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Friday, April 5, 2013 |
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Tax Myths Debunked
By News Release @ 1:31 PM :: 5384 Views :: Taxes
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...Iowa Policy Project and Good Jobs First used cherry-picked data and inaccurate statements to argue that Hawaii should raise taxes....
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
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House GOP: "Senate bills would increase taxes and fees"
By News Release @ 11:17 PM :: 7104 Views :: Republican Party, Taxes
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After many House bills to raise taxes and fees failed in the House, more Senate bills that would do so are still alive....
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Monday, March 25, 2013 |
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Taxes, Marriage, PLDC Top Agenda for Hawaii Republican Assembly
By News Release @ 1:17 PM :: 7714 Views :: Family, Republican Party, Taxes
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As an affiliated chapter of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, HIRA strives to be the conservative standard-bearer of the Republican Party in Hawaii ....
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Sunday, March 24, 2013 |
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Knee-Jerk Reaction Leads to Just More Money
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 6:01 AM :: 5519 Views :: Taxes
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...how much is too much when it comes to spending on government programs....
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Saturday, March 23, 2013 |
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Hirono, Schatz Cast Decisive Votes as Senate Passes Trillion Dollar Tax Hike
By Selected News Articles @ 12:50 PM :: 7976 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Taxes
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...a $3.7 trillion blueprint for 2014 that would fast-track passage of tax increases, trim spending gingerly and leave the government still deeply in the debt a decade from now....
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
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Online Travel Companies Ordered to Pay $70M, Appeal Planned
By News Release @ 12:38 AM :: 8561 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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Tax Appeal Court Judge Gary W.B. Chang yesterday granted the State of Hawaii’s motion for summary judgment....
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
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Tell Congress: No Internet Sales Tax
By News Release @ 2:23 PM :: 5460 Views :: Taxes
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The internet sales tax mandate would force businesses to become sales tax collectors for all states....
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Monday, March 18, 2013 |
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Abercrombie: Hotel Industry TAT Concerns are "Propaganda"
By News Release @ 8:31 PM :: 7111 Views :: Economy, Taxes, Tourism
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...the governor interrupted by saying he has been hearing “the same propaganda.”
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Sunday, March 17, 2013 |
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Key to Hawaii’s Future is Business Climate
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 6:11 AM :: 9467 Views :: Economy, Small Business, Tax Credits, Taxes
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we, mere mortals, cannot predict what the prize industry of the future will be....
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Saturday, March 16, 2013 |
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List of Tax Measures Moving in Legislature Totals Seven Pages
By Andrew Walden @ 12:06 AM :: 6994 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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Some raise, some redistribute. Others give credit where credit may not be due....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Republican Caucus Commends Fiscally Conservative Hawaii House Budget
By News Release @ 7:43 PM :: 6516 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Republican Party, Taxes
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"This is a clear sign that the House is moving in the right direction," said Minority Leader Aaron Ling Johanson, Vice Chair of the House Committee on Finance.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Schatz Proposes $180 Billion Carbon Tax
By News Release @ 3:16 PM :: 6377 Views :: Environment, Taxes
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What is the appropriate price per ton for 'polluters' to pay? The draft contains alternative prices of $15, $25, and $35 per ton....
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Sunday, March 10, 2013 |
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Knock Off the Theatrics and Get Down To Business
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:11 AM :: 5307 Views :: Taxes
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For the last two months, taxpayers heard time and time again that the “sky is falling, the sky is falling”....
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013 |
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Senate Ways and Means Rejects Beverage Tax
By News Release @ 7:58 PM :: 6985 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...we are one step closer to ensuring that the beverage tax is defeated for the third year in a row....
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Friday, March 1, 2013 |
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Obama's Sequester Smokescreen
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:05 AM :: 9777 Views :: National News, Economy, Taxes, Obama
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For the past few days the White House, with a big assist from sympathetic media, has done all within its considerable powers to make it seem like sequestration means the end of the world....
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
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Politico: Is President Obama Telling the Truth about Sequestration?
By NCPA @ 1:57 PM :: 8561 Views :: National News, Taxes, Obama
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... agencies cannot give a clear answer on how they arrived at their numbers. Congressional appropriations committee aides say they cannot fact check the administration's estimates ....
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
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Could Soda Tax Shutter Hawaii's Only Can Maker?
By News Release @ 4:11 PM :: 7960 Views :: Economy, Health Care, Taxes
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The Ball Corporation is the only manufacturer of metal cans in the islands. The company employs 45 people and the beverage tax places their jobs directly at risk.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013 |
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Jerking the Hotel Industry Around, You Can’t Trust Lawmakers
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 4:55 AM :: 6787 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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Recognizing the need to help the state balance it books, the hotel industry agreed to a temporary increase in the TAT rate which was increased two percentage points from 7.25% to 9.25%. The temporary increase is supposed to expire on June 30, 2015....
