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The (Mostly Untapped) Power of Local Income Taxes
Local income taxes can be an important progressive revenue raiser, as they ask more of higher-income households and are ...
Hutchinson’s sales tax collections almost 11 percent higher
Through the first three quarters of 2013, Hutchinson’s local sales tax revenues were up 10.8 percent over 2012, the first year the tax was collected. City voters approved the half-cent sales ...
Bill filed to centralize local tax collection. Is it red tape reduction or ‘government overreach’?
Proponents say the one-stop portal for businesses paying local payroll taxes is a red tape reduction move. A Kentucky cities ...
Blue State Governors Push For Higher And More Progressive Income Taxes
As blue state governors and lawmakers propose making their states more costly places to live and work, their red state ...
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Only in Washington could this fiscal vandalism be called tax ‘relief’
The 2017 tax reform capped at $10,000 the amount of state and local tax (SALT) payments that can be deducted from federal income taxes. Before then, the unlimited SALT deduction was an unlimited ...
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s Tax Plan Boosts Revenue, Increases Fairness
Maryland’s Gov. Wes Moore put forward a tax reform plan that would make the tax system fairer, simpler, and better able to ...
Why does WA have no income tax? That’s shaped class and the economy of Evergreen state
High-income earners, retirees and the wealthy have the most to gain from no state income tax, local experts said. Low and middle class people feel more of the burden from sales and property taxes and ...