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Thousands of vehicles are repeatedly blowing through Maryland E-ZPass lanes without an E-ZPass transponder, and the state is doing little to collect the millions of dollars in unpaid tolls. One car-rental company owes the state nearly $209,000 in
First came a competing save-our-schools ballot initiative, backed by a wealthy lawyer who proved more persistent than Gov. Jerry Brown had hoped. Then came a summer of minor financial embarrassments that handed Mr. Brown’s opponents a narrative to us
Georgia residents are finding themselves between the devil and the deep blue sea. They must choose whether to accept a pricey sales tax hike to fund transportation projects or face higher local taxes if they vote “no.”
Taxing sugary drinks enough might nudge people to buy fewer Big Gulps.
Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting forth plans to even them, simplify them, cap them, slash them.
New York State accounted for the biggest migration exodus of any state in the nation between 2000 and 2010, with 3.4 million residents leaving over that period. Over that decade the state gained 2.1 million, so net migration amounted to 1.3 million,
California Governor Brown was elected in 2010 on a promise to fix the state's chronic fiscal crisis. His announcement of a much bigger-than-expected shortfall in the state budget signals how far he still has to go.
A lawsuit waged in New York by a Massachusetts brewery is ending with a change that will affect independent beer makers from Buffalo all the way to the Big Apple.
Friday morning, many Americans lined up outside their local convenience stores, hoping to pick the lucky numbers that would win the record-setting $640 million jackpot.
HB 3038 would repeal Oklahoma ’s personal income tax without increasing other tax rates or cuts in funding to core government services resulting in the state having the lowest overall tax burden in the continental United States.
A ederal lawsuit challenging Colorado’s 20-year-old taxpayer-controlled state budgeting process, known by its acronym, Tabor, is speaking truth to power, plaintiffs say, and challenging the assumption that voters always know best.
Already, in the budget submitted for the fiscal year starting in July, Brown proposed about $4 billion in cuts to programs he believes in such as welfare and child care. End-running the legislature on political reform is risky, however, and Democr
Gov. Jerry Brown called on California voters Thursday to approve $6.9 billion in temporary new taxes, including a surcharge on big earners, as part of yet another bad-news budget proposal, this one for 2012. He warned that without those tax increases
North Dakota citizens may abolish property taxes. Nearly 30,000 signatures were collected to place the people's initiative on the ballot in June, 2012 that would constitutionally abolish all property taxes in North Dakota.
State governments across America know the stakes for them are high in Washington's gathering debt-ceiling crisis but are finding few ways to hedge against the big losses they know are coming.
It’s been 10 years since L. Douglas Wilder, the nation’s first elected black governor, unveiled a plan to build the United States National Slavery Museum on 38 acres here. It was to be the only institution of its kind, housed in a soaring glass-and-t
The last of the more than 60,000 Confederate veterans who came home to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are still paying a tax that supported the neediest among them. Despite fire-and-brimstone opposition to taxes among
Downtown St. Paul is suffering the Keynesian multiplier in reverse. Beyond the 22,000 public sector workers who are out of work during government shutdown, businesses that depend on government traffic have cut hours and laid off workers.
State governments across the country are laying off teachers, closing public libraries and parks, and reducing health care services, but there is one place they could get $23 billion if they could only agree how to do it: Internet retailers such as A
As four game wardens awkwardly stood guard, protesters, scores deep, crushed into a corridor leading to the governor’s office here on Wednesday, their screams echoing through the Capitol: “Come out, come out, wherever you are!”
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Starting in 2014, Obama would target companies for sharply higher payroll taxes to help states replenish their depleted unemployment funds and repay their debts to Washington. At a time when Washington is grappling with its own record deficits,
Even as local governments and the state are slashing budgets, Arizonans are propping up public-pension systems that allow civil servants to retire in their 50s, receive annuities that can exceed $100,000 a year, and collect pensions while staying on
Wine aficionados in the Maryland are routinely breaking state law to get around rules that restrict residents from having wine shipped to their homes. Lawyers, government consultants, high-tech workers and even members of the General Assembly - all t
Illinois Gov. Quinn defended a massive increase in state income taxes passed by lawmakers and promised to quickly sign the measure to help the state's ailing finances. Corporate taxes also will rise, but Quinn rejected it would decimate businesses.
Illinois Legislature Votes To Increase Income Tax By 66% : SB 2505 Instead of the proposed 75% Income Tax increase and $1 on a pack of smokes – Illinois Lawmakers have graciously assented to a 66% Tax Increase while allowing the residents of Illin
California Governor Jerry Brown unveiled a budget on Monday that included "painful" cuts to state worker pay and social services and a plan to extend tax increases as the most populous U.S. state struggles to close a $25.4 billion deficit.
Americans of all income levels overwhelmingly favor raising taxes on the rich over any other method available to reduce the budget deficit, a new poll has found.
Illinois government offers an amnesty on taxes that aren't owed dating back to 2004. Oh, and they passed a use tax to educate taxpayers that they have a use tax obligation.
Republican lawmakers are working on a plan to convert Arizona's progressive income tax to a flat tax. Many details, including the rate, are still being worked out, but state Sen. Frank Antenori, R-Tucson, said the idea is to create a predictable, equ
