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Policy Matters Ohio: Tax Cuts Help Create Ohio’s Revenue Crunch

January 25, 2017

In 2015, the General Assembly approved a two-year budget lasting through this June that cuts taxes by nearly $1.9 billion. When legislators approved those cuts, Policy Matters Ohio asked a respected national policy group with a model of Ohio’s tax system to review them. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that the top […]

Policy Matters Ohio: Tax Cuts Help Create Ohio’s Revenue Crunch

January 25, 2017

In 2015, the General Assembly approved a two-year budget lasting through this June that cuts taxes by nearly $1.9 billion. When legislators approved those cuts, Policy Matters Ohio asked a respected national policy group with a model of Ohio’s tax system to review them. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that the top […]

Policy Matters Ohio: Flat tax would mean more taxes for most

January 19, 2017

  Nearly three-quarters of Ohioans would pay more in state income taxes under flat-rate tax plans for which a joint legislative commission is developing an implementation plan. At the same time, the most affluent 1 percent of Ohioans would see tax cuts averaging $4,000 or more a year.  Nearly three-quarters of Ohioans would pay more […]

Register Herald: Flat tax would make most Ohioans pay more

January 14, 2017

“Using a sophisticated model of Ohio’s tax system, the national research group, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), found that with a 3.5 percent flat tax, 72 percent of Ohioans would pay more state income tax, while just 4 percent would pay less. The remaining 24 percent would pay the same amount as they […]

Cincinnati Enquirer: Immigration coalition braces for policy changes

January 9, 2017

“Grayson, the Interfaith Workers Center director, said the coalition needs to try to work to educate the public that attempts at widespread deportations would be costly and harm families and the U.S. economy. A report released in February by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit, non-partisan research organization, calculated that the 11 […]

Policy Matters Ohio: Flat Tax Would Make Most Ohioans Pay More

January 5, 2017

Using a sophisticated model of Ohio’s tax system, the national research group, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), found that with a 3.5 percent flat tax, 72 percent of Ohioans would pay more state income tax, while just 4 percent would pay less. The remaining 24 percent would pay the same amount as they […]

Times Reporter: Al Landis is best candidate for Statehouse

October 28, 2016

“In fact, a study of state tax systems from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reported the bottom 20 percent put 11.7 percent of their income toward taxes while the top 1 percent, who make over $356,000 a year, pay 5.5 percent toward the same taxes.” Read more

Times Reporter: Challenger Jeremiah Johnson seeks 98th District House seat

October 18, 2016

“The study, ‘Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States,’ produced by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) and released in Ohio by Policy Matters Ohio, reported the bottom 20 percent put 11.7 percent of their income toward taxes while the top 1 percent, who make over $356,000 […]

Bloomberg: Ohio Income Tax Cuts

September 27, 2016

“The shifting composition of Ohio’s taxes has meant a shift, too, in who pays for state and local government. According to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy of the major tax changes between 2005 and 2014, the most affluent 1 percent of Ohioans saw an average annual cut in their tax […]

Policy Matters Ohio: Testimony: Tax Cuts, Flat Tax Aren’t the Answer

September 26, 2016

Overall, the top 1 percent, who made more than $360,000 a year in 2014, received an average annual tax cut of $20,000 from the major tax changes between 2005 and 2014 (that doesn’t include last year’s cuts). On average, Ohioans in the bottom 60 percent of the income spectrum (making $54,000 or less) are paying slightly more.

The Hill: Airbnb collecting taxes on convention rentals

July 18, 2016

Airbnb is collecting taxes on rentals during the political party conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia, according to a tax analyst. Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said the decision is the result of recent agreements and laws, and he praised the move on the liberal Tax Justice blog. Davis […]

Policy Matters Ohio: Wealthy not paying fair share of state and local taxes

April 12, 2016

“State and local taxes support schools, fix potholes, keep the snow plowed, the justice system running and the water clean. Economic prosperity depends on these public services. The wealthiest families benefit amply from our communities and state. But are they paying their fair share for these benefits? New data says they are not.” Read more

NewsNet5: PolitiFact: Was Kasich’s tax cut the largest in the nation?