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Friday, February 15, 2013 |
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Consumer Freedom: Taxes Shouldn't be a Tool for Social Engineering
By News Release @ 4:10 PM :: 5408 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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“Taxes shouldn’t be a tool for social engineering or an instrument to penalize Hawaiians for doing nothing wrong....”
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Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Uses $275K in State Money to Push Soda Tax Hike
By Video @ 10:35 PM :: 6134 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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During a special premiere at the State Capitol, Gov. Neil Abercrombie and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) today launched a new teen-focused multi-media campaign to combat obesity....
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Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
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Sin Taxes: A Questionable Source of Revenue
By NCPA @ 2:36 PM :: 4432 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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...lobbyists are relied upon heavily to vie for the interests of the higher-income consumers and producers, leaving the burden of the new tax to lower income consumers who cannot afford representation....
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Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
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Beverage Tax Heads to Senate Ways and Means Committee
By News Release @ 2:23 PM :: 4230 Views :: Taxes
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The reality is that calories in the American diet from added sugars in soda have dropped nearly 40 percent since 2000....
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Sunday, February 10, 2013 |
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Just Which Programs To Cut?
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:12 AM :: 6373 Views :: Taxes
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...everything is on the table from an increase in the general excise tax rate to fund education to new fees on cell phone use to the administration’s proposals to tax sugary drinks and single-use bags....
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Friday, February 8, 2013 |
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Suckers: HTA Maneuvered into Supporting Tax Hike On its Own Industry
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 7151 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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Just bluff an increase in TAT and they all line up in favor of extending the ‘temporary’ 9.25% rate....
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Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
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UHERO: Bag Tax and Conveyance Tax Have Downside
By News Release @ 8:55 PM :: 6989 Views :: Environment, Economy, Taxes
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...such taxes can shrink the economy unnecessarily by discouraging investment and artificially raising the price of basic needs....
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Sunday, February 3, 2013 |
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DoTax Employees Secretly Arrested, Fired
By Andrew Walden @ 12:40 PM :: 11294 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement, Tax Credits, Taxes
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A number of tax department employees who were investigated in connection with the security breaches have been “arrested and relieved of their duties,” said state Rep. John Mizuno....
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Sunday, February 3, 2013 |
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Jacking Up the Heat in Tax and Fee Hell
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:05 AM :: 5143 Views :: Taxes
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People inquiring about what the legislature is doing are surprised when told that lawmakers are hard at work trying to find ways to take even more of their money. Of course, it starts at the top....
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Thursday, January 31, 2013 |
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Tax Cut or Minimum Wage Hike? Hawaii 4th-Highest Taxes for Low Income Residents
By Andrew Walden @ 4:14 AM :: 7738 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Taxes
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Instead of cutting taxes on the poor, Abercrombie proposes to extract more taxes from them by hiking the minimum wage.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013 |
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Impact of High Taxes Cripples Economic Growth
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:00 AM :: 5126 Views :: Taxes
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...elected officials desperate to make-up the budget shortfall selectively raised taxes, resorting to increases that weren’t visible to the general public in order to avoid mass resentment ....
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
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Eco-Friendly? Reusable Shopping Bags Poisoning Our Oceans
By Mary Smart @ 2:20 AM :: 7182 Views :: Environment, Taxes
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Abercrombie was right about one thing in his 2013 State of the State speech, there are too many answers in the form of solutions being proposed before sufficient questions are asked and researched....
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
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HI-5 Fraud Shows DoH Cannot be Trusted With Soda Tax
By News Release @ 9:23 PM :: 5708 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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As public audits recently revealed, it's difficult to trust the Department of Health to spend our tax dollars wisely....
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Monday, January 21, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Soda Tax: $1.28 per Gallon
By Selected News Articles @ 8:26 PM :: 7329 Views :: Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living
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In 2011, he had attempted to pass a soda tax under the Orwellian title “Sugary Beverage Healthy Hawaii Fee,” but the state legislature saw through the obfuscating rhetoric and defeated it.
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Sunday, January 20, 2013 |
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Abercrombie to Push Penny an Ounce Soda Tax
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 6287 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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A 12 ounce soda would cost 12 cents more....
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Sunday, January 20, 2013 |
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Instill Priorities for Precious Tax Dollars
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:53 AM :: 4722 Views :: Taxes
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...each bright, shiny and eager face will have an agenda to deliver to his or her constituents back in their home districts. That means money!
