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Las Cruces Sun-News: Posich: Budget must address needs of NM families
February 17, 2016
There are also ways to rebalance our tax structure to make it less heavily reliant on working families. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the lowest income New Mexicans are paying a higher percentage of their income on overall taxes than the highest income households. We could modify capital gains deductions […]
Boston Globe: The millionaire myth
February 17, 2016
“According to the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, only 448 millionaires departed the state or died in 2008, just 36 more than in an average year. Millionaires moved for much the same reasons the rest of us do — better weather, to be with family, a new job, a favorable housing market. Very few […]
Inside Philanthropy: The Federal Budget Affects Everything. So Why Do Most Funders Ignore Fiscal Policy?
February 12, 2016
“None of this is exactly a secret, but what’s remarkable is just how little foundation funding goes to support work on taxes and fiscal policy writ large—particularly by those funders who have the most to lose from budgetary downsizing. The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities is relatively well supported, but has a budget a […]
Albuquerque Journal: Legislature must change course fast
February 12, 2016
“There are also ways to rebalance our tax structure to make it less heavily reliant on working families. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the lowest-income New Mexicans are paying a higher percentage of their income on overall taxes than the highest-income households. We could modify capital gains deductions that do not […]
Capital Journal: SD policy institute figures how sales tax increase will affect different households
February 10, 2016
“Smolnisky was trying to provide some more context for lawmakers debating the plan, based on an inkling she got months ago about funding an increase in teacher pay using higher sales taxes. “I was sitting next to two teachers and one said, ‘I would like a higher salary, but I don’t want to pay more […]
Opposing Views: Senate Report: Illegal Immigrants Received Millions In Obamacare Subsidies
February 10, 2016
“Whether or not the undocumented have earned their government benefits is also a point of contention. According to a study conducted by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), the undocumented paid $11.84 billion in state and federal taxes in 2012, Latin Post reports. “The fact is, undocumented immigrants already are paying billions […]
Tahlequah Daily Press: Penny sales tax a bad idea
February 10, 2016
“The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy did an analysis of Oklahoma’s tax system, showing an average low-income family spends about 10 percent of its budget on state and local taxes, compared with about 4 percent for high-income families. This is shifting more and more of the burden of funding government to those who can […]
Idaho Statesman: Idaho income taxes: What would Moyle tax cut bill do?
February 8, 2016
“The Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy’s analysis showed that Idaho’s wealthiest residents stand to gain the most. The policy center found that the top fifth of earners, with incomes above $99,000, would receive nearly three-fifths of the overall benefit. Idaho’s richest 1 percent — $444,000 and above — would receive an average break of $815. […]
Think Progress: New Report Debunks Key Conservative Argument For Corporate Tax Breaks
February 8, 2016
“Most of those businesses “would have been happy to locate in your state anyway,” economists Alan Peters and Peter Fisher concluded in a broad 2004 study of state tax incentives to business. Instead of buying significantly improved job prospects for their taxpayers, these expenditures “simply produce an unending merry-go-round of tax cuts and subsidies whose […]
Latin Post: Behind the Myth of Undocumented Immigrants Not Paying Income Taxes
February 8, 2016
“A study by the non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found undocumented immigrants paid $11.84 billion in state and federal taxes in 2012. Researchers suggested tax contributions would increase with President Obama’s executive orders on immigrations, specifically program aimed at protecting students and their parents from deportation. They concluded by saying state and local […]
The Sun Herald: PAUL HAMPTON: Where the rubber meets the yellow brick road
February 8, 2016
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan think tank, did a study that wrapped up in 2013 when it was presented to the National Council of State Legislatures. The short version: — Incentives are rarely the deciding factor — The money from the incentives won’t all stay in the state — Incentives […]
Las Vegas Sun: Why America needs immigrants (especially Nevada)
February 8, 2016
“Experts say that the implementation of these programs could be an economic boon to the country. According to a study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Nevada could see a $3 million increase in tax revenue if Obama’s executive action gets out of the courts, and a $9 million increase if all undocumented […]
Mountain Times: Report tries to paint a happy face on Kansas fiscal crisis
February 3, 2016