March 16, 2016

“Ohio is among the states that come up in discussions about big tax cuts. But was Kasich’s truly the largest in the nation? “There are at least half a dozen reasons why there has to be an asterisk after that sentence,” said Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a […]

The Enquirer: Hundreds march to protect immigrants

March 15, 2016

“Illegal immigration is a major issue in the 2016 presidential race. Trump has called Mexicans, especially, rapists and drug dealers. A report released Feb. 24 by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit, non-partisan research organization, calculated that the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States pay $11.64 billion a year in […]

Policy Matters Ohio: Kasich-era tax changes reward the wealthy

October 21, 2015

The top 1 percent of Ohioans on average will see a $17,618 annual reduction in state taxes as a result of major tax changes made during the Kasich administration, while the bottom fifth will pay $17 more. This is the result of cuts in state income taxes, the major tax that is based on the […]

Report: Tax Policy Benefits Flow Heavily to Wealthiest Ohioans

August 28, 2015

The windfall for the wealthy results from cuts in state income taxes, the major tax that is based on the ability to pay, while increases in other taxes such as the sales tax fall more heavily on lower- and middle-income Ohioans. Those are the key findings of an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and […]

Ohio Watchdog: Is Sales Tax Holiday Good or Bad for Ohio?

August 11, 2015

Bill sponsor Rep. John Patterson Jr., D-Jefferson, thinks passage of the measure would generate activity in retail stores and help create excitement that could rival the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday sales. Matt Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, says such thinking is noble but is poor tax policy. “Anything that reduces […]

Toledo Blade: Ohio Readies for First Break on Sales Tax

August 11, 2015

Carl Davis, a senior analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit nonpartisan Washington think tank, said that while tax holidays help retailers, they don’t accomplish much else. “I think the major takeaway with sales tax holidays is they’re high profile and they get a lot of favorable attention for politicians, because […]

Columbus Dispatch: Ohio’s Sales-Tax Holiday Gets Mixed Reviews

August 11, 2015

Ohio’s first sales-tax holiday is in the books, and whether there will be one next year remains a matter of speculation. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy conducted a study that found that tax holidays tend to shift shoppers’ spending habits rather than increase overall spending. Read more

Canton Repository: Tax-Free Days Give Shoppers a Break

August 5, 2015

A 2013 analysis on the impact of a tax holiday in Ohio by the Economics Center at the University of Cincinnati found that while retail sales would increase close to 5 percent in the month of a tax holiday, that increase would be offset by losses in sales in other months, like July and September, […]

Morrow County Sentinel: Sales Tax Holiday: What Does it Mean for Ohio?

August 4, 2015

Research from the University of Cincinnati Economics Center estimates an almost five percent boost in sales during a sales tax holiday, with average families saving about $38. But according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, sales tax holidays cost states about $300 million annually. Read more

NBC: Sales Tax Holidays Complex, Controversial, But Popular With Shoppers

July 28, 2015

Research by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy contends that increased sales during the tax holidays “have been shown to be primarily the result of consumers’ shifting the timing of their planned purchases.” That organization estimates sales tax holidays will cost states $300 million in 2015. “A two- to three-day sales tax holiday […]

CNBC: Tax-Free Shopping Ahead for These States

July 24, 2015

Research by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, however, contends that increased sales during the tax holidays “have been shown to be primarily the result of consumers’ shifting the timing of their planned purchases.” That organization estimates sales tax holidays will cost states $300 million in 2015. “A two- to three-day sales tax […]

The Beacon Journal: Anxieties of the middle class

July 20, 2015

“The Kasich tax cuts produce the opposite effects. An analysis of the recently passed two-year state budget by the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy, of Washington, D.C., for Policy Matters Ohio, a Cleveland think tank, showed tax changes benefitting the rich. Ohio residents in the top 1 percent of the income scale would see […]

Columbus Dispatch: Budget Doesn’t Do Right by Poor Ohioans

July 15, 2015

One immoral aspect of Ohio’s budget is the ongoing tax shift that blesses the rich and slaps the poor. According to a recent Dispatch article, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, said that the new budget gives the richest 1 percent of Ohioans an average tax cut of $10,236 per […]

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