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MLive Media Group: You ask, we answer: Proposal 1, regressive taxes and electric vehicle fees
April 21, 2015
Sales taxes, which would increase under Proposal 1, are considered “regressive” because they can disproportionally affect low-income workers, who tend to spend a larger portion of their earnings on taxable goods than wealthier residents. The Institute for Tax and Economic Policy, a left-leaning research group, currently ranks Michigan in the middle of the pack for […]
Lansing State Journal: Tax proposal will cost some $500 per household
April 21, 2015
The average tax hike for the middle fifth of Michigan households — those making $40,000 to $64,000 a year — would be $267, or $22 a month, according to an analysis by the Washington-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy for the Michigan League for Public Policy, an advocacy group in Lansing focused on poverty. […]
The Spokesman-Review: Last Idaho Gas Tax Hike? 1995
April 21, 2015
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy notes Idaho is one of 22 states that have gone more than a decade without raising its gas tax. Idaho, which last raised the tax in 1995, isn’t even in the top ten in length of time since raising the tax. Alaska has gone almost 50 years, and […]
KHON2: Hawaii resident’s tax burden one of the worst in the US
April 21, 2015
The Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy, or ITEP, found in its latest report that many taxes — including payroll taxes, sales taxes, and some state and local taxes — are regressive, which means they take more money out of the pockets of Americans in the lower- and middle-income brackets than from wealthier families. Click […]
Honolulu Civil Beat: Is This Really Fair Taxation?
April 21, 2015
The bill’s preamble language, which is supposed to give the reader some idea of what is motivating the law change proposal, states: According to the study “Who Pays: A Distribution Analysis of Tax Systems in All 50 States, Fifth Edition” (Institute of Taxation & Economic Policy, January 2015), Hawaii households with income in the lowest […]
Governing: This Week in Public Finance
April 21, 2015
A new study has found that granting undocumented immigrants’ legal status in the United States could increase state and local tax collections by a total of more than $2 billion a year. The April 16 report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy noted that the 11.4 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the […]
El Universal: Immigrants’ Tax Contributions Would Increase Under Obama’s Executive Actions
April 21, 2015
A new study titled, Undocumented Immigrants’ State and Local Tax Contributions, conducted by the U.S. Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) shows that undocumented immigrants’ tax contributions would increase significantly under the Obama Administration’s executive actions and even more substantially under comprehensive immigration reform granting all undocumented immigrants lawful permanent residence. The 11.4 million undocumented […]
Washington Post: Kansas Lawmakers Want the Poor to Pay for Tax Cuts for the Rich
April 21, 2015
The Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy’s Meg Wiehe notes that in many states, average incomes have only increased among the richest groups in recent years. As a result, a system of taxation that depends more on the economic fortunes of the poor and the middle class might not produce increasing revenue in the future to meet the needs of growing […]
The Star-Ledger: How Much do N.J.’s Unauthorized Immigrants Pay in Taxes?
April 20, 2015
Immigrants living in New Jersey illegally pay about $613 million a year in state and local taxes and could pay much more under proposed immigration reforms, according to a new report. The study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-partisan research group in Washington, D.C., analyzed the estimated number of unauthorized immigrants […]
NY Daily News: Corporate giants often get huge tax breaks, while poor, undocumented immigrants have paid billions in state taxes
April 20, 2015
Yes, the unauthorized immigrant population, among the poorest and most vulnerable in New York State, does its part when it comes to taxes, according to a report by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy (itepnet.org), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that works on federal, state and local tax policy issues. The report, that covers […]
The Washington Post: Breaking Down the $11.8B Illegal Immigrants Pay in Taxes
April 20, 2015
Here’s a talking point for Democrats: President Obama’s executive actions on immigration will generate an extra $845 million in taxes annually from immigrants living here illegally. But that’s just a drop in the bucket compared with the $11.8 billion they already pay. Those estimates come from a new report by the well-regarded Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a […]
The Salt Lake Tribune: Utah Could Get Cash from Obama Immigration Orders
April 20, 2015
Utah could collect an extra $10.9 million a year in state and local tax revenue if President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration proceed. And Utah could receive about twice that amount — an extra $22.6 million annually — if Congress gave all undocumented immigrants in the state a path to citizenship through immigration reform. […]
The Atlanta Journal Constitution: Deportation Deferral Could Boost Georgia Tax Revenue
April 20, 2015
