Matthew Gardner
Matt Gardner is a senior fellow at ITEP where he has worked since 1998. He previously served as ITEP’s executive director from 2006 to 2016. Matt’s work focuses on federal, state and local tax systems, with a particular emphasis on the impact of tax policies on low- and moderate-income taxpayers. He uses ITEP’s microsimulation model to produce economic projections and analyses on the effects of current and proposed federal and state tax and budget policies.
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media mention March 22, 2017 Washington Post: How a GOP tax plan would help Caterpillar after a raid by federal agents
“Caterpillar appears to have elevated international tax avoidance to an art form,” said Matt Gardner, the former director of the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “From that perspective,… -
media mention March 22, 2017 Kansas City Star: Who would argue taxes with H&R Block? This guy, but only a little
Who would argue taxes with H&R Block? Matt Gardner would, but only a little. Gardner was the lead author of a recent study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic… -
media mention March 22, 2017 Palm Beach Post: NextEra Energy disputes report saying it paid no income taxes
The study, The 35 Percent Corporate Tax Myth conducted by the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington, D.C., examined eight years of data on federal income taxes… -
media mention March 13, 2017 CNBC: Tax policy expert: The 35% corporate rate is a myth, so cutting it won’t bring overseas money back
Don’t expect big companies to bring profits back from overseas in response to a U.S. corporate tax cut, said Matthew Gardner of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The… -
media mention March 9, 2017 New York Times: U.S. Corporate Taxes Explained
This New York Times Facebook video features ITEP Senior Fellow Matthew Gardner explaining how profitable Fortune 500 companies exploit loopholes in the tax system to avoid paying the statutory corporate… -
media mention March 9, 2017 The Street: Corporate Tax Cuts Could Add 15% to S&P 500
A new study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) found that 258 consistently-profitable Fortune 500 companies paid an effective federal income tax rate of 21.2% over an… -
media mention March 9, 2017 New York Times: Profitable Companies, No Taxes: Here’s How They Did It
Although the top corporate rate is 35 percent, hardly any company actually pays that. The report, by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning research group in Washington,… -
media mention January 12, 2017 CNN: Trump’s Tangled Web of Businesses
“In fact, as with most businesses, most of Trump’s are registered in Delaware, known for its business-friendly courts and tax policies, but also the lack of disclosure requirements, according to… -
media mention December 20, 2016 Rising Up with Sonali: How Corporations Have Benefitted From Trump’s Tax Law
A new report by the Institute on Taxation Economic Policy examined corporate tax avoidance in the first year that the tax law took effect. The results are the opposite of… -
media mention December 14, 2016 Christian Science Monitor: The peril and promise of Trump’s approach to saving jobs
““There’s a crying need for federal oversight” of state economic incentives, Matthew Gardner, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, writes in an email. “It’s basically a… -
media mention November 23, 2016 The Guardian: Trump’s tax plan: massive cuts for the 1% will usher ‘era of dynastic wealth’
“‘Listening to Trump’s rhetoric, most Americans probably don’t realise at all the impact of Trump’s tax plan,’ Matt Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy… -
media mention November 14, 2016 Mic: Here’s exactly how Donald Trump could hurt the middle class — and how to fight back
“‘There was never any real backing for his argument that he was proposing populist tax reform,’ said Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at nonpartisan nonprofit Institute of Policy and Taxation.… -
media mention November 8, 2016 Forbes: Top 100 S&P Companies Averaged 25% In Income Taxes Actually Paid
“I spoke with two of the four experts that WalletHub consulted. Being accounting professors, they knew that the income tax expense on financial statements and the amount actually paid are… -
media mention October 25, 2016 Observer-Reporter: Tax loopholes
“‘It’s emblematic of the way most people feel about the tax system,’ said Matt Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research… -
media mention October 25, 2016 Bloomberg BNA: Thousands of Subsidiaries Go Missing From Bank SEC Filings
“Matt Gardner, executive director with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told Bloomberg BNA that rules governing materiality ‘are neither stringent nor precise,’ and that banks are realizing they…