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Cleveland Plain Dealer: Our Immigrant Neighbors Are Not Violent Criminals to Be Uprooted and Separated from Their Children
June 20, 2018
According to a 2017 study carried out for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C. research organization, undocumented immigrants collectively pay almost $12 billion a year in state and local taxes, approximately 8 percent of their income. To put this in perspective, the institute observes that “the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay […]
NorthJersey.com: NJ Lottery Operator Northstar Wants $97 Million Raise and Less Money for New Jersey
June 15, 2018
In neighboring Pennsylvania, the Legislature in 2014 approved decreasing the minimum profit margin from 27 percent to 25 percent and projected net revenue would increase by $40 million over the following three to four years. Since the change, Pennsylvania’s net revenues decreased cumulatively by $35 million, according to research by the Institute on Taxation and […]
Washington Post: Seattle Council Votes to Repeal Tax to Help Homeless Amid Opposition from Amazon, other Businesses
June 12, 2018
“There’s a bargaining power problem here, and cities are on the wrong side of it,” said Matthew Gardner, a tax policy analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank. “When Amazon decides to be bullies and make this kind of threat, it’s really hard for officials to know how seriously […]
Springfield (Mass) Republican: Tax Breaks That Help Students Attend Private School Could Be Repealed
June 9, 2018
“This is a brand new tax break that was created automatically by an obscure linkage to federal law, and whether lawmakers want to offer it or not is worth discussing,” said Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington-based tax think tank that tends to favor liberal policies. “It’s […]
Politico Morning Tax: More on the Way Out
June 8, 2018
GUILTY OF WANTING TO CHANGE GILTI: House Democrats, led by Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon, have rolled out a bill that would revamp the international system Republicans crafted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. One of the big changes in the proposal: Forcing companies paying the minimum tax on Global Intangible Low Taxed Income […]
The (Maine) Free Press: Where the Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates Should Stand on the Issues
June 7, 2018
In the past several years, the LePage administration and now the Trump administration have been very kind to higher-income earners. In 2011, the governor signed a $400 million tax cut, largely skewed to benefit the wealthiest income earners, which he paid for by cutting tax revenue sharing to municipalities, causing property taxes to rise. Since […]
CNBC: Donate to charitable funds and nab a tax break in these states — for now
June 4, 2018
How the IRS will ultimately proceed remains to be seen, but experts agree that the agency may take a closer look at programs with generous tax credits. “It’s when you get up and above a 70 percent tax credit — that’s when taxpayers start to view these as not being charitable programs at all but […]
Reno News and Review: Tax Hike?
May 31, 2018
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the poorest 20 percent of Nevada families pay 6.1 percent of their income in sales tax. The wealthiest one percent of Nevada families pays six-tenths of one percent. That fund has generated from nine to six million dollars annually. With 20 years of sales tax payments […]
Urban Milwaukee: What’s Wrong with Illinois?
May 30, 2018
Although Illinois is widely viewed as a blue state because of its recent record of supporting Democratic presidential candidates, from a “who pays” angle it looks much more like a red state, collecting a much higher proportion of taxes from low earners than high earners. The next chart, based on data developed by the Institute […]
Politifact: Scott Dawson distorts Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s Grant Funding
May 25, 2018
But Matt Gardner, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said there is a distinction between tax dollars and taxpayer dollars. “User fees are, technically, not ‘tax dollars’ in that they are not the product of our tax system,” Gardner said. “But the broader claim that these are not ‘taxpayer dollars’ doesn’t […]
Reuters: U.S. Treasury Readies Crackdown on SALT Workarounds
May 24, 2018
But the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, or ITEP, warned that narrow action could have unintended consequences for federal charitable donations if the government imposes arbitrary distinctions between different types of organizations. The group said Congress is better positioned to act fairly. “The gifts being made under these schemes are not truly ‘charitable’ […]
New York Times: I.R.S. Warns States Not to Circumvent State and Local Tax Cap
May 24, 2018
Carl Davis, the research director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington, said that Alabama provides a 100 percent state tax credit for taxpayers who donate money to organizations that give children vouchers to attend private school. Under its new law, New York gives an 85 percent state tax credit to residents […]
