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The Toledo Blade: Governor’s Tax Plan Would Wide Inequality

February 27, 2015

Yet an analysis of his tax proposal by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy concludes that the wealthiest 1 percent of Ohio taxpayers — those who made more than $388,000 last year — would get an average tax cut of $11,906 a year from the governor’s plan. By contrast, the lowest 60 percent […]

Associated Press Mississippi: Differing Tax Cut Plans Advance in Mississippi House

February 27, 2015

Opponents warn Gunn’s plan means Mississippi’s remaining taxes would fall more heavily on the poor, as a proportion of income. Projections from the liberal-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy show the lowest-earning 20 percent of taxpayers, making $16,000 or less, would save an average of $13 a year. Those in the top 1 percent […]

Gainesville Times: Study Says Poor Bear the Brunt of Sales Tax Hikes

February 23, 2015

Georgia’s poorest residents will pay a larger share of their income this year in state and local taxes than the wealthiest earners, according to a new study from the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy, a nonprofit Washington think tank. That burden could grow as Republican lawmakers in the state legislature push for lower income […]

Seattle Times: Trickle-Down Theory Makes Less Sense Than Ever

February 23, 2015

Current state income-tax rates are bad for the poor and comparably good for the rich, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. While the rich pay more in dollars than the poor, the rate on the top 1 percent of the richest Americans is 5.4 percent while the rate on the 20 percent […]

Dallas Business Journal: Texas Great for Businesses But Terrible for Most People

February 23, 2015

While many Lone Star State business organizations tout Texas’ tax climate when pitching corporate relocations, those same tax policies are among the worst in the nation when boiled down to the family level, according to a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Texas has the third-most regressive tax structure in the […]

WFSP (Arizona): Arizona’s Unfair Tax System Targets the Poor/Middle Class

February 20, 2015

Arizona’s local and state tax system targets the middle class, and the poorest people in the state pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than the richest people do, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. In fact, the Tax Inequality Index, released in January 2015, ranks Arizona’s local and state […]

New Jersey Spotlight: NJ Needs to Do the Right Thing–Raise Taxes

February 20, 2015

Of course, New Jersey’s middle class and working poor are already taxed at substantial rates. However, according to a recent study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the top one percent of families in earnings pay a state and local tax rate that is 3.6 percentage points lower than families in the bottom […]

San Francisco Chronicle: Tax Fairness Could Boost Resources for Roads, Schools Pensions

February 20, 2015

Last month, the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that the poorest 20 percent of households pay on average more than twice the effective state and local tax rate (10.9 percent) as the richest 1 percent of taxpayers (5.4 percent). That preceded the new report from the left-leaning groups Good Jobs First and […]

Watchdog.org: States Don’t Want Undocument Immigrants, But Could They Need Them

February 20, 2015

A 2013 study conducted by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that allowing illegal immigrants the legal opportunity to work would actually increase state and local tax revenues by over $2 billion, added to the already $10.6 billion in revenues they contributed in 2010. For many states facing the danger of tax fatigue, […]

The Toledo Blade: The Governor’s Tax Proposal Would Harm Most Ohioans

February 20, 2015

According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, taxpayers in the top 1 percent of earners would enjoy an average income tax reduction of more than $13,000, and earners in the next 4 percent would get an average reduction of $1,395. By contrast, taxpayers in the bottom 20 percent would […]

Tribune News Service: Some Governors Seek to Cut Taxes as Potholes Deepend

February 20, 2015

Current state income tax rates are bad for the poor and comparably good for the rich, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. While the rich pay more in dollars than the poor, the rate on the top one percent of the richest Americans is 5.4 percent while the rate on the 20 […]

Culture Map Houston: Texas Tax Myths Shattered

February 20, 2015

If you’re living in Texas and don’t fall within the wealthiest one percent of residents, chances are you’re paying some of the highest tax rates in the nation. According to “Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States,” a report recently released by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy […]

