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Wichita Eagle: Did Donald Trump get tax tips from Sam Brownback?
October 2, 2015
“Matt Gardner, the executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, sees some similarities between Trump’s tax proposals unveiled this week and the tax changes Brownback ushered into law during his first term in office. Gardner scrutinized Trump’s tax plan in a post on the liberal-leaning think tank’s Tax Justice Blog Wednesday, scrutinizing […]
Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise: Sales tax increase won’t fix education in Oklahoma
October 2, 2015
“The sales tax increase would add approximately $610 million annually to the state’s education budget. It would cost medium income Oklahomans about $260 a year, according to a data analysis used in an Oklahoma Watch story. The bottom 20 percent of Oklahoma households would chip in $90 more annually. The top 1 percent would pay […]
The Oklahoma Watch: Study: Education Sales Tax Would Cost Average Family $262
October 2, 2015
“As a percentage of income, though, the tax would fall hardest on the poor. That’s because they spend a bigger portion of their income on retail purchases. The analysis was prepared in recent days by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. It was requested by the […]
Citizen-Times: Legislature revs up tax on car repair, other services
September 28, 2015
“Here are figures from the N.C. Justice Center’s Budget and Tax Center summarizing the way tax changes in the new state budget bill will affect people at different levels of income. They are derived from a database of information on North Carolina taxpayers maintained by the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy. The figures […]
The Oregonian: Would consumers or big corporations pay huge tax hike headed toward Oregon ballot?
September 28, 2015
“Matthew Gardner, executive director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said his group – which is associated with the left-of-center Center for Tax Justice – also dislikes gross receipts taxes. They tend to be regressive, complex and unfair to certain kinds of businesses, he said. But Gardner said that because Oregon doesn’t have […]
CNBC: Are Immigrants Really Freeloaders? New Study Backs Trump’s Attacks
September 25, 2015
“The 50-state analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that about 8.1 million of the 11.4 million illegal immigrants who were employed paid in excess of $11.8 billion in state and municipal taxes in 2012. The implication of the report by the tax analysis foundation was that — amid growing opposition […]
Washington Post: America’s immigration ‘dumping ground’ contributes to vibrancy and growth
September 25, 2015
“Like Ross, Mr. Trump is right in the sense that immigrants — and here we assume Mr. Trump is referring to the illegal variety, though he doesn’t bother much with fine distinctions — are in rough circumstances compared with native-born Americans. On average they are less educated, less wealthy and less likely to become wealthy. […]
The Highland County Press: Report: Tax policy benefits flow heavily to wealthiest Ohioans
September 25, 2015
“The top 1 percent of Ohioans on average will see a $17,618 annual reduction in state taxes as a result of major tax changes made during the Kasich administration, while the bottom fifth will pay $17 more, according to a new report by Policy Matters Ohio. The windfall for the wealthy results from cuts […]
Orlando Sentinel: Florida nice to rich, mean to poor, tax survey says
September 25, 2015
“WalletHub first surveyed over 1,000 Americans on what they consider a fair state and local tax system. The site then used data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and compared the real state and local tax burden of households to what Americans think is fair at various income levels. Most respondents said […]
Newsmax: Illegal Immigration Figures in New Jersey
September 25, 2015
“Most illegal immigrants pay state and federal taxes, although the payments are generally credited to an account other than for the workers. In New Jersey, undocumented workers are believed to pay as much as $613 million annually in taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.” Read more
Inlander: FALSENOMICS: Shedding the lies we’ve heard about the state budget will help make a tough problem more solvable
September 25, 2015
“Washington is currently ranked 35th in the country in combined state and local tax rates, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. With our unusual lack of income and capital-gains taxes, we also have the shameful distinction of being the most upside-down tax state in the entire country, according to the Institute on Taxation and […]
The Arizona Republic: Shhhh…don’t tell pope Arizona robs the poor
September 23, 2015
“In Arizona, the most wealthy among us are taxed the least, percentage wise, and the poorest the most. According to a report this month by the non-profit, non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), “While Arizona’s reputation as a “low tax state” is accurate for wealthy households, it bears little resemblance to reality for […]
Nashville Business Journal: Report: Tennessee’s tax code is kind to the 1 percent
September 23, 2015
