Gov. Terry Branstad says he and legislative leaders agree on overall spending and he’s optimistic lawmakers will approve changes to Iowa’s property tax system.
Gov. Terry Branstad’s $52 state income tax bill in 2011 is proof that fixes are needed in the tax system, Sen. Robert Hogg, D-Cedar Rapids said today.
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Arkansas bingo operators say the state lottery, casinos across the border and a state tax on bingo cards are cutting into the games they run for charity.
The governor could let companies that build new or expanded facilities in Alabama keep as much as 90 percent of the state income taxes withheld from the pay of new employees, under a plan that has deeply divided the state Senate.
It started as a way to finance the cleanup of forgotten coal mines, dangerous eyesores that collapsed or leaked acidic sludge into streams. Yet the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund turned into a piece of federal legislation with more lives than an alley…
Tennessee lawmakers are preparing for what they hope is the last week of the 107th General Assembly, though issues that still need to be worked out include the state’s annual spending plan, proposals to change the way the state selects Supreme Court ju…
The American public for years paid physicians millions of dollars in Medicare bonuses to treat the medically needy in parts of Texas and across the country – even though many doctors no longer qualified for the cash and federal officials knew it, a Hou…