Some 30 years after state legislators passed a temporary increase in the state's income tax, the rate in Massachusetts may return to 5 percent in 2020.
Governor Charlie Baker announced that several economic thresholds have been met as set forth by state law to trigger an automatic reduction in the state's income tax rate from 5.1 percent in 2018 to 5.05 percent in 2019, which begins in two weeks.
BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said Tuesday she plans to sue President Donald Trump's administration over plans to reintroduce a citizenship question to the 2020 federal census.
"The Census is supposed to count everyone," Healey said in a Twitter post Tuesday morning. "This is a blatant and illegal attempt by the Trump administration to undermine that goal.