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
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Poll: State Taxes Should Require a Super Majority for Passage
By News Release @ 10:48 PM :: 7966 Views :: Energy, Economy, Small Business, Taxes
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Should the Legislature require the state Public Utilities Commission to approve energy projects that further the state’s renewable energy goals even if it costs consumers more? -- NO 75%
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Monday, January 14, 2013 |
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Experts: Bag Tax Spreads Disease, Fills Hospitals
By Mary Smart @ 10:40 PM :: 7050 Views :: Environment, Taxes
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The bag tax revenue could very well be exceeded by the expenses caused by additional hospitalizations.
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Monday, January 14, 2013 |
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$150M Tax Ruling "Will Significantly Reduce Demand for Hawaii Vacations"
By News Release @ 8:59 PM :: 9783 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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“This ruling will significantly increase costs for all tour operators, travel agents, OTCs, and other travel intermediaries...."
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Sunday, January 13, 2013 |
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Instead of Exempting Wholesaling from GET, Reduce Rate on Business Inputs
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:09 AM :: 4702 Views :: Taxes
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...repeal of the lesser half percent rate was made as a parry to the recommendation of their consultant that the overall rate imposed on all retail activities be increased to generate more revenues for the state....
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Friday, January 11, 2013 |
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Braces for the Kids Just Got More Expensive: Obamacare Tax Hike Case Study
By Americans for Tax Reform @ 11:23 AM :: 6073 Views :: National News, Health Care, Taxes
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In 2013, the tax increases in Obamacare will increasingly conspire against kitchen-table family healthcare decisions....
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 |
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13 Tax Increases in 2013
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:14 PM :: 5292 Views :: National News, Taxes
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The deal that Congress and President Obama struck that finally—but only partially—avoided the fiscal cliff resulted in seven tax increases. Those hikes combined with six tax increases from Obamacare....
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Sunday, January 6, 2013 |
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Ills Cannot be Cured With Fees and Taxes
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:02 AM :: 6717 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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As another legislative session is about to be convened, let’s look back at some of their follies over the past few years ....
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Thursday, January 3, 2013 |
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Abercrombie: Make Tax Hikes Permanent
By News Release @ 11:14 PM :: 6063 Views :: Economy, Taxes
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"...revenue enhancements such as making permanent certain tax provisions that are due to sunset in 2015 and beyond.”
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 |
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Fiscal Cliff: Who Won? Who Lost?
By John Goodman @ 2:42 PM :: 6394 Views :: National News, Taxes
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...real billionaires, like Warren Buffett, are going to be affected very little by the new higher rates (unrealized capital gains will still be taxed at a rate of zero), while entrepreneurs with pass-through income are going to get hosed....
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 |
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Taxes to Rise on Most American Workers
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:07 PM :: 5851 Views :: National News, Taxes
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The Wall Street Journal calculates that the “typical U.S. family earning $50,000 a year” will lose “an annual income boost of $1,000.”
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 |
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House Passes Fiscal Cliff Tax Hikes 257-167
By Selected News Articles @ 1:41 PM :: 6197 Views :: National News, Taxes
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When Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased taxes in return for spending cuts—cuts that never ultimately came—they did so at ratios of 1:3 and 1:2....
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 |
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Tax Hikes to Start the New Year
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:36 PM :: 4767 Views :: National News, Taxes
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Postpones sequestration’s automatic spending cuts (including those to defense) by two months....
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Sunday, December 30, 2012 |
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$1 Trillion Obamacare Tax Hike Hitting on Jan. 1
By Americans for Tax Reform @ 4:27 PM :: 6645 Views :: National News, Taxes
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On January 1, regardless of the outcome of fiscal cliff negotiations, Americans will be hit with a $1 trillion Obamacare tax hike....
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Thursday, December 27, 2012 |
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10 Facts on the Fiscal Cliff, Debt, and Spending
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:02 PM :: 5268 Views :: National News, Taxes
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...just days left for President Obama and lawmakers in Congress to avert a major tax hike, sequestration, and other major policy changes....
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Monday, December 24, 2012 |
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’Twas the Night Before Cliff-mas
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:44 PM :: 4816 Views :: National News, Taxes
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With time running out for President Obama and Congress to reach an agreement, this Christmas Eve we bring to you 2012 twist on Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem....
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Saturday, December 22, 2012 |
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Panetta Memo Describes Possible Sequestration Effects
By News Release @ 1:52 AM :: 4980 Views :: Military, Taxes
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Under the law, the reductions are due to take place Jan. 2, 2013
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