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BATON ROUGE — Some tax cuts adopted by the state House of Representatives last week were undone by a Senate committee on Tuesday when it took up major elements of the governor’s tax proposals.
The Iowa Senate has approved a constitutional amendment that would require Iowa to have a flat individual income tax rate — if the state imposes an income tax at all. The Senate voted 34-15 ...
State Origin Status Measure Description (Result of a "yes" vote) Date % req. Result Alaska: Citizens On ballot Ballot Measure 2: Repeals the state's top-four primaries and ranked-choice elections. [49] Nov 5 >50% TBD: Arizona: Legislature: Failed [50] Proposition 133: Prohibits nonpartisan blanket primaries. [51] Nov 5 >50% TBD: Citizens Failed ...
It also drastically increases the personal income tax exemption from $2,250 for individuals to $11,000 and increases the existing exemption on state property tax. In total, the plan would cost $1. ...
The largest tax increase in the proposal is the raising of Michigan's state sales tax from 6% to 7%. [2] [19] An additional law, Public Act 553, passed in December 2014 and taking effect in October 2015, will require certain Internet retailers, such as Amazon.com, to collect Michigan's sales tax at the point of purchase.
The tax emerged in some states of the United States in the late nineteenth century as part of the Jim Crow laws. After the right to vote was extended to all races by the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , a number of states enacted poll tax laws as a device for restricting voting rights.
Feb. 12—Debate on two of the most consequential bills the New Mexico Legislature is considering this year — the state's proposed $10.22 billion budget and an omnibus tax package — mirrored ...
The strategy is once a temporary tax passes, it will then be easier for the local government to either extend or increase an already existing tax in the future. Based on historical election statistics, once local government voters pass a "temporary" tax, it is generally easier to obtain subsequent voter approval for a tax extension or a tax ...