State and local tax news — from state income tax quirks to property tax fights, because not all tax battles happen in Washington.
D is for Deductible Taxes. (Admit it, you thought I was going to say depreciation. Nah, that was last year.) It feels like everything you touch these days is associated with some kind of tax. You can get socked with taxes for doing anything from working to tanning to smoking. It can add up. Surely…
This week, the eyes of the nation turn to South Carolina. No, not for the 37th Annual South Carolina Square and Round Dance Convention (though who among us doesn’t enjoy a good line dance?). They’ll be watching the South Carolina Republican primary, to be held on January 19, 2012. I know what you’re thinking: why…
I hate to shop. I don’t have the patience for it. I have three kids and if you’ve ever been behind me in line at the store (first of all, I apologize), you know that the whole production takes forever. Add to the timing pressure the fact that I work and I write… And well,…
I don’t do the whole Black Friday thing. There is nothing (and I mean nothing) that I want/need/crave/desire enough to stand in line with a bunch of total strangers – who may or may not have showered recently – to buy. I do, however, do Cyber Monday, the online version of Black Friday. I’m not…
The Supreme Court has granted certiorari in the case of Armour, et al., v. Indianapolis, et al (docket 11-161). That’s a lawyerly way of saying that the Supreme Court will hear the matter. Some cases have what’s called “original jurisdiction” in the Supreme Court but most do not. To be heard at the Supreme Court…
As it turns out, the New Jersey tax credit wasn’t a “shore” thing after all (I know, it was a terrible pun but I couldn’t help it). New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has decided against a $420,000 tax credit for the hit MTV show, Jersey Shore, taking his veto pen to the credit after…
On September 21, 2011, at exactly 11:08 p.m. EST, Troy Davis was put to death by the state of Georgia after the U.S. Supreme Court failed to grant him a stay. His execution by legal injection became the 1,268th recorded execution in the United States since 1976. Later that same day, Lawrence Brewer of Texas…
So who didn’t see this coming? With the ink barely dry on California’s internet sales tax deal with Amazon, other states are chatting up a similar idea. Even states that were willing to sit this one out – like Florida – are beginning to talk. An Op-Ed in The Ledger is suggesting that California’s coup may…
When you live in Philadelphia, you have to make fun of New Jersey. I think it’s in the City charter or something. And as much as I love Jon Stewart, Springsteen, fresh blueberries and the oh-so-civilized liquor laws, I still can’t help but poke fun at state whose residents identify themselves by exit numbers and…
Talk about down to the wire… The Amazon deal is so fresh (it was passed after 10pm last night) that you can’t find much in the way of confirmation yet on the web. In fact, the California legislature has the bill, AB 155, listed as “in assembly” since the vote taken on yesterday is still…