Meg Wiehe
Meg Wiehe is ITEP’s deputy executive director. She joined ITEP in 2010 after spending several years working on tax policy in her home state of North Carolina. She coordinates ITEP’s federal and state tax policy research and advocacy agenda. Meg works closely with policymakers, legislative staff and state and national organizations to provide guidance and research on policy solutions that will achieve equitable and sustainable federal, state and local tax systems.
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media mention February 26, 2021 WJTV: Experts discuss bill that would eliminate Mississippi’s state income tax
According to data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), the proposal to increase the state’s sales tax rate to 9.5 percent would give Mississippians the highest sales… -
media mention November 12, 2020 Stateline: Budget Holes Loom After Voters Reject Some Tax Hikes
But Meg Wiehe, deputy executive director of the progressive Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said that is an oversimplification. She said wild speculation in opposition ads about what Illinois… -
media mention November 6, 2020 New York Times: Arizona Passes a Ballot Measure to Raise Teacher Pay by Taxing the Wealthy
Prop. 208 passed with 52 percent of voters supporting the measure, The Associated Press reported late Thursday. Under Arizona’s rules for ballot measures, the tax increase needed a simple majority… -
media mention August 20, 2020 Bloomberg: Tax Code Inequities Fuel Call for IRS to Collect Race-Based Data
The structure of the Child Tax Credit, for instance, “leaves behind some of our lowest-income children of color,” because of the way the credit is phased in as earnings increase,… -
media mention July 29, 2020 Bloomberg: States Eye Anti-Poverty Tax Credit to Ease Covid Impact
The various state programs differ widely with the key distinction being refundability. Twenty-three of the 29 EITC states have made their credits refundable—widely considered an important check against regressivity. “Almost… -
media mention July 27, 2020 Politico Morning Tax: Another View
Meg Wiehe of the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy noted that most states, with just a couple of exceptions, have budgets lined up for fiscal 2021 — but… -
media mention July 17, 2020 Bloomberg: Virus Surge Hits Budgets of States Most Vulnerable to Shutdowns
As the two states have each surpassed nearly 600,000 confirmed cases combined, with daily new cases in the tens of thousands, governors in Florida and Texas are considering scaling back… -
media mention April 13, 2020 Bloomberg: 10 Ways States Could Fortify Tax Structures Ahead of Next Crisis
“There is nothing like a crisis to get states thinking about their tax structures and the things they can do to become more sustainable in the long run,” said Meg… -
media mention April 13, 2020 Connecticut Mirror: CT’s unflappable sales tax faces unprecedented threat from coronavirus
“Early indications are that consumers are cutting back or spending much less due to personal economic uncertainty,” analysts for the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy [ITEP] wrote… -
media mention March 27, 2020 Bloomberg: Delayed Tax Filing Could Mean Larger Stimulus Check for Some
For people who were ineligible in 2018 and perhaps took a pay cut or got a divorce that put them under the income thresholds in 2019, “there needs to be… -
media mention March 3, 2020 Connecticut Mirror: After one alarming tax fairness study, CT is wary of launching a second
Gasoline distributors shift the entire cost of Connecticut’s 8.1% wholesale fuel tax onto local filling stations, which then pass it all onto motorists — who also pay a 25-cents-per-gallon retail… -
media mention January 16, 2020 Hartford Business Journal: CT Voices proposes major state tax shift to reverse inequality
And creation of a new Child Tax Credit could provide poor and middle-income residents — even those earning nearly $500,000 per year — as much as $800 to $1,550 on… -
media mention June 14, 2019 Vox, The Weeds: 5 Big Ideas to Use Tax Credits to Fight Poverty
Meg Wiehe from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy explains the leading progressive tax plans in Congress and how they differ from Trump’s tax cuts. Listen to the podcast -
media mention May 6, 2019 Governing: What States Can Do to Drastically Reduce Child Poverty
The following is an excerpt of an op-ed by Meg Wiehe and Christopher Whimer published in Governing: States have been called laboratories of democracy because they often launch some of… -
media mention April 17, 2019 Vox: Democrats don’t have to wait for Trump to leave office to cut child poverty
But these plans have one major obstacle: Donald Trump is president. Policymakers in the Democratic fold have been arguing over what should happen in a hypothetical 2021 in which Trump… -
media mention April 10, 2019 Politifact: Kamala Harris Calls Her LIFT Plan ‘The Most Significant Middle-Class Tax Cut in Generations.’ Is It?
Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, considered a left-of-center think tank, said Harris’ descriptions are “a fair and an accurate portrayal.” Wiehe said it’s… -
media mention February 11, 2019 Newsweek: We Shouldn’t Wait for Washington to Tax the Rich: We Can Begin at the State Level
Following is an excerpt from an op-ed by ITEP deputy director Meg Wiehe published in Newsweek Magazine: The historic role tax and other policies have played in exacerbating the wealth… -
media mention January 28, 2019 Arizona Republic: Fact Check on Immigration
“It sounds extraordinarily high to me,” Meg Wiehe, deputy director at the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy told NBC. Read more -
media mention December 31, 2018 Washington Times: Trump Tax Cut Foiled by State’s Itemized Deduction Rule
Last year, many states opened their legislative sessions at the beginning of January, just after the federal tax law passed in December 2017, leaving them little time to figure out… -
media mention December 22, 2018 NBC News: How Much Does Illegal Immigration Cost America? Not As Much As Trump Claims
“It sounds extraordinarily high to me,” said Meg Wiehe, deputy director at the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). Read more -
media mention November 7, 2018 Washington Post: In blow to liberal efforts, voters across the country reject tax increases. (California is the exception.)
North Carolina voters, for instance, approved a change to their state constitution bringing down the maximum allowable tax rate from 10 percent to 7 percent. That will effectively only spare… -
media mention November 6, 2018 Governing: Voters Lower Cap on Income Tax in North Carolina
Still, many worry that locking down North Carolina’s income tax rates will hamstring future policymakers’ ability to raise revenue. North Carolina is one of a handful of states that has… -
media mention November 6, 2018 Washington Post: Threat of Arizona Tax Measure Brings Together Liberals, Koch Brothers
(Meg Wiehe, a tax specialist at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, argued the sales tax is passed on to the consumers and that these businesses are not “double… -
media mention October 24, 2018 Bloomberg: Kamala Harris Tax Plan Would Cost $2.8 Trillion, Conservative Group Says
ITEP’s Wiehe said the plan is more highly targeted than the 2017 tax law to help low-income workers. The poorest 20 percent would see a $2,100 benefit under the Harris plan, compared with $80 under the GOP plan, she said. About 123 million workers would receive tax breaks under the plan, according to Wiehe.
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media mention October 22, 2018 Christian Science Monitor: A New Candidate Class: Schoolteachers Running For Office
North Carolina, one of six states where teachers held strikes before school let out last spring, “is an example of how lawmakers have prioritized tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy over public services,” says Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Washington, DC-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, and a North Carolina resident. “The big tax-cutting spree started here in 2013, and they’ve continued cutting.”