The Wyoming House of Representatives has amended a hotly debated bill that would have applied a 50% cut to homeowners’ ...
Local officials, school advocates and tax policy experts said such a proposal could have dire impacts on basic services.
The next time your city or county proposes a local tax levy, it may look different on your ballot – if a bill currently under ...
Texas lawmakers in Austin again have a multi-billion dollar surplus. Again, some state leaders want to send money back to property owners and pay down local taxes by expanding the homestead exemption ...
Democratic state lawmakers are aiming to erase a voter-approved limit on annual property tax hikes as a way to generate hundreds of millions of dollars for public schools and local governments.
Better luck next time? That must be the mantra behind the governor’s reintroduction of a local option tax bill that went nowhere in the prior legislative session. Gov. Maura Healey’s reprise of ...
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 ...
Gov. Maura Healey’s reprise of the Municipal Empowerment Act would allow cities and towns to increase local taxes on meals, lodging and vehicle registrations, permanently authorize ...
wants Texas voters to have the final say on any property tax hike. Local governments that collect property taxes — including cities, counties and school districts — should have to win approval ...
SB 4 promises to provide more tax relief for homeowners and cash payments to local schools to replace a chunk of the revenue stream districts would lose.
A new tax code is likely to come with the election of President Trump, and there a few directions Congress and the president could go. According to the Tax Foundation, a ...