Local taxes are key to thriving communities. One in seven tax dollars in the U.S.—about $886 billion annually—is levied by ...

The 2025 legislative season will be here before we know it, and state lawmakers have begun unveiling their priorities and ...

It’s hard to find many things that 80% of Americans agree on, but they exist. In various polls taken earlier this year, 4 out of 5 Americans said Joe Biden was too old to run for a second term, the ...

ITEP is a non-profit, non-partisan tax policy organization. We conduct rigorous analyses of tax and economic proposals and provide data-driven recommendations to shape equitable and sustainable tax ...

Virtually every state’s tax system is fundamentally unfair, requiring a much greater share of income from middle- and low-income families than from wealthy families. Nationwide, low-income Americans ...

Select a state by clicking on the map or choosing one from the dropdown. Click on your state for details. Forty-four states’ tax systems exacerbate income inequality. When the lowest-income households ...

The federal, state, and local distributional analyses and revenue estimates that ITEP produces are based on data from the ITEP Tax Microsimulation Model. The initial version of the ITEP Model was ...

Steve is ITEP’s federal policy director. In this role, he is responsible for setting the organization’s federal research and policy agenda. He is the author of numerous reports and analyses of federal ...

Matt Gardner is a senior fellow at ITEP where he has worked since 1998. He previously served as ITEP’s executive director from 2006 to 2016. Matt’s work focuses on federal, state and local tax systems ...

ITEP’s federal policy resources provide quantitative and qualitative research and analysis on current tax policies, proposals and reform options. Its distributional analyses highlight how tax ...