“The biggest benefits of Governor Brownback’s 2012 tax program went to the top 1 percent, while actually increasing taxes for the bottom 20 percent. Kansas now has the ninth most unfair tax system of any state in the country, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The poorest 20 percent of Kansans pay […]
NJ Today: Lawmakers plot to stop corporate tax dodgers
January 29, 2016
“According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy Analysis of SEC Filings, ExxonMobil paid a low tax rate over the past five years, and received a tax rebate from New Jersey in 2014 in the amount of $507,000. This resulted in a -5.6 percent tax rate that year.” Read more
Idaho Statesman: Study: Idaho’s wealthiest gain most under tax cut proposal
January 29, 2016
“An Idaho tax policy group says a proposed cut in the state’s top income tax rates and bump-up in the food tax credit to help lower-income earners overwhelmingly benefits Idaho’s wealthiest residents. The top fifth of earners in Idaho, with incomes above $99,000, would receive nearly three-fifths of the overall monetary benefit. Idaho’s richest one […]
Mainebiz: Immigrants key ‘to what Maine needs to solve its demographic challenges’
January 26, 2016
“There were 44,687 immigrants in Maine in 2013, comprising 3.4% of the state’s population, according to the 2013 American Community Survey. Some 3.2% of business owners in Maine are foreign-born and generate total net business income of $120 million. Undocumented immigrants paid $3.7 million in Maine state and local taxes in 2010, according to the […]
The Columbian: Jayne: Possible constitutional amendment a taxing prospect
January 26, 2016
“Lawmakers could seize the opportunity to elevate the discussion and tweak Washington’s tax system, which has been ranked by some as the most regressive in the nation. Because the state has no income tax and is heavily reliant upon sales tax, an inordinate percentage of the tax burden lands upon poor people, and the Institute […]
Independent: GE Healthcare: Minimal tax paid by NHS supplier ‘should be investigated urgently’
January 26, 2016
“Matt Gardner, executive director of the US research group the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said: “GE has been remarkably successful over a long period of time in zeroing out tax liabilities in the US and abroad.” Attempts to unravel where GE Healthcare pays tax, and how much, are obstructed by the complicated company […]
Indianapolis Star: Raise taxes on Indiana’s wealthy
January 19, 2016
“According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy the bottom 20% of Indiana taxpayers pay an average effective overall tax rate of around 12%. The top 1% of Indiana taxpayers pays an effective overall tax rate of around 5.2%. The taxes included in these percentages include income tax, excise tax, sales tax on individuals […]
Bayou Buzz: Governor Jon Bel Edwards transition report not serious for Louisiana budget hole
January 19, 2016
“Yet plenty of other material in its pages serves to covey the unserious nature of the effort. For example, in its discussion of tax reform, it exhorts any changes to make the system even more regressive than already – even though, according to a metric created by the leftist Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, […]
MassLive: ‘Millionaires’ tax’ raises questions of fairness, business practices, transit needs at Statehouse hearing
January 19, 2016
“According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the top 1 percent of Massachusetts earners (those making more than $860,000) pay 4.9 percent of their income in state and local taxes, while the middle 20 percent (those earning $44,000 to $70,000) pay 9.3 percent of their income in state and local taxes. This reflects […]
Salt Lake Tribune: Editorial: Lotteries hurt the poor, but not as badly as Utah’s tax system
January 19, 2016
“Arguably, it isn’t as bad here as it is in some other states. Last year, an outfit called the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which worries about financial inequality, ran some numbers and determined that, out of 50 states, Utah’s tax policy was the 34th most regressive. That is, 33 states were worse than […]
Boston Globe: The expected ripple effect of GE’s move to Boston
January 14, 2016
“The conglomerate is also known for its skill in finding tax advantages: Critics say it often pays minimal corporate taxes in the states where it does business. “It’s hard to see how taxes could be part of this calculus, since GE has been successful in reducing its state taxes to zero nationwide,” said Matthew Gardner, […]
Fontana Herald News: Protesters hold rally to show support for social programs
January 14, 2016
“Nunez said that it was long overdue for undocumented children to receive benefits, especially when their parents contribute billions of dollars to the economy through taxes. In fact, according to the Undocumented Immigrants’ State and Local Tax Contribution, overseen by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the 3.1 million undocumented residents living in California […]
Politico: It’s a Gas
January 12, 2016
“For nine states, the new year means changes to the gas tax. They’re all laid out in this handy chart, put together by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Who’s seeing the biggest jump in their gas tax? Utah, with a 4.9 cent increase as a result of new state legislation. West Virginians are […]
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