Undocumented immigrants help fund teacher salaries, road and bridge repairs and other local quality-of-life improvements.

While most states have a graduated rate income tax, some state lawmakers have recently become enamored with the idea ...

Some Americans could get a break on their state income taxes this year, with nine states kicking off 2025 with a reduction in their individual income tax rates.

Your gift to ITEP promotes tax justice. With your help, we do research that supports taxing millionaires and billionaires, taxing big corporations and raising revenue ...

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 United States is exceptional among wealthy nations in its high rate of child poverty. Even more so, the U.S. is known for its high level of deep child poverty—children in families with incomes ...

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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 ...

Carl is the research director at ITEP, where he has worked since 2008. Carl works on a wide range of issues related to state, local, and federal tax policy. He has advised policymakers, researchers, ...

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 ...