Select Media Mentions
Honolulu Civic Beat: A Progressive Legislative Lament
May 18, 2015
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report of 2015 notes that Hawaii is the state with the second highest percent of its taxes paid by the bottom fifth as we tax them at a rate of 13.4 percent. The top fifth of our population only pay about 8 percent of their income in taxes. […]
Kearny Hub: Static Gas Tax Rate Curbs Nebraska’s Buying Power
May 18, 2015
“It’s an inevitable fact that if gas tax rates are not updated from time to time, the tax is not going to keep pace with construction costs,” said Carl Davis of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a think tank in Washington. However, due to the difficulty of mustering the votes to raise a […]
The Birmingham News: The Easiest Budget Fix? Make the Rich Pay Taxes Like the Poor
May 18, 2015
The Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy calculated what Alabamians pay toward those three taxes and broke them down by what are called quintiles – 20 percent chunks of the population. The first three of those quintiles – 60 percent of the population – pay about 10 percent of their family income in state and […]
Gannett: The Fair Tax Is Anything But Fair
May 18, 2015
According to the authoritative Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, it would mean an average $225,000 a year tax cut for the top 1 percent, and a net increase of about $3,200 for eight out of every 10 taxpayers. There’s nothing fair about that. Read more
The News&Observer: NC Forgoes a Tax Windfall
May 18, 2015
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit research group that focuses on tax fairness, analyzed that shift. Its findings have often been misconstrued to say that 80 percent of North Carolina taxpayers ended up paying more after the tax changes. Instead, the institute found that in 2014 – allowing for the expiration of […]
The Press Democrat: The Five Biggest Myths about Measure A
May 18, 2015
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the gas tax has lost “28 percent of its value since 1997” as costs of highway construction and road repair work have climbed. Our infrastructure is a mess because of it. Read more
PolitiFact: Fair Tax Claim Ignores Contradictory Economic Models
May 18, 2015
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimated the sales tax would need to be 45 percent to be revenue neutral, as the proposal pledges, and also account for tax cheats. The rate matters when deciding if the proposal will do as Perdue suggests and boost economic activity. Read more
Law 360: Marijuana Legalization Accompanied By Tax Hurdles: Report
May 11, 2015
tates are gradually legalizing recreational and medical marijuana and expecting tax windfalls in the process, but the world of marijuana taxation is fraught with complexities that states must consider in advance, according to a report released Wednesday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Read more
The Ashville Citizens Times: Renewed Attacks on Renewable Energy in Raleigh
May 11, 2015
Okay. Let’s talk about fairness and competition. From 2008 to 2012 Duke Energy paid no federal income tax though making more than $9 billion in profits, according to a report from Citizens for Tax Justice, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the North Carolina Budget and Tax Center. In fact, the utility got […]
The Enterprise: Momentum Grows for Doubling the EITC
May 11, 2015
Among the states that offer the credit, the average value of the credit is 16 percent of the federal Earned income Tax Credit, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Seven states offer state credits worth more than 25 percent of the federal credit. Read more
Stateline: Illinois “mixed” on taxes for seniors; Iowa “not tax friendly”
May 11, 2015
Despite the trend, Meg Wiehe, state tax policy director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which surveyed senior tax breaks, said all of the efforts to have “blanket state tax preferences for elderly taxpayers is . a very ill-advised policy.” She also pointed out that states which shield retirement income – Social Security […]
San Antonio Express News: Real Question Is Whether to Cut Any Tax
May 6, 2015
But fairness hasn’t been Texas’ strong suit. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released its annual analysis of the states’ tax systems in January. Texas is in the top 10 most regressive, behind Washington state and Florida. A regressive tax is one that unduly burdens those least able to pay, while the wealthy pay […]
Las Vegas Sun: How Much Taxes Do Undocumented Immigrants Pay?
