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St. Petersburg Scraps Plan To Build Police Headquarters, 'Peculiar Smelling' CSI Lab Lives On

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Dna, Police Headquarters, Crime Lab, Property Tax, Budget Cuts, Tax Cuts, Florida, Sales Tax, Police Department, Business News

In St. Petersburg, Fla., just a few hours northwest of the Miami crime lab TV made famous, the city's forensic team toils in a lab that is anything bu...

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Anti-Abortion Bill Could Tax Rape Victims

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.08.2012

The sweeping anti-abortion bill working its way through the Kansas Legislature would levy a sales tax on women seeking abortions, including rape victi...

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How to Solve the US Budget Crisis -- Dismiss the Super Committee

Lyric Hughes Hale | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Taxes, U.S. Economy, Congress, Social Security, Debt Ceiling, Internet Tax, Economic Crisis, Sales Tax, Immigration, Immigration Reform, Super Committee, Federal Budget Deficit, Revenue, Economic Recovery, Defense Spending, Medicare, Tea Party, Politics News

The US budget debate has been highly politicized. Now it is the time to take a fresh look at the numbers, and the realities behind them.

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Prospect Of Online Sales Tax Grows

latimes.com | Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Amazon.com, Sales Tax, Amazon, Technology News

Reporting from Washington-- Lawmakers, looking to help cash-strapped local governments, are coalescing around legislation aimed at letting states requ...

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Seattle Voters Pass $232 Million School Levy, Doubling Taxes

Posted 01.09.2012

Voters in Seattle approved of a $232 million education levy Tuesday, nearly doubling the current levy, which has been in place for seven years. Now...

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Republicans Attack Cain's 9-9-9 Plan

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Vat, Taxes, Revenue Neutral, Debate, Cain, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, 84 Percent, 999 Plan, Republican, Lake Wobegon, 99 Percent, Income Tax, Math, Tax Policy, 999, Chris Weigant, Tax, Herman Cain, Value Added Tax, Regressive, Sales Tax, Politics News

Cain is fighting hard, but he will fail. "I'm going to raise taxes on 84 percent of America!" is not the best way to get elected in this country, and it is definitely not the way to win a GOP primary.

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Conservative '53 Percenters' Attack Occupy Wall Street Movement

| Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: 99 Percent, Child-Care Tax Credit, Video, Poverty, Occupy Wall Street, We Are the 99 Percent, Tax Policy Center, Tumblr 99 Percent, Sales Tax, 53 Percent, Bush Tax Cuts, Business News

By Annie Lowrey (View original here) The slogan doesn't exactly sing: "We are the 53 percent!" But this new campaign, a conservative answer to Occu...

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10 States With the Highest Combined Sales Tax Rates

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Paul Misener, Video, Governor Jerry Brown, Amazon Sales Tax, Great Recession, Online Sales Tax, Sales Tax, Sales Tax Revenue, Tax Foundation, Combined Sales Tax, Amazon, Business News

Sales tax revenue has plummeted since the start of the recession. And for certain states, that's been a particularly big blow. Of course, sales ta...

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Dot-com Deadbeats

Kenneth Kales | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Tax Evasion, Online Retailers, Sales Tax, Corporate Greed, Online Sales Tax, Amazon Sales Tax, Business News

Yes, you and I always have paid the sales tax on what we buy in a store. It is a populist approach and we have accepted it. But that's largely not the case when we buy online.

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Should You Boycott Amazon?

Andrew Losowsky | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Taxes, Internet Sales Tax, Amazon Boycott, Tax, California Online Sales Tax, Amazon Laws, Online Sales Tax, Amazon Law, Sales Tax, Wal-Mart, Amazon, Books News

Amazon is facing a boycott from a coalition of nonprofits in California over its opposition to an internet sales tax. The group is calling for users t...

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16 States To Host Tax Free Back To School Shopping

The Huffington Post | Laura Stampler | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: School Supplies, Back to School Shopping, Parents-Back-to-School, School Clothes, Tax on Back to School Supplies, Sales Tax Holidays, Sales Tax, Parents News

The words tax and holiday have very different connotations. This August, however, 16 states will be celebrating sales tax holidays -- right in tim...

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Amazon Wants Voters To Decide On California Tax Law

AP | RACHEL METZ | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Internet Sales Tax, Amazon.com, Sales Tax, California Taxes, Amazon, Los Angeles News

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc. wants California voters to decide whether to overturn a new law that forces online retailers to collect sales ta...

