Amy Hanauer
Amy Hanauer joined ITEP in 2020, bringing nearly 30 years of experience working to create economic policy that advances social justice. As executive director of both ITEP and Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ), Amy provides vision and leadership to promote fair and equitable state and national tax policy.
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media mention April 8, 2025 WGBH Boston: Immigrant Taxpayers Hesitate, Delay Filing Amid Fears of Deportation
Elgardo, an undocumented immigrant in Boston, has paid taxes like clockwork for the past seven years with an individual taxpayer identification number, or ITIN. The nine-digit tax processing number is… -
media mention March 17, 2025 CNN Video: ITEP’s Amy Hanauer on How DOGE’s Attack on the IRS Will Hurt Ordinary Taxpayers
ITEP Executive Director Amy Hanauer appeared on CNN on March 17, 2025 to discuss the ongoing attack by DOGE and Congress on the IRS. -
media mention October 17, 2024 Audio: ITEP’s Amy Hanauer Talks Presidential Tax Plans on NerdWallet Podcast
Paycheck Politics: What Presidential Tax Plans May Mean for Your Wallet. Listen here. -
media mention October 1, 2024 NerdWallet: What Trump and Harris Have in Store for Your Taxes
As far as how the candidates are tackling all aspects of tax code, Amy Hanauer, executive director of the left-leaning think tank Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, says, “The big picture is the Harris approach raises more revenue; it raises it primarily from the wealthiest and corporations. The Trump approach puts us deeper in debt and gives a lot more away to wealthy people and corporations. Both of them, I think, have some proposals that would help middle class families on the tax side. But the Harris approach gives us more revenue to pay for things that middle class families might want.”
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media mention June 21, 2024 New York Times: Democrats’ Dream of a Wealth Tax Is Alive. For Now.
For years, liberal Democrats have agitated for the United States to tax wealth, not just income, as a way to ensure that rich Americans who derive wealth from real estate, stocks, bonds and other assets were paying more in taxes. On Thursday, that dream survived a Supreme Court scare, but just barely.
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media mention March 13, 2024 The Nation: Biden Should Channel His Inner FDR and Soak the Rich
There’s no risk and everything to gain politically. According to a Navigator Research poll from last month, 79 percent of registered voters favor higher taxes on billionaires and corporations. Only 16 percent are opposed. Democrats favor wealth taxes on billionaires by a 94-2 margin, independents by a 78-15 margin, Republicans by a 63-30 margin.
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media mention September 14, 2023 Video: ITEP’s Amy Hanauer Talks Poverty and the Child Tax Credit on the Rick Smith Show
This week the Census Bureau released new numbers showing that in 2022 the U.S. lost the dramatic gains made against child poverty in 2021, in large part due to the lapsed Child Tax Credit expansion.
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media mention July 17, 2023 Video: ITEP Executive Director Amy Hanauer Featured on The Young Turks Segment on Social Security
This Young Turks segment on Senator Ron Johnson’s comments on Social Security features his exchange with ITEP Executive Director Amy Hanauer as well as ITEP data.
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media mention June 19, 2023 Insider: The IRS Could Recover $12 for Every $1 Spent on Scrutinizing the Ultra-Wealthy’s Taxes
It turns out that scrutinizing the rich’s taxes pays off. A new paper from economists at the Department of Treasury, Harvard University, and the University of Sydney looks at the return on… -
media mention June 15, 2023 Video: ITEP’s Amy Hanauer Talks Proposed GOP Tax Cuts on Scripps New Live
ITEP Executive Director Amy Hanauer joined Scripps News Live to talk about the trio of tax bills that House Republicans are moving through committee this week, and explain how they would disproportionately help the wealthiest Americans and foreign investors.
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media mention June 9, 2023 Forbes: House Proposal Would Restore Expanded And Improved Monthly Child Tax Credits
A group of U.S. Representatives has introduced the American Family Act, legislation that would make the previously expanded and improved monthly child tax credit permanent. Read more. -
media mention June 6, 2023 Deseret News: Working Class Voters Want Politicians Who Will Focus on the Economy
The most important issue facing the U.S. today is still inflation, according to a new national poll, and this sentiment is being driven by Americans who identify as working and… -
media mention May 30, 2023 KALW’s Your Call: Debt Ceiling Agreement Targets the Poor While Protecting the Wealthy
ITEP Executive Director Amy Hanauer appeared on “Your Call” discussing the debt ceiling agreement. Listen here. -
media mention March 10, 2023 Vox: Biden’s Plan to Tax the Rich, Explained
Billionaires in the US pay a tiny proportion of the wealth they accrue in taxes compared to the cut ordinary Americans pay from their wages. Now, President Joe Biden wants that to… -
media mention February 24, 2023 Washington Journal: Amy Hanauer on Federal Tax Policy and Revenue Collection
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media mention January 27, 2023 Center for Public Integrity: How Will a Divided Government Affect Taxes?
House Republicans want tax changes that experts say would increase inequality and aren’t likely to pass the Senate. In a gridlocked federal landscape, states may hold the key. Read more. -
media mention January 10, 2023 Newsweek: Wealthy Tax Cheats Set To Benefit From Republicans’ Defunding of IRS
Now that Kevin McCarthy has finally been elected House speaker, and a new congressional term sworn in, the GOP has already voted on one of its key promises made during… -
media mention January 3, 2023 The Hill: Trump Tax Returns Raise Alarms About Fairness of US Tax Code
A preliminary review of the thousands of pages of Donald Trump’s tax returns released by a key congressional committee on Friday confirms that the former president was using business losses in… -
media mention November 2, 2022 Washington Post: Tax-cut Guru Still Says He’s Right About Trump, Truss and Trickle-down
The mess in England doesn’t mean he’s wrong. Arthur Laffer, the chief cheerleader for supply-side economics since the days of Ronald Reagan, wants to make that clear. Read more. -
media mention October 21, 2022 New York Times: She’s Inheriting Millions of Euros. She Wants Her Wealth Taxed Away.
By the time her extraordinarily wealthy grandmother died last month, Marlene Engelhorn already knew who she wanted to be the ultimate beneficiary of the enormous inheritance coming her way: the… -
media mention October 16, 2022 Convergence: People-Side Economics: Steps to Tax Justice and a Green Economy
Gloom shrouds the news on the economy. Workers get blamed for inflation and the common solutions on offer bring more pain. But when we center the interests of workers and… -
media mention August 14, 2022 NBC: Right-Wing Outcry Over IRS Funding Builds as Agency Workers Describe Shortages of Staff and Printer Paper
Inside the Internal Revenue Service, which is on the brink of a major funding infusion that Democrats and agency workers say is badly needed to boost efficiency and revenues, staffers… -
media mention August 14, 2022 Common Dreams: ‘Biggest Win for Tax Fairness’ in Decades: Progressives Cheer Reforms in IRA, Demand More
Following House Democrats’ passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on Friday, progressives applauded the most significant changes to the federal tax code since 2017, when Republicans’ highly regressive and deeply unpopular Tax Cuts… -
media mention August 11, 2022 Time: Some of America’s Largest Corporations Pay Zero Taxes. Here’s How Congressional Democrats Aim to Change That
Progressive Democrats have been grousing for what seems like eons about the fact that some of the nation’s wealthiest corporations avoid paying their fair share in taxes. This weekend, the… -
media mention August 11, 2022 U.S. News: What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for You
The Inflation Reduction Act requires certain large corporations to pay a minimum income tax of 15% and a 1% tax on stock buybacks. The bill also allocates an additional $80…