Jon Whiten

I’ll say this as many times as I have to.

No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.

The recently-passed House tax bill changes course on taxing multinational corporations engaged in shifting U.S. profits overseas, offering massive tax giveaways that weaken American revenues and risk sending more American corporate investment offshore. itep.substack.com/p/house-bill...

GOP rejects ‘millionaire tax’ pitch, advancing breaks for rich Americans Legislation moving through Congress includes significant breaks for the affluent as the House rebuffs President Donald Trump’s suggestions.

So much for economic populism!

The top 1% of earners — making more than $920,000 — would receive an average tax cut of close to $70,000 in the first year after enactment.

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Analysis of Tax Provisions in the House Reconciliation Bill: National and State Level Estimates The poorest fifth of Americans would receive 1 percent of the House reconciliation bill's net tax cuts in 2026 while the richest fifth of Americans would receive two-thirds of the tax cuts. The riches...

Wondering just how big of a tax cut would the richest 1% in your state get from the bill the House passed this morning? We've got you covered: itep.org/analysis-of-...

House Tax Bill Would Create a Parallel, Harsher Tax Code for Immigrant Filers and their Citizen Family Members Immigrant tax filers face a harsher tax code than citizens in some important respects. Sweeping tax legislation recently passed by the House of Representatives would apply new or stricter limits for i...

The way the House reconciliation bill uses the tax code to punish immigrants + their citizen family members is unprecedented & immoral. This weaponization of the tax system will also lead to more complicated work for the IRS at a time its funding is being significantly cut.

Analysis of Tax Provisions in the House Reconciliation Bill: Preliminary National Estimates The poorest fifth of Americans would receive 1 percent of the House reconciliation bill's net tax cuts in 2026 while the richest fifth of Americans would receive two-thirds of the tax cuts. The riches...

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The House worked all night under the cloak of darkness to deliver huge tax breaks for wealthy Americans and foreign investors while stripping health care and food assistance from millions of Americans.

Analysis of Tax Provisions in the House Reconciliation Bill: Preliminary National Estimates The poorest fifth of Americans would receive 1 percent of the House reconciliation bill's net tax cuts in 2026 while the richest fifth of Americans would receive two-thirds of the tax cuts. The riches...

More here: itep.org/analysis-of-...

New analysis of the tax provisions in the House reconciliation package: The richest 1% of Americans would receive a total of $138 billion in net tax cuts in 2026, significantly more than the $92 billion that would go the bottom 60% of Americans.

Dynastic Wealth of Ultra-Rich American Families Wins Again With GOP Tax Bill | Common Dreams The Republican's policy will continue a decades-long effort to weaken a critical tool to prevent the hoarding of wealth from one generation to the next.

The Republican's policy will continue a decades-long effort to weaken a critical tool to prevent the hoarding of wealth from one generation to the next.
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The House Tax Plan, By the Numbers The House of Representatives unveiled a sprawling piece of tax legislation earlier this week that would extend temporary tax changes enacted in 2017 and layer various kinds of tax cuts and increases o...

The damaging House tax bill is heading toward a floor vote later this week. It gives two-thirds of its tax cuts to the top 20% of families and 41% to the top 5% of families, all while taking health care and food assistance away from millions of Americans. itep.org/house-tax-pl...

Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit as Congress considers bill that could add to deficits Moody’s knocked the government’s credit rating down a notch as debt soars.

Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating, as the country’s debt soars and interest rates remain high.

The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.

The $86 million Congress proposes to spend in FY26 repealing the excise tax on firearm silencers is trivial. But it's a little alarming that, at $200 a pop, we apparently buy over 400,000 silencers a year. And JCT appears to think we're going to buy 15% more of them each year going forward.

SETBACK. The GOP's big sweeping bill just failed in the Budget Committee, 16-21. Five Republicans voted NO. "The NOs have it. The committee stands in recess, subject to the call of the chair," Jodey Arrington says.

There's a lot of talk of helping "working people" in the House tax bill through Trump's campaign promises on tips, OT, car loan interest, and senior tax breaks.

Thing is, those only amount to 4% - YES, 4% - of the tax cuts in the bill. No wonder the thing is regressive.

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House Tax Bill Would Encourage Dynastic Wealth Hoarding by Further Weakening the Estate Tax The sprawling tax and spending bill before the House of Representatives would cut more than $200 billion from food assistance, potentially affecting 4 million children and 7 million adults, while prov...

