Select Media Mentions
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
Indianapolis Star: Transportation Funding at a Crossroads in Indiana
September 8, 2015
“Families today are spending a smaller share of their household budgets on gas taxes than they have in about three decades, and they are receiving a lower-quality transportation network in return,” according to a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan group that studies federal, state and local tax policy. Read […]
The Toledo Blade: Labor Pains
September 8, 2015
Deindustrialization in Rust Belt economies such as Toledo have driven these changes, yet they’ve been aggravated by state government’s regressive, anti-tax agenda. The top 1 percent of Ohioans bring home more than $850,000 a year. These households will enjoy an average tax cut of $17,600 under Gov. John Kasich’s new tax plan, while the poorest […]
Journal Courier: Transportation Funding at Crossroads
September 8, 2015
“Families today are spending a smaller share of their household budgets on gas taxes than they have in about three decades, and they are receiving a lower-quality transportation network in return,” according to a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan group that studies federal, state and local tax policy. Read […]
Daily Press: Nation Needs to Talk About Immigration, But Not the Way Donald Trump Insists
September 4, 2015
And just to shoot down one more oft-mentioned canard on this issue: According to a study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, about 8.1 million undocumented immigrants paid an estimated $11.8 billion in state and local taxes in 2012. Read more
Report: Tax Policy Benefits Flow Heavily to Wealthiest Ohioans
August 28, 2015
The windfall for the wealthy results from cuts in state income taxes, the major tax that is based on the ability to pay, while increases in other taxes such as the sales tax fall more heavily on lower- and middle-income Ohioans. Those are the key findings of an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and […]
News and Observer: Unfair ‘Bill of Rights’
August 26, 2015
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, “The personal income tax can be – and usually is – the fairest of the main revenue sources relied on by state and local governments. When properly structured, it insures that wealthier taxpayers pay their fair share, provides lower rates on middle-income families, completely exempts the […]
Newsmax: Pros and Cons of Illegal Immigrants Filing Taxes With IRS
August 25, 2015
Undocumented immigrants paid an estimated $10.6 billion in state and local taxes in 2010, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, CNN reported. Those tax contributions will rise significantly if illegal immigrants are allowed to work in the United States legally, said Matthew Gardner, ITEP’s executive director. Read more
Standard-Times: Undocumented Immigrants’ Economic Impact Unclear in Texas
August 24, 2015
“Meanwhile, about 1.7 million immigrants are unauthorized, according to the center. The report cites the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy as saying that in Texas unauthorized immigrants in 2010 paid more than $1.6 billion in state and local taxes. Immigrants as a whole contributed $65 billion in economic output for the state in wages, […]
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