday to questions about how the city will shore up its sagging pension funds I reject the idea, too, just as I reject […]

Springfield News-Sun: Benefits of tax proposal plan debated

April 11, 2014

Information from the Institute on Taxation and Economic policy showed the top 1 percent of Ohio taxpayers would receive about $2,847 in tax cuts, but Schiller said residents making between $34,000 and $54,000 a year would only see a tax break of about $13.

California Budget Project: Who Pays Taxes in California?

• By ITEP Staff

A new CBP report — released in advance of Tax Day — examines state and local taxes in California and shows that low-income households are currently contributing a disproportionate share of their incomes. Read the Full Report

Center for American Progress: How the Ryan Budget Fails Our Economy by Failing Economics

• By ITEP Staff

When House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) introduced his latest budget resolution, it predictably included harsh cuts to the vital programs for poor and middle-class Americans that are at the core of the progressive agenda. But the House Republican budget is not just contrary to progressive values; it is also the wrong approach for […]

Life of the Law Podcast: Episode 31 – People and Their Taxes

April 9, 2014

(Original Post) Written by Alisa Roth & LOTL Staff on Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 Clara Orozco got her first job, waiting tables, three days after she arrived in New York from Mexico. Since then, she’s worked as a cashier at McDonald’s, painted nails, and cleaned houses. And every year, whether she’s been paid by cash […]

The Tennessean: Hall tax cut gets new push

April 8, 2014

(Original Post) 5:07 p.m. CDT April 7, 2014 Tennessee lawmakers are seriously considering a new proposal to roll back the state’s tax on investments, even as they wrestle with a growing hole in the state budget. More than 90 legislators have signed onto a pledge from a prominent anti-tax organization to support a measure that […]

Cincinnati Enquirer: Kentucky’s new budget inadequate for 21st century

April 7, 2014

(Original Post) CIN 12:31 a.m. EDT April 6, 2014 The Kentucky General Assembly has just passed another inadequate state budget. And once again, it has failed to give Kentucky a tax system that will allow it to compete in the 21st-century economy. As a legal aid attorney and education advocate for 35 years, I’ve long […]

MetroWest Daily News: Ballot question could halt tax

April 7, 2014

(Original Post) By Brian Benson Daily News Staff Posted Apr. 5, 2014 @ 11:46 pm A measure lawmakers approved last year to index the gas tax to inflation is prompting debate amid an effort to repeal the provision. Lawmakers last year increased the gas tax from 21 cents per gallon to 24 cents per gallon […]

Wall Street Journal: States Raise Gas Taxes to Pay for Infrastructure

April 7, 2014

(Original Post) As Congress Only Takes Short-Term Steps, Governors Seek More Funds for Roads By JOSH MITCHELL Updated April 4, 2014 7:32 p.m. ET GEORGETOWN, Del.—States and cities desperate to build and repair roads and other infrastructure—but frustrated by inertia in Congress—are raising their own levies and turning to private companies for funding. Six states […]

KY Forward: Kentucky needs to take its future in its own hands and make tax system fairer

April 4, 2014

Thursday, April 3, 2014 The General Assembly has just passed another inadequate state budget. And once again, it has failed to give Kentucky a tax system that will allow it to compete in the 21st-century economy. As a legal aid attorney and education advocate for 35 years, I’ve long witnessed firsthand how our state budget […]

Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier: Gas tax

April 2, 2014

(Original Post) A new fact sheet from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy indicates Iowa is one of seven states where the gas tax rates are “stuck in neutral.” According to the institute’s analysis, 21 states have gone a decade or more without increasing their gas tax rates and 16 states have gone two […]

Globe Gazette: Iowa’s Among Gas Tax Rates Stuck in Neutral

April 2, 2014

(Original Post) A new fact sheet from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy indicates Iowa is one of seven states where the gas tax rates are “stuck in neutral.” According to the institute’s analysis, 21 states have gone a decade or more without increasing their gas tax rates and 16 states have gone two […]

Politico: Morning Transportation 04/02/2014

April 2, 2014

(Original Post) When each state last raised its gas tax (in chart form), via the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: http://bit.ly/1hg0cA7

Public News Service: Many Big Corporations Paying No State Taxes

March 28, 2014

(Original Post) March 27, 2014 CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Many huge, profitable corporations pay no state taxes, according to a new report from Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy. The report looks at 300 Fortune 500 companies that made a profit every year from 2008 to 2012 and found at […]

The Washington Post: New report slams Kansas tax cuts

March 28, 2014

(Original Post)  BY NIRAJ CHOKSHI March 27 at 3:22 pm In 2012, Kansas enacted one of the largest tax cuts of any state ever, and the short-term results aren’t promising, a new report finds. “Kansas is a cautionary tale, not a model,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities researchers Michael Leachman and Chris Mai write […]

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Lessons for Other States from Kansas’ Massive Tax Cuts

• By ITEP Staff

Tax cuts enacted in Kansas in 2012 were among the largest ever enacted by any state, and have since been held up by tax-cut proponents in other states as a model worth replicating.  In truth, Kansas is a cautionary tale, not a model.  As other states recover from the recent recession and turn toward the […]

The Intelligencer: Total Republican control produces Harrisburg scam

March 27, 2014

(Original Post) Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:15 am By Joe Frederick The Republicans have been in complete control of Harrisburg since 2011. The governor is a Republican, and both the state House and the state Senate have Republican majorities (and there are no filibusters in the Pennsylvania Constitution). So what have they done with […]