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Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The Geographic Distribution of Extreme Wealth in the U.S. Excessive concentration of wealth runs counter to our national aspiration for genuine equality of opportunity, and it saps the vitality of our democracy through the …
A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan – ITEP
Oct 7, 2024 · Steve Wamhoff, “Extending Temporary Provisions of the 2017 Trump Tax Law: Updated National and State-by-State Estimates,” Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, September 13, 2024. Steve Wamhoff, ”The Estate Tax is Irrelevant to More Than 99 Percent of Americans,“ Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, December 7, 2023. Lester & Rector (2016) find that 37.2
Corporate Taxes Before and After the Trump Tax Law – ITEP
May 2, 2024 · The Trump tax law slashed taxes for America’s largest, consistently profitable corporations. These companies saw their effective tax rates fall from an average of 22.0 percent to an average of 12.8 percent after the Trump tax law went into effect in 2018.
Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants – ITEP
Jul 30, 2024 · Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both because their wages would rise and because their rates of …
Federal Tax Cuts in the Bush, Obama, and Trump Years – ITEP
Jul 11, 2018 · APPENDIX I. More detailed figures are provided in the attached tables.. APPENDIX II. Legislative Changes Included in This Analysis. Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA), the 2001 Bush tax cuts. Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (JGTRRA), the 2003 Bush tax cuts. Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004 (WFTRA) and Tax Increase Prevention and ...
How Would the Harris and Trump Tax Plans Affect Different …
Oct 23, 2024 · Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have put forward a wide range of different tax proposals during this year’s campaign. We have now fully analyzed the distributional impacts of the major proposals of both Vice President Harris and former President Trump in separate analyses. In all, the tax proposals announced by Harris would, on average, lead to a tax cut for all income ...
Study: Undocumented Immigrants Contribute Nearly $100 Billion …
July 30, 2024 Study: Undocumented Immigrants Contribute Nearly $100 Billion in Taxes a Year news release
The Pitfalls of Flat Income Taxes – ITEP
Jan 17, 2023 · Flat Rate Income Taxes Come with Significant Downsides. Flat taxes consign states to regressive and inequitable taxation that falls far short of the “flat tax” ideal proponents claim to value, and do not advance the economic, budgetary, or simplicity goals commonly used to advocate for their enactment.
Who Pays? 7th Edition - ITEP
Read as PDF. Data Available for Download. State-by-State Data and ITEP Tax Inequality Index Map. Executive Summary. Who Pays? is the only distributional analysis of tax systems in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This comprehensive 7th edition of the report assesses the progressivity and regressivity of state tax systems by measuring effective state …
How Local Governments Raise Revenue—and What it Means for …
Mar 30, 2023 · Most local tax systems are falling short of their potential. Well-structured local tax policies support communities by facilitating important investments and advancing fairness, but the tax revenue sources most utilized by local governments tend to disproportionately weigh on households with fewer resources. Learning from these realities can inform the path to improved tax policies and ...