eorgia would see a nearly $40 million increase in local and state tax revenues if President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration are allowed to go forward, according to a new report released Thursday. Nationally, the increase would total nearly $845 million, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report, which is based […]
Law 360: Undocumented Workers Can Add $2.2B in Taxes, Report Says
April 20, 2015
States and localities across the country would reap an estimated $2.2 billion per year in taxes if the 11.4 million undocumented immigrants living in the country were granted lawful permanent residence, according to an Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report Wednesday. Meanwhile, the 5.2 million undocumented immigrants who would qualify for the deferred deportation […]
Pacific Business News: Hawaii’s Undocumented Immigrants Paid More than $31M in Taxes
April 20, 2015
Hawaii’s undocumented immigrants paid $31.17 million in state and local taxes in 2012, according to a new study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. With immigration reform, those payments would increase by 10 percent, the report predicted. Included in the study were sales, excise, personal and property taxes. Read more
The Fiscal Times: Study Finds Illegal Immigrants Pay $11.8B in Taxes
April 20, 2015
The 50-state analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released on Thursday found that roughly 8.1 million of 11.4 million undocumented immigrants who work paid more than $11.8 billion in state and local taxes in 2012, even while they were living illegally in the country. The group’s analysis estimated that illegal immigrants’ combined […]
International Business Times UK: Legalisation of Undocumented Would Increase Tax Contribution by £1.47b a Year
April 20, 2015
Undocumented immigrants would contribute billions of dollars in tax contributions if they were granted a pathway to legal permanent residence, a new report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy revealed. “The reality is the 11.4m undocumented immigrants living in the United States pay billions of dollars in local, state and federal taxes, and their […]
Maui Now: Tax Reform and Executive Action Would Increase Immigrants Contributions
April 20, 2015
In a new study, “Undocumented Immigrants’ State and Local Tax Contributions” by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, it was found that undocumented immigrants’ tax contributions would increase significantly under the Obama administration’s executive actions and even more substantially under comprehensive immigration reform. Read more
The Inquisitor: Illegal Immigrants Pay $11.8B in Taxes
April 20, 2015
Released on Thursday, the study is the work of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a research organization that is both non-profit and non-partisan. Their findings reveal that around 8.1 million undocumented, illegal immigrants were responsible for paying $11.8 billion in state and local taxes over the course of 2012. As the Fiscal Times […]
KRGV (Texas): Executive Action Would Increase Tax Contributions
April 20, 2015
“According to the U.S. Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the 11.4 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S. paid $11.84 billion in state and local taxes in 2012. ITEP’s analysis showed another bump of $845 million under the full implementation of executive actions in 2012 and 2014. The migration policy institute said over […]
Hutchinson News: Tax Poor
April 20, 2015
A new report from the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy shows that in Kansas families who make less than $20,000 a year pay about 11.1 percent of their pay in state and local taxes. Those on the other end of the income scales? The report found that families with incomes above $439,000 – […]
Latin Post: All U.S. Immigrants Could Contribute $2.2B a Year
April 20, 2015
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization about tax policy issues, found that if all 11.4 million undocumented immigrants received lawful permanent residency in the U.S., then state and local tax contributions would increase by approximately $2.2 billion per year. Based on 2012 data, ITEP stated undocumented immigrants have […]
The Washington Post: Varied and Sometimes Unfair State Taxes
April 15, 2015
States favor their highest earners when it comes to taxation, according to a January report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. As we reported then, the bottom fifth of earners give up nearly twice as large a share of their incomes in state and local taxes as the top 1 percent. And that skewed reliance on the poor […]
The Montgomery Advertiser: Ending Federal Tax Deduction
April 15, 2015
The lowest-earning 20 percent of residents shell out approximately 10.2 percent of their annual income on state and local taxes, for example, while top earners pay only 3.8 percent, according to the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy. One sensible way for the Legislature to address the budget gap without doing further harm to the […]
Keene Sentinel: On Tax Day, a Look at New Hampshire’s Budget Battle
April 15, 2015
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, “On average, poor homeowners and renters pay more of their incomes in property taxes than do any other income group — and the wealthiest taxpayers pay the least.” The institute issues a report every few years noting the effects of state and local tax policies on […]
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