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WBAA: Think Tank Questions Effort to Eliminate Business Personal Property Tax

October 28, 2014

Matt Gardner with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy says property taxes nationwide are increasingly limited to real property. But he says for equipment that has significant value to a business‘s profit-making ability, it makes sense to tax that equipment. “It’s a rough proxy for the benefits you derive from government services,” says Gardner. […]

USA Today: Fact Checking the NC Senate Race

October 16, 2014

Meg Wiehe, state tax policy director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said that, based only on the income tax portion of the changes, about 35% of North Carolinians would see a tax increase, another 16% would see no change, and roughly 49% would get a tax cut. Once you factor in the […]

New York Times: The State-by-State Revival of the Right

October 10, 2014

In an analysis of how the Indiana cuts are distributed by income groups, the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that the bottom 20 percent are getting an average cut of $10, those in the middle are getting $56, while the top 1 percent get $1,181. Read more

Lodi News Sentinel: Middle Class Is Paying for Corporate Tax Breaks

October 10, 2014

Further details of these types of corporate shenanigans can be found in the paper “Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy,” published in February 2014. Read more

Bloomberg BNA: Will Big Brother Soon Track Your Car for Tax Purposes?

October 10, 2014

All states impose some kind of gas tax that generally supports transportation infrastructure, but the taxes and fees that drivers actually pay make up a smaller share of total highway funding than at any point since the Interstate Highway System was created in 1957, according to a May 2014 policy brief by the Institute on […]

Politico: Fact Checking the NC Senate Race

October 10, 2014

  Meg Wiehe, state tax policy director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said that, based only on the income tax portion of the changes, about 35 percent of North Carolinians would see a tax increase, another 16 percent would see no change, and roughly 49 percent would get a tax cut. Once […]

Governing: Will Mass. Repeal Gas Tax Hike?

October 10, 2014

Matthew Gardner, executive director of the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, notes that many states in recent years have gone down the same road as Massachusetts by linking fuel taxes to inflation or prices. “It’s been a very welcome trend in the last few years toward indexing the gas tax for some measure […]

Wisconsin State Journal: Analyses of Tax Mix Proposal Show Bigger Benefit for the Wealthy

October 7, 2014

The liberal Wisconsin Budget Project has released an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) showing how the tax burden would change for different income groups. Under one scenario highlighted in the study as being the most balanced, ITEP projects the top 1 percent of earners would see a 0.6 percent reduction […]

New York Times: Apple’s Irish Luck

October 6, 2014

Here then is one difference between what transpires in the U.S. and what transpires in Europe: The E.U. has rules intended to prevent nations from giving unjustified tax breaks to companies. “In Europe there is now a mechanism to prevent the most harmful abuses” of the tax code, said Matthew Gardner, the executive director of […]

Cronkite News: Unfair Arizona Tax System Unduly Burdens Poor Residents

October 6, 2014

Wallethub said its survey reached 1,050 people across gender, racial, income level and political lines. It compared what they saw as a fair state and local tax system with estimates of average state and local taxes from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Read more

Slate: The Kansas Miracle

October 3, 2014

In reality, however, Kansas’ job growth stagnated in 2012 and income growth fell. Far from a stimulus plan, Brownback’s tax cuts were a massive program of redistribution for the rich. According to a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the bottom 20 percent of Kansas taxpayers saw their tax burden increase by […]

Cleveland Plain Dealer: No-Income Tax States Use Other Taxes to Pay the Bills

October 3, 2014

“Some of these states have natural advantages, or man-made advantages, that most other states don’t have, said Matthew Gardner, the executive director of the nonpartisan Institute of Tax and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C. think tank. Read more

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Axing Ohio’s Income Tax

October 3, 2014

In 2011, the state of Florida spent $8,887 per-pupil, ranking it 38th among the states, according to a report by Governing magazine based on Census data. Ohio ranked 18th that year, spending $11,223 per pupil. That same report showed that Ohio’s graduation rate for all students was nine percentage points higher than Florida. The rate […]

Charlotte Observer: IRS Fights Ingersol-Rand over Offshore Money Routing

September 30, 2014

Ingersoll-Rand’s move to Bermuda helped kick off the first major wave of inversions more than a decade ago, said Rebecca Wilkins, senior counsel with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “It was one of the more publicized cases,” she said. “They didn’t make any bones about what they were doing. They were quite transparent […]

CNBC: Are Tax Holidays the Best Way to Promote Efficient Appliances?