The Christian Science Monitor: Coming This Tax Season–Tax Laws Favoring the Rich

February 18, 2015

“The vast majority of states allow their very best-off residents to pay much lower effective tax rates than their middle- and low-income families must pay,” concludes the recent report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a left-leaning research group. The organization argues that it’s unfair for wealthy residents of a state to […]

The Times Daily: Tax Incomes Not Goods and Services

February 18, 2015

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy determined that while the lowest 20 percent of earners pay more than 10 percent of their income in state and local taxes, the top 1 percent pays closer to 5 percent. While it’s true that a wealthy person pays more, by total, than a poor person and tax […]

Utah Public Radio: Loss of Oil Revenue Causes State Funding Hole

February 18, 2015

According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, around the country, the average state’s gas tax rate has effectively fallen by 20 percent since the last raise. States with a fixed-rate tax, such as Utah, saw the value of their gas tax drop even further. Read more

The Frederick (Md.) News Post: Wrong on State of MD

February 18, 2015

Even more significantly, the wealthiest residents (the “job creators”) are staying put: a study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy concluded that there has not been any exodus of millionaire Marylanders at all. Read more

The Kansas City Star: American Tax Policy Has 50 Shades of Gray

February 18, 2015

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy recently examined state and local tax policy and found Kansas has the ninth-most “unfair” tax system in the nation. A Kansan earning $47,700 a year — smack dab in the middle of all earners — pays 9.5 percent of his or her income in state and local taxes. […]

Park Forest eNews: GOP Lawmakers Push Millionaire-Friendly Tax Schemes

February 18, 2015

The Keystone/Good Jobs study comes on the heels of report by the non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which said that states’ growing reliance on consumptive taxes contributes to a “fundamentally unfair” tax system, in which lower- and middle-income households pay a greater percentage of their income. Read more

The Cinncinati Post: Top 1% Would Save Most Under Kasich Plan

February 18, 2015

Those were the findings of a just-released report by Policy Matters Ohio and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (see http://www.policymattersohio.org/kasich-tax-proposal-feb2015). It also found that even excluding changes in tobacco taxes in Kasich’s proposal, taxpayers making less than $37,000 a year – those in the bottom two-fifths of the income spectrum – on average […]

USA Today: States with the Worst Taxes on Average Earners

February 18, 2015

When looking at taxes paid as a share of the income earned, all states have a regressive tax system, which means poorer residents are taxed more than the wealthiest ones. The difference in effective tax rates between income groups, however, varies widely between states. According to “Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems […]

Detroit Free Press: Time to Talk Tax Equality in Michigan

February 18, 2015

Michigan ranks 29th in personal tax equality and 48th in the percentage of tax revenue contributed by businesses, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the House Fiscal Agency. Why is it that an impoverished family living in Flint making $10,000 a year and a working-class family in Howell making $50,000 both […]

The Economic Populist: Feed the Rich and Starve the Poor

February 18, 2015

As it is now, the poor already pay more than the rich in taxes — that’s to say, as a percentage of their income. According to another recent report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, in nearly every state, low- and middle-income families pay a bigger share of their income in state and […]

The Hill: The Transportation Moment

February 18, 2015

In fact, the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy, claims that as many as 12 states could pass gas tax increases this year. Taken in sum, there is a general sense that change is coming. It may be top-down, and put hundreds of billions of new dollars on the table. It may be a more […]

The Toledo Blade: Governor’s Reform Plan Draws Fire from the Left, Right

February 18, 2015

An evaluation of the proposal by the Washington-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, requested by Policy Matters, suggests the top 1 percent of Ohio earners, those making $388,000 or more, will see an average tax cut of $11,906. Those earning less than $58,000 a year would see a net hike of $116 on average, […]

The New Republic: Brownback’s Right-Wing Experiment is Bankrupting Kansas

February 18, 2015

There’s a much better way for Kansas to fulfill its constitutional duties and avoid these yearly budget shortfalls: give up on its failed tax cuts and raise revenue. And that revenue should come from the richest Kansans. Between 1979 and 2012, the top 1 percent of Kansans has nearly doubled its share of income, from […]

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