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Kansas Governor Considers Sales Tax Rate Extension
Kansas Sales Tax May Remain Unchanged in 2013. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is considering keeping sales tax at the current rate, rather than reducing it in July, 2013, as planned. New legislation...
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Massachusetts Governor Seeks Tax Increases to Fund Public Projects
Massachusetts Governor Proposes Sweeping Changes to Tax System. Last week, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D) announced ambitious plans to expand the state’s transportation system. Like many...
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Minnesota Governor Seeks Reduction in Sales Tax
Minnesota Governor Wants to Decrease Sales Tax, Increase Income Tax. Update 3.1.13: The Minnesota Department of Revenue has released a Sales Tax Reform Overview of Governor Dayton’s proposed budget....
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Kansas Governor Wants to Extend a Sales Tax Increase
Kansas Governor Proposes Extending a Temporary Sales Tax Increase. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) has released his fiscal year 2014-15 budget proposal. It’s controversial, to say the least. Much of...
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Democratic Governors Consider Sales Tax Decreases
Massachusetts and Minnesota Governors Consider Dropping Sales Tax, Increasing Income Tax. If several Republican governors in the nation are considering decreases in income and corporate taxes in favor...
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Kansas: Brownback’s Tax Proposals Still Alive
Kansas: Tax Break on Mortgages May Disappear. UPDATE, 3.15.13: The Kansas Senate passed an amended version of HB 2059 yesterday in a 25 to 14 vote, and sent it back to the House for approval. The new...
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Washington Considers Adding Income Tax, Lowering Sales Tax
Gérard Depardieu Won’t Move to Washington. Lawmakers are talking in Olympia, Washington, though not all like what they’re hearing. A handful of Senate Democrats are calling for dramatic changes to the...
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Missouri Considers Sales Tax Increase
Missouri Governor Says Kleenex Will Cost More Under SB 26. The Missouri Senate has approved legislation that would reduce individual and corporate income taxes by 0.75 percent and raise the state...
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Georgia Lawmakers Say Eliminate Income Tax, Expand Sales Tax
Georgia Lawmakers Consider Expanding Sales Tax, Eliminating Income tax. Several Georgia lawmakers have proposed eliminating the state income tax and expanding the sales tax. Junior Representative Tom...
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Louisiana Governor Parks Tax Reform Package
Governor Jindal’s tax reform plan. In recent months, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) has traveled around the state promoting his plan to eliminate income taxes and expand the sales tax base....
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Can Taxes–or Lack of Them–Free Maine?
Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge, Washington County, Maine. Maine is a lovely state. It has a long craggy coastline, quaint historic towns, and vast open spaces. From Mount Desert Island Downeast...
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Missouri Cracks Down on Negligent and Thieving Businesses
Missouri Department of Revenue: calling a thief a thief. In states with a sales tax, businesses collect sales tax from customers and then remit it to the state. The tax simply passes through...
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Georgia Considers Reducing Income Tax, Raising Sales Tax
Georgia: if income tax rates go down, must sales tax rates go up? There is a movement in Georgia to greatly reduce or completely abolish the state income tax, and raise sales tax in its place....
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Nebraska Tax Reform Brewing
Will Nebraska lawmakers seek to eliminate sales tax exemptions in 2014? In his 2014 State of the State Address, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman (R) admitted that “taxes are one of the toughest and...
View ArticleDoes Fair Tax = National Retail Sales Tax
There is a movement afoot in Georgia to abolish federal income and payroll-based taxes and implement a national retail sales […] The post Does Fair Tax = National Retail Sales Tax appeared first on...
View ArticleAlaska Governor Choses Income over Sales Tax
Alaska Governor Bill Walker has unveiled his plan to revamp the state budget. It includes income tax, not a statewide sales […] The post Alaska Governor Choses Income over Sales Tax appeared first on...
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