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Amazon Cuts Off Arkansas Affiliates

Connecticut Post | NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Arkansas, Amazon Arkansas, Mike Beebe, Amazon Sales Tax, Sales Tax, Wal-Mart, University of Tennessee, Amazon, Books News

Amazon.com said Friday that it would drop its online affiliates in Arkansas in response to a new state law that would have required the online retaile...

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OECD: Tax Hike In Japan Will Help Economy During Recovery

AP | By JACOB ADELMAN | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Deficit, Recovery, Japan Earthquake, Japan Education, Japan Economy, Sales Tax, Corporate Tax Decrease, Gross Domestic Product, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Oecd, Business News

TOKYO -- Japan should as much as quadruple its sales tax rate to deal with a crushing deficit that's bound to grow as it spends on reconstruction from...

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Explaining Taxes

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Taxes, Social Security, Lobbying, Politicians, Stocks, Congress, Business, Lobbyist, Income Tax, Progressive, Bribe, Tax, Corporations, Capital Gains, Sales Tax, Gulliver, Politics News

The concept of taxes, of course, is pretty easy to explain. Except when you look at it too closely.

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How To Balance the Budget in One Easy Step

Raymond Griffith | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Taxes, Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Speculation, Derivatives, Stock Market, Tax Revenues, Sales Tax, Leverage, Business News

OK. I am going to start out by admitting that I am not an economist. Like most people, I hadn't heard about derivatives, securities or exotic financia...

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Wal-Mart Wants You to Pay Online Sales Tax

Al Norman | Posted 06.10.2011

Read More: Target, National Retailers Federation, Wal-Mart, Sales Tax, Affiliate Networks, Mayberry, Amazon.com, Main Street Fairness Act, Rfd, Wal-Mart Sales Tax, Business News

Giant retailers like Wal-Mart and Target are using mom and pop stores as human shields in their battle against Amazon.com over taxing online sales.

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Amazon Faces State Pressure To Collect Sales Tax

The New York Times | Verne G. Kopytoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business News, Online Sales Tax, Amazon.com, Sales Tax, Pat Quinn, Amazon.com Sales Tax, Business News

SAN FRANCISCO -- Across the country, state officials struggling with big budget shortfalls are trying to get Amazon.com to take on a role it does not ...

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Amazon Tax: $150 Million Windfall, Or Job-Killing Promise?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amazon Tax, Pat Quinn, Poll, Illinois Sales Tax, Chicago, Illinois, Sales Tax, Illinois Amazon Tax, Amazon Affiliates, Chicago News

On Thursday, Governor Quinn signed a measure he called the "Mainstreet Fairness Act," levying a new set of taxes on online retailers. Depending on who...

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Judge Blocks Colorado's Online Sales Tax Law

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Online Sales Tax, Direct Marketing Association, Sales Tax, Amazon Tax, Colorado, Denver News

DENVER — A federal judge has granted a request to block a Colorado law affecting larger out-of-state, online retailers. The law would require s...

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Voters Reject Initiative To Raise Taxes On Washington's Top 1 Percent

AP | CURT WOODWARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Taxes, Washington State, Income Taxes, Initiative 1098, Jeff Bezos, I-1098, Elections 2010, Washington, Tax Reform, Sales Tax, Millionaires Tax, Politics News

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington voters have rejected a state income tax on its top 1 percent of earners that supporters said would have raised billi...

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Second Group Of Deficit Hawks Calls For Regressive National Sales Tax

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit Hawks, Deficit, Budget Deficit, Sales Tax, Deficit Taxes, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The nation and its workers remain in grave economic distress, but it's a bull market for alarmist Washington insiders coming up with dra...

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Chicago's Sales Tax Tied With LA For Highest In America

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Sales Tax, Chicago Sales Tax, Illinois, Highest Sales Tax in America, Sales Tax, Highest Sales Tax, Chicago, Chicago News

Chicago's budget is in dire straits. The city will face a massive budget deficit -- at least $655 million, and likely more -- in the coming year, and ...

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The Cost of Taxing Nonprofits

Gordon Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Payroll Tax, Taxes, United Way, Debt, Tax Increase, Budget, Nonprofits, Nonprofit, United Way of NYC, Sales Tax, Not for Profits, Recession, New York City, New York, New York News

By imposing new taxes on nonprofits, I fear that policy-makers have forgotten why the tax exemption was put in place: nonprofits provide a service that relieves the burden on others.

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Sales Tax Holiday Plan Moving Through Illinois Legislature Despite Budget Crisis

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois Sales Tax, Chicago, Illinois Budget 2010, Illinois Budget, Illinois, Illinois Budget Crisis, Sales Tax, Sales Tax Holiday, Illