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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 […]
Marketplace: Tax cuts: Have they benefited Indiana’s economy?
May 11, 2018
As for the potential long-term consequences, the richest Indiana taxpayers will receive the largest average tax cuts in 2027 (with an average cut of $4,840), while taxes would go up slightly for the poorest 20 percent (with an average increase of $160), according to an analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Read more
Working Life Podcast: A shift in the air on tax cuts?; Arizona uprising update; Inequality is worse than you think
May 9, 2018
The teachers’ uprisings around the nation have challenged the bankrupt ideology of supply-side tax cutting—and maybe marks a shift in the public’s view of taxes and public spending. Jonathan Tasini talks about that with Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy. Read more
CNN: North Carolina teachers will be the next to walk out. Here’s what they want
May 8, 2018
An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy finds North Carolina would have $3.5 billion more in annual revenue if lawmakers had not changed the tax system that was in place in 2013. Read more
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: How Seattle’s Amazon avoids paying taxes
May 8, 2018
Amazon effectively paid no U.S. income taxes in 2017, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Meanwhile, the company reported a staggering $1.9 billion in profits in the fourth quarter of 2017. “At a time when states all want to see HQ2 coming to them, but they don’t necessarily have the cash […]
Bloomberg BNA: Federal Tax Law May Spur Business Relocations Among States
May 8, 2018
Such migration concerns are “overblown,” Carl Davis, research director at the liberal-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told Bloomberg Tax. “High-income earners tend to move less often than everyone else because they are already living comfortably,” Davis said. “There is no need for them to uproot their lives in search of a tax savings […]
Washington Post: Iowa Republicans pitch ‘crisis-proof’ tax cuts. Democrats see another Kansas in the making.
May 8, 2018
"The trigger is a politically expedient way for lawmakers to claim they’ve cut your taxes without having to do anything immediately to make up for the consequences of reducing revenue," said Meg Wiehe, of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank.
Quartz: The obscure tax rule that’s stopping US states from paying teachers more
May 5, 2018
When lawmakers do gather enough votes to raise tax revenues, it is usually for “low hanging fruit” like cigarette taxes or a sales tax, said Meg Wielhe, the deputy director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a tax research group. These increases “definitely fall more heavily on low-income families,” she said, which can means […]
Politico: Trump Store Collecting Online Sales Tax after Criticism
May 4, 2018
The research director of the liberal-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Carl Davis, said in a blog post Thursday that “the Trump Organization quietly updated TrumpStore.com’s sales tax information page this week to indicate that the company will now collect sales tax in New York.” Read more
Business Insider: The Trump Org Just Quietly Announced It Is Collecting Sales Tax in a New State
May 4, 2018
New York’s addition to the list of states where TrumpStore.com collects sales tax, which previously included Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia, was first spotted Thursday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan think tank. “Refusing to collect sales tax in New York was a risky move, and it’s not surprising that they’ve reversed course,” […]
Politico Morning Tax: Yeah, That’s a Nexus
May 4, 2018
The Trump Store has started collecting sales tax on online purchases from customers in New York, a state where it most certainly seemed to have the physical presence required for collection — a Manhattan flagship store. The liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy noted that update on the store’s website. In all, the store […]
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