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 May 7, 2016 Salon: The Triumphs and Tribulations of a Progressive Governor
Meg Wiehe, a senior policy analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, produced an analysis of the tax changes for showing that Connecticut’s tax system has become modestly… -
media mention September 19, 2015 News and Observer: An NC budget that chooses decline over investment
It is too generous to call the new state budget a spending plan. It is a spending reaction. Leaders should have a plan, a goal. This is a budget drawn… -
media mention June 15, 2015 The Washington Post: How Kansas Keeps Making Life Harder for the Poor
Poor families in Kansas would pay even more in taxes under a bill the state House passed Friday. Matt Gardner, the executive director of the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and… -
media mention May 29, 2015 Asheville Citizen-Times: Long-term tax shifts may hit rich and poor differently
North Carolina’s sales tax law has loopholes large enough to drive a truck through — or sail a boat, pilot an airplane or guide a train. Or pull a wood… -
media mention May 29, 2015 US News & World Report: The Party of Red Ink
Meg Wiehe, state tax policy director at the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, says Kansas’ tax cuts are “definitely the number-one reason the state faces a big budget… -
media mention May 18, 2015 The News&Observer: NC Forgoes a Tax Windfall
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit research group that focuses on tax fairness, analyzed that shift. Its findings have often been misconstrued to say that 80 percent… -
media mention April 21, 2015 Washington Post: Kansas Lawmakers Want the Poor to Pay for Tax Cuts for the Rich
The Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy’s Meg Wiehe notes that in many states, average incomes have only increased among the richest groups in recent years. As a result, a system of taxation that depends more… -
media mention February 5, 2015 The Kennebec Journal: LePage Following Republican Governors’ National Strategy
Meg Wiehe, state policy director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning organization that evaluates tax reform initiatives, questions whether journalists are making accurate appraisals of Republican… -
media mention January 26, 2015 MSNBC: States See Slump in Lotto Sales (Video)
Meg Wiehe, ITEP state policy director, appeared on Weekends with Alex Witt, to talk about declining lotto sales. Check out the video. -
media mention January 20, 2015 MSNBC: Running out of Options, Brownback Revisits Tax Policy
The Politico report quoted Meg Wiehe, state policy director at the liberal-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, saying, “We’ve seen this exploding budget gap, and this year, after three… -
media mention January 14, 2015 The New York Times: Study Finds Local Taxes Hit Lower Wage Earners Harder
“When it comes to the taxes closest to home, the less you earn, the harder you’re hit. That is the conclusion of an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and…