Washington Post: NJ Democrats Loved the Idea of Taxing the Rich Until They Could Actually Do It
May 24, 2018
A spokesman for Sweeney, the state Senate president, said families earning over $1.1 million in New Jersey already face an average $738 tax hike under the GOP law, citing data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a left-leaning think tank. That number accounts only for the GOP tax law’s changes for households […]
Politico Morning Tax: Is the End Near
May 24, 2018
Along those same lines, some liberals are clearly a bit queasy about the idea of the state SALT maneuvers, given that most of the benefits flow to top earners. But the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy also said it would be “unfair, arbitrary and ineffective” for the federal government to target the blue […]
Washington Times: Treasury Department Warns States over SALT Workarounds
May 24, 2018
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank, issued a new report Wednesday warning the Treasury not to single out the blue states, saying if they’re going to tackle charitable donations they could also target private school voucher programs. “Long before the tax law passed, some states abused the idea of charitable […]
NBC: What Trump’s disclosure of his 500 LLCs can and can’t tell us
May 16, 2018
A 2015 report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan, tax policy think tank, said Delaware’s tax code made it “a magnet for people looking to create anonymous shell companies, which individuals and corporations can use to evade an inestimable amount in federal and foreign taxes.” Read more
San Francisco Chronicle: How Amazon and Entrepreneurs Can Pay Zero Federal Income Tax, and Do So Legally
May 16, 2018
With the recent news that Amazon paid zero federal taxes for 2017, every entrepreneur should be asking, :”How can my company pay no taxes, and legally, too?” According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Amazon “paid no U.S. income taxes on $5.6 billion in domestic profits last year.” But companies in a position […]
Bloomberg: The Kochs Helped Slash State Taxes. Now Teachers Are in the Streets
May 16, 2018
“There’s this promise,” says Meg Wiehe of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “ ‘We’re going to put more money in your pockets. We’re going to let your family decide how to use this money.’ But the trade-off is: Your school is unfunded, your teachers’ pay is frozen, your classrooms are crowded, your textbooks are […]
USA Today: Amazon Tax over Head Tax Foreshadows Battles to Come in other Cities
May 16, 2018
In Washington state, neither state or local government are allowed to tax income. In addition, state law caps real estate tax increases to no more than 1% a year. “It’s a very challenging environment in which to raise revenues. So from that unique perspective, the proposed tax on workers seems like the best available to […]
CNN: North Carolina teachers want better pay and they’re marching to fight for it
May 16, 2018
Mark Jewell, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, has said the state could be spending a lot more on schools if it hadn’t shrunk revenues by lowering corporate and personal income tax rates in the past few years. He points to a 2017 report by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, […]
Seattle Times: Coalition Abandons Initiative Requiring Legislature to ‘Balance’ Washington’s Tax Code
May 15, 2018
It’s no great secret that Washington state has a regressive tax system, meaning people with modest incomes pay a comparatively high share of it in state and local taxes. The poorest fifth pay about 17 percent of their income in state and local taxes, while the wealthiest 1 percent pay 2.4 percent, according to the […]
Seattle Weekly: Seattle City Council Passes Reduced Head Tax
May 14, 2018
This comes on the heels of a 2015 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report that showed Washington has the most regressive tax system in the country because of its high reliance on sales taxes. Read more
News & Observer: Arizona Income Tax story
May 12, 2018
Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said the public could be more likely to support income tax hikes since federal tax debate in the fall. “People understand the consequences,” she said. “They’re starting to connect the dots of what does it mean when there’s less revenue to spend.” The […]
Valdosta Daily Times: T-SPLOST: Good for our community
May 12, 2018
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the fuel tax in Georgia actually increased .3 cents on gasoline and .4 cents on diesel in 2017. The fuel tax is indexed to the consumer price index and is adjusted annually. So basically there was no real increase in revenue to fund additional projects with […]
Associated Press: Arizona Voters May Be Asked Whether They Want to Tax High Earners to Fund Education
May 11, 2018
Ballot initiatives to hike taxes on the rich are rare but not unheard of. A measure in Washington state in 2010 to adopt an income tax for individuals who make more than $200,000 was overwhelmingly voted down. Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said the public could be more […]
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