Bill to set Aug. 15-16 as sales tax holiday

Bill to set Aug. 15-16 as sales tax holiday

By Michael P. Norton
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

STATE HOUSE-Shoppers interested in taking advantage of a temporary suspension of the state's 6.25 percent sales tax rate should circle Aug. 15-16 on their calendars or set up an alert for those dates on their smartphones.

Bogus enrollees exploited ‘Obamacare’
Barack Obama

Bogus enrollees exploited ‘Obamacare’

Associated Press

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Phony applicants that investigators signed up last year under President Barack Obama's health care law got automatically re-enrolled for 2015. Some were rewarded with even bigger taxpayer subsidies for their insurance premiums, a congressional probe has found.

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