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blog
May 9, 2024
Iowa Flat Tax Shows Why Such Policies Are a Problem Everywhere
As Iowa lawmakers change the state’s graduated personal income tax to a single flat rate, they are designing a state tax code where the rich will pay a lower rate overall than families with modest means.
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blog
May 2, 2024
State Rundown 5/2: Vetoes and New Major Tax Proposals
This week, many states took steps toward enacting tax cuts…
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report
May 2, 2024
Corporate Taxes Before and After the Trump Tax Law
The Trump tax law slashed taxes for America’s largest, consistently profitable corporations. These companies saw their effective tax rates fall from an average of 22.0 percent to an average of 12.8 percent after the Trump tax law went into effect in 2018.
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blog
April 26, 2024
ITEP Comment on Proposed IRS Rule REG-123376-22
Increased information transfer from the IRS would improve the quality of data at the Census Bureau and expand opportunities for tax policy research. This is critical for researchers who rely on Census Bureau data and products to fill the informational gaps present in tax data.
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blog
April 24, 2024
State Rundown 4/24: It’s Crunch Time
Many state legislative sessions are wrapping up…
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blog
April 24, 2024
Tax History Matters: A Q&A with Professor Andrew Kahrl, Author of ‘The Black Tax’
In his new book, The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America, Professor Andrew Kahrl walks readers through the history of the property tax system and its structural defects that have led to widespread discrimination against Black Americans.
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blog
April 22, 2024
TurboTax Maker Puts a Pink Spin on Exploitative Financial Products
This op-ed originally appeared in MSNBC Tax preparation behemoth Intuit (maker of TurboTax) recently unveiled a new campaign branding itself as a feminist company. “When it… -
blog
April 17, 2024
State Rundown 4/17: Tax Cut Proposals and the Consequences of Bad Tax Cuts
Happy (belated) Tax Day!
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blog
April 17, 2024
The Case for More Progressive State and Local Tax Systems, in Charts
In a new chart book, Fairness Matters, we further explore our Who Pays? data with new graphics that reinforce the findings in the main report and demonstrate how state-level tax decisions shape economic divides for better and worse.
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brief
April 16, 2024
Is California Really a High-Tax State?
Key Findings For families of modest means, California is not a high-tax state. California taxes are close to the national average for families in the…
