Report: Corporate Tax Cuts Boost CEO Pay, Not Jobs
This 24th annual report rebuts the GOP claim that slashing the corporate tax rate will lead to more and better jobs.
The Clever Games Tax ‘Reformers’ Play
Will corporate tax receipts increase under the Trump tax plan? Will the income individuals report decline? Only one thing is sure: The rich will come out ahead.
Report: Reversing Inequality
Unleashing the Transformative Potential of an Equitable Economy
How Tax-Dodging Billionaires Use Farmers as Props
Urban billionaires are trotting out the tractors and overalls in a bizarre effort to roll back their taxes.
Trump’s Master Class in Tax Deceit
Three ways the president is selling tax cuts for the rich when no one actually wants them.
Making Wall Street Loopholes Great Again
The public faces of President Trump’s tax plan, Gary Cohn and Steven Mnuchin, are poster boys for Wall Street tax-dodging.
Americans Want the Opposite of Trump’s Tax Plan
Tax dodgers get a big break from Donald Trump’s plan.
Seattle Takes on the Trump Budget
Trump’s budget would make Seattle’s housing crisis worse—so a new campaign is looking to make the city “Trump-proof”.
Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Spell Disaster for Low-income Communities
The administration wants massive cuts to public services, but his base depends on an engaged federal government, IPS economic inequality expert Chuck Collins tells Rising Up with Sonali.
Immigrants Pay More Than Their Fair Share
A new study shows that undocumented immigrants pay $11.7 billion in state and local taxes alone.
A Window Opens Into Trump’s Tax Returns
Trump Would Benefit From His Tax Reform Proposal
Enlisting Millennials for the Resistance
The new project Resist365 is taking aim at the inequality-expanding agenda of the new Trump administration — and inspiring a new generation of progressive leadership.
5 Ways to End CEO Pay Subsidies
Ordinary American taxpayers are subsidizing excessive CEO pay. These five reforms could help end these perverse incentives for executive excess.
Why Not Tax Heirs Directly?
Children born to poor parents have little real chance at becoming rich — or even middle class. A federal inheritance tax could help solve this.
How a Global Tax on Billionaires Could Help End Extreme Poverty
New paper makes the case that a global tax on concentrated wealth is ethical, politically viable, good for growth, and could solve a lot of the world’s problems.