September 30, 2014

And so when these weekends roll around, you either need to have opportune timing in the breakdown of your fridge, for instance, or enough money to afford the purchase of replacing one early. Such a scenario leaves out many who might not have much cash on hand, according to Matt Gardner, executive director of the […]

Forbes: Fairness and the Reality of State Tax Systems

September 30, 2014

The survey was then meshed with some of the good work done by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which has demonstrated the fact that state tax systems are decidedly regressive. Read more

Wall Street Cheat Sheet: 10 States with the Least Fair Tax System

September 30, 2014

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) estimates that the real relationship between income and state and local taxes is negative, the complete opposite of what Americans think is fair. In order to find the most and least fair tax systems in America, WalletHub analyzed and ranked the 50 states based on the fairness […]

Bloomberg BNA: Survey Says Higher Income Households Should Pay More

September 30, 2014

Using data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), WalletHub then compared what Americans think is fair to the structure of state and local tax systems.  ITEP estimates the total state and local tax burden of households at seven different points in the income distributions of each state (e.g., bottom 20 percent or […]

Washington Post: Kansas’s Midterm Election Are a Referendum on Supply-Side Economics

September 30, 2014

By Max Ehrenfraud Brownback has signed major tax breaks into law, reduced state spending and arguably made it harder for people in poverty to receive welfare. He called his initiatives “a real live experiment” in red-state governance, a choice of words he now says he regrets. “I don’t consider this an experiment,” he told The Post recently. “This is […]

WGBH: Undocument and Paying Taxes

September 26, 2014

The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the country is difficult to count accurately, as many of them live in the shadows of our public systems. But according to data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. paid more than one billion dollars in personal income tax in 2010. […]

Brownsville Herald: (Immigrants are) Big Contributors

September 26, 2014

“Immigrants, regardless of their status, pay taxes in the form of property and sales tax, and other state and federal taxes such as the federal income and payroll taxes,” the report states, noting that even unauthorized immigrants pay sales and excise taxes on their purchases and utility payments. It cites an Institute on Taxation and […]

The Tampa Bay Times: How the Greenlight Pinellas Transit Plan Would ffect your wallet

September 22, 2014

With a regressive tax, “the people who do the best are the very best off,” said Matt Gardner, executive director of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington. “It’s pretty clear that low income families are going to see a tax hike under this,” he said. “The real question is which […]

The Columbus Dispatch: John Kasich, Ed FItzgerald Disagree on Tax Policy

September 22, 2014

An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and Policy Matters Ohio, a labor-backed research group, found that when accounting for nearly all tax changes approved in the past two budget bills, about 70 percent of Ohioans will save less than $100 this year. The study found that those with the lowest incomes […]

The Toledo Blade: Unequal and Unbalanced

September 22, 2014

“In Ohio, a separate recent study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reported that the state’s tax changes since 2005 are giving the richest 1 percent of taxpayers — those with average annual incomes of more than $1 million — a typical tax cut of $20,000 a year. That’s a greater tax cut, […]

Knoxville News Sentinel: Moves to Repeal Hall Income Tax Begin

September 22, 2014

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy did an analysis earlier this year that found wealthy residents — income averaging $970,000 per year — would receive “a whopping 63 percent of the benefits” from repeal of the Hall while another 23 percent “would go to the federal government because residents who pay the tax would […]

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