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A "mirror" tax is a tax in a U.S. dependency in which the dependency adopts wholesale the U.S. federal income tax code, revising it by substituting the dependency's name for "United States" everywhere, and vice versa. The effect is that residents pay the equivalent of the federal income tax to the dependency, rather than to the U.S. government.
It's every shopper's favorite weekend of the year - tax free weekend is almost here in Massachusetts. This year, the sales tax holiday will take place on Saturday, Aug. 10 and Sunday, Aug. 11. For ...
Chapter 61 is a voluntary current use program designed by the Massachusetts Legislature to tax real property in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at its resources value rather than its highest and best use (development) value. Landowners who enroll their land in the program receive property tax reductions in exchange for a lien on their ...
Industrialist James F. Hathaway of Somerville, Massachusetts refused to pay a municipal tax on his corporation stock and would periodically threaten to pack up and leave town if the city insisted on pressing for payment, in a game of bluff that sometimes led to the city waiving the tax, but other times led to Hathaway's jailing. [98]
Tax-exempt nonprofits are required to file a form 990 to the IRS. ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer has published the most recent form 990s filed by El Paso Children’s Hospital, showing Stout ...
Months of negotiations resulted in more than $500 million in tax relief for families, seniors, renters, businesses and real estate developers. Top Mass. lawmakers have a deal on tax relief. Here's ...
The rate of the tax is measured as the Electronic Single Side Rate (ESSR). [18] The ESSR is the tax rate charged to each individual. If the ESSR were 1%, then both parties to a transaction would pay the 1% tax. If a person were transferring money from one account to another, each account would pay a rate of 1%.
Massachusetts Question 3, filed under the name, the 3 percent Sales Tax Relief Act, appears on the November 2, 2010 ballot in the state of Massachusetts as an initiative. The measure, if enacted by voters, would reduce the state sales tax rate from 6.25 to 3 percent. The measure was sponsored by the Alliance to Roll Back Taxes headed by Carla ...