May 6, 2015
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank, studied how much undocumented immigrants contribute to state and local coffers. Researchers examined figures from 2012. Read more
The Columbus Dispatch: Group Again Highlights That GOP Tax Plan Benefits the Wealthy
May 6, 2015
Calling it a “gift to Ohio’s wealthiest,” liberal-leaning Policy Matters released an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy of the tax plan that passed the House last month. It found that the top 1 percent of Ohio earners would save nearly $3,600 on average, while the bottom 80 percent of Ohio taxpayers, […]
Forbes: Immigrants Are Good for Us
May 6, 2015
A terrific report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) says that immigrants who entered the country illegally paid about $12 billion in state and local taxes in 2012. The revenue per state, of course, varies. ITEP found that these immigrants paid about $3 million in Montana (where few live), but over $3.2 billion in […]
The Montgomery Advertiser: Flat Tax Flawed Approach That Pinches the Poor
May 6, 2015
ur state’s place in that ranking would be secured forever under Hightower’s bill, which effectively eliminates any threshold for income tax liability. Put simply, if you have any earnings at all, you’d be subject to the income tax. Who benefits from that? Certainly not lower-income Alabamians. More than half of Alabama families earning less than […]
The Chicago Sun-Times: Reform Illinois’s Tax Code
May 6, 2015
Illinois citizens are not all that prosperous, either. According to the 2013 census, Illinois per capita income is a mere $29,666 prompting the question, “Just where is the average Illinois taxpayer supposed to get the money to pay those prospective tax increases, anyway?” According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), Illinois ranks 5th highest […]
The Portland Press Herald: LePage, Republicans Shift Tactics on Eliminating Maine’s Income Tax
May 6, 2015
Democrats are claiming that their plan is geared more toward middle-income Mainers. An analysis by the Maine Center for Economic Policy, a left-leaning policy group, and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, found that the Democratic plan would reduce taxes for the bottom 95 percent of Maine taxpayers. It also […]
The State Journal Register: Illinois Can Choose Revenue over Cuts
May 6, 2015
The people who will most bear the consequences of Rauner’s proposed cuts are those who can least afford to. Children, college students, seniors, the poor, people with disabilities, people with mental illness — all would be hard hit. Meanwhile, the top 1 percent of taxpayers in Illinois (average income: $1.9 million) will pay on about $18,000 less in state […]
Huffington Post: GOP Governors’ Proposals Hit Poor Harder
May 6, 2015
Every state already relies on a regressive tax system, although some states depend on sales and excise taxes more than others, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a liberal think tank. A 2015 ITEP study found that the effective state and local tax rate burden was 10.9 percent of income for those […]
Portland Press Herald: Maine Democrats Tout Tax Plan and Middle-Class Economics
May 4, 2015
Democrats have also touted an analysis by the Maine Center for Economic Policy, a left-leaning policy group, and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, that compares their tax plan with the governor’s. Read more
The Bond Buyer: LSU Bond Deal Was Victim of State’s Woes
May 1, 2015
“The collapse of LSU’s bond offering mirrors a trend we’re seeing across the nation: state leaders are avoiding making tough budget decisions by pushing these decisions down to the local level,” Matt Gardner, Executive Director Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy told The Bond Buyer. “When state lawmakers seek to balance their budgets by cutting […]
Decatur Daily: Concerns raised about flat-tax bill; hearing today
May 1, 2015
Forrister said his group asked the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a liberal non-profit, to examine Hightower’s proposal. “They found that the only income group that would pay more on average would be the bottom 20 percent, those making less than $18,000,” Forrister said. By contrast, the state’s highest earners — the top 1 […]
AL.com: Sen. Bernie Sanders, the latest presidential hopeful, issues dire warning to Alabama
May 1, 2015
“I’m sharing this data with you in the hope you can work with your Congressional delegation and other leaders in your state on behalf of a budget that works for all Americans,” Sanders wrote. The data came from the White House Office of Management and Budget, the Economic Policy Institute and the Institute on Taxation […]
Daily Journal: Indexes unveil winners, losers under tax policy
May 1, 2015
We’re less familiar with a different ranking of state taxes by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. It ranks state tax systems based on their effects on the distribution of income. It doesn’t like Indiana very much. We’re 42nd on the 2015 list. According to the institute, in every state lower-income people pay a […]
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