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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia could soon become the first major U.S. city with a sugary drinks tax after a city council committee voted Wednesday to approve an amended version of a soda tax proposal that would set a 1.5 cent-per-ounce tax on sugary and diet drinks. Democratic Mayor Jim
Massachusetts
BOSTON — After another lackluster month of collections, tax receipts are now running $311 million behind budget benchmarks with just one month left in the fiscal year, leaving Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker with an immediate budget problem. May tax collections were up just 1.8 percent over May 2015 and fell
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Massachusetts
BOSTON — As state officials try to balance this year's $38.4 billion budget in the face of under-performing tax revenues, one source is bringing in more money than it did last year: the Massachusetts Lottery. In a presentation to the Lottery Commission on Tuesday morning, Executive Director Michael
Massachusetts
STATE HOUSE — Despite sluggish tax collections for the state's largest revenue month appearing to put the state's budget in a squeeze, Gov. Charlie Baker has no plans to impose another round of emergency cuts to keep the state's budget in balance with only two
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April 15. It's the most remembered and widely feared annual deadline on the calendar. Only such holiday dates as January 1, July 4, and December 25 surpass the date in our collective consciousness. Of course, those other dates are days of celebration; April 15 marks an annual rite
Massachusetts
BOSTON – The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Monday shot down proposals to increase the state gas tax and to cap the state's film tax credit program as they began to dispense with more than 1,300 amendments to a state budget bill. The House swiftly took care of
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It's that time of year again: tax-filing season. Millions of Americans are probably downloading the latest version of their tax preparation software as we speak or picking it up at their local software store.
Barack Obama
WASHINGTON – The question at the heart of President Barack Obama's recent directive ordering the Treasury Department to pump the brakes on U.S. companies gobbling up smaller foreign businesses to take advantage of a friendlier overseas corporate tax climate is whether America's corporate tax rate is
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