With roughly the same amount of $, the House GOP wants to:

1) take away food assistance from as many as 4 million kids and 7 million adults
2) give an estate tax cut to a few thousand people who will leave behind more than $7 million to their heirs

Talk about priorities!

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House GOP plan to raise child tax credit adds citizenship provisions The bill would boost the tax break to as much as $2,500 but end it for children of undocumented immigrants and married parents who file separate returns.

Not only would the CTC plan keep 17 million of the poorest kids from getting the full credit, it would bar 4.5 million citizen kids from getting it at all because of their parents' immigration status.

ITEP Statement: Partial House Tax Bill Doubles Down on Trickle Down Contact: Jon Whiten (jon@itep.org) House Republicans have released some of the text of the tax bill they hope to begin…

There is a lot not to like in the parts of the 2025 tax bill released by the House GOP last night but one thing that bothers me the most is the proposal to strip the CTC from 4.5 million kids in mixed-status families. itep.org/itep-stateme...

What Corporations Have to Gain from the Gutting of the IRS Seven huge corporations recently announced that in 2024 they were allowed to collectively keep $1.4 billion in tax breaks from previous years that they had publicly admitted would likely be found ille...

"Uncertain tax benefits," explained -->

Corporation to SEC: I'm taking some tax breaks that, if investigated, would likely be illegal.

IRS: zzzzzz

Statute of limitations: Time's up!

Corporation: Yay, I get to keep those tax breaks!

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IRS Has Shed More Than 11% Of Its Workforce With Thousands More Cuts On The Way The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has issued a report on efforts to reduce the IRS workforce. Every state has been impacted.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has issued a report on efforts to reduce the IRS workforce. Every state has been impacted.

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How Federal Employee Layoffs and Contract Cancellations Will Harm State Tax Revenues State lawmakers should prepare to pause or roll back their recent tax cuts and begin planning for tax increases to help them weather the fiscal storm that is coming their way.

Many states are moving forward with tax cut plans at a time when they should clearly be preserving revenues

Take your child to work day was a blast

Ending Direct File Program is a Gift to the Tax-Prep Industry That Will Cost Taxpayers Time and Money The Trump administration reportedly plans to shutter the IRS Direct File program before it has a chance to get fully off the ground, taking away a free option for people to file their tax returns dire...

Filing your taxes should, for most people, be 3 things:

1. easy
2. fast
3. free

Direct File was the vehicle to accomplish this. Destroying it hurts taxpayers and enriches the profitable corporations that charge Americans for tax filing.

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Trump’s Mass-Deportation Campaign Hasn’t Really Started Yet The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.

NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement.

ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion.

Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.

(Published 2019)

IRS plan to give data to ICE could wallop California, where many immigrants pay taxes A Trump administration plan to begin targeting undocumented immigrants using IRS data has sparked fear, anger and economic concern in California, where undocumented taxpayers contribute billions in lo...

“I heard it from everybody,” said a consultant for undocumented small-business entrepreneurs in Southern California. “They come to me and they say, ‘Hey, should I do my taxes this year? Because they’re going to come find me.’” www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

TurboTax and H&R Block have spent millions lobbying against the IRS' free, online filing tool.

Dozens of Republicans are now trying to kill the tool.

But it's still available and helping millions of taxpayers in 25 states right now.

See if you qualify: directfile.irs.gov

IRS Cooperation with ICE Will Damage Public Trust, Putting Tax Revenues in Jeopardy Attempts by the Department of Homeland Security to secure private information from the IRS on people who file taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number is a violation of federal privacy ...

DC's new BFFs: ICE & the IRS. What could go wrong?

Missouri Republican state lawmakers are pushing a radical anti-worker tax plan The piece has been updated to reflect the latest version of the bill passed by the Missouri Senate, which no longer eliminates the state earned income tax credit, reduces the corporate income tax, or ...

Missouri Republicans are pushing a radical, anti-worker tax plan that fully exempts all capital gains from taxes ⚠️

The top 1% would get 320x the tax cut of a middle-class taxpayer, according to @itep.org

Exempting capital gains is unambiguously bad for working people

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New literature review from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service on the economic effects of the 2017 Trump Tax Cuts concludes: "[T]he literature as a whole does not provide support for significant effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the economy." www.congress.gov/crs-product/...