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The Streamlined Sales Tax Project (SSTP), first organized in March 2000, is intended to simplify and modernize sales and use tax collection and administration in the United States. It arose in response to efforts by Congress to permanently prohibit states from collecting sales tax on online commerce. Because such a ban would have serious ...
Initiative 732 in 2016 would have decreased the state sales tax (one of the main sources of revenue for the state government) and implemented a new tax on carbon emissions. The intent was to keep tax revenue neutral while encouraging businesses and consumers to shift away from sources of carbon emission (e.g. gasoline).
C-Tran proposed a special election in September 2005 to decide on whether residents within the new C-Tran benefit area would pay an additional 0.2% (from 7.7% to 7.9% in Vancouver) sales tax to maintain the current C-Tran service level. The measure passed by a wide majority. The agency continues to operate, and now with fresh funding, is expanding.
The state Supreme Court eventually ruled the tax was constitutional. In response, Let’s Go Washington collected more than 454,000 signatures from voters for I-2109 to go to the state Legislature.
A public transportation benefit area, abbreviated as PTBA, is a type of public-benefit corporation for public transit operators in the U.S. state of Washington. It was authorized in 1975 along with a funding mechanism that uses sales taxes levied within a district. As of 2016, there are 31 PTBAs that cover most of Washington's counties and ...
South Dakota has a 4.2% state sales tax, plus any additional local taxes. An additional 1.5% sales tax is added during the summer on sales in tourism-related businesses, dedicated to the state's office of tourism. City governments are allowed a maximum of 2% sales tax for use by the local government, especially in Sioux Falls in Minnehaha ...
The Marketplace Fairness Act was a proposed legislation pending in the United States Congress that would enable state governments to collect sales taxes and use taxes from remote retailers with no physical presence in their state. During the 112th United States Congress, a bill (S. 1832) was considered but expired without enactment.
t. e. A tax is a mandatory financial charge or levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization to support government spending and public expenditures collectively or to regulate and reduce negative externalities. [1] Tax compliance refers to policy actions and individual behavior aimed at ensuring that ...