The results of that survey suggest Americans think a tax system is fair when higher-income households pay a greater percentage of their income than lower-income households (or in shorthand, a progressive tax system). WalletHub then compared the tax systems in the 50 states with these results, using estimates from the Institute on Taxation and […]
The News & Observer: An NC budget that chooses decline over investment
September 21, 2015
“Middle- and low-income wage earners won’t see a meaningful boost from the tax cuts. But they will feel the bite of an expanded sales tax that applies to the cost of auto and household repairs. And they’ll see a state in decline, its public schools strapped, its public employees stiffed for yet another year […]
News and Observer: An NC budget that chooses decline over investment
September 19, 2015
It is too generous to call the new state budget a spending plan. It is a spending reaction. Leaders should have a plan, a goal. This is a budget drawn by ideologues who blinked. Much of what is laid out in the $21.7 billion budget is determined by mandatory responses to growth in education and […]
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: On the roads again
September 18, 2015
“What I describe is generally advocated by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which likes the idea of continuing to base highway money on highway use, which seems fair and appropriate.” Read more
Salisbury Post: Talkback: What online readers say about …
September 18, 2015
If allowed to work in the country legally, their state and local tax contributions will increase significantly. The increase could cover the current deficit between service costs and revenues collected through their payroll, sales, excise, and property taxes. Undocumented immigrants also contribute to Social Security which is an earned benefit. “According to an April […]
WUNC: Under New Tax Plan, Timing Belt Change Would Cost $30 More On This Volkswagen Jetta
September 18, 2015
“Sen. Josh Stein, a Democrat from Wake County, disagrees. He says the plan would favor high-wage earners because everyone pays the same income tax—instead of lower rates for people who make less money, as was the case in previous North Carolina tax models—and new consumer service taxes take up a bigger proportion of the […]
Bloomberg BNA: Individual Income Tax Insights: Fifty States of Rates – State Tax Systems Don’t Play Fair
September 15, 2015
“All state tax systems are inherently unfair, at least that is the verdict issued by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). ITEP’s 2015 Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All Fifty States report analyzed state and local tax systems to assess the fairness with which each system is designed […]
Mother Jones: John Kasich Was Against Poor People Before He Was for Them
September 15, 2015
“Once again, the budget brought tax savings for the wealthy, and higher taxes for those who can least afford them. An analysis of the 2015 budget by the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy found that about half the benefit of the tax cuts, totaling about $1 billion, would go into the pockets of the […]
Lexington Herald-Leader: Despite stark financial outlook, Kentucky gubernatorial candidates say little about taxes
September 15, 2015
“According to the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Kentucky’s richest 1 percent of families — those earning at least $330,000 a year — already have the lowest overall state and local tax burden, at 6 percent of income, compared to 9 percent for the poorest one-fifth of Kentucky families.”
The Washington Times: U.S. companies given Export-Import Bank subsidies keep profits offshore, skirt taxes
September 15, 2015
“Matt Gardner, the executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said companies that are both benefiting from federally backed loans and who are keeping some of their profits offshore are shortchanging U.S. taxpayers. “It’s pretty ludicrous that the federal government would subsidize any company engaging in this kind of tax avoidance,” he […]
St. Louis Post Dispatch: Nicklaus: Tax credit would be better for workers than minimum wage hike
September 15, 2015
“The federal credit has become one of the government’s most powerful antipoverty tools. It also improves progressivity, a virtue that’s lacking in many state tax systems, including Missouri’s. “It can help offset the really regressive taxes, like sales taxes and excise taxes, which hit low- and middle-income families hardest,” says Meg Wiehe, state tax policy […]
New York Daily News: #Undocumoney Campaign to Show How Much Undocumented Immigrants Contribute to U.S Economy
September 10, 2015
“According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the over 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States collectively paid $11.84 billion in state and local taxes in 2012.” Read more
Reuters: Tax Exemption May Be Key to Move of Keurig’s Coffee Buying to Switzerland
September 8, 2015
“The fact that Keurig is doing this is pretty clearly due to a loophole in the law that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense,” said Matt Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C. think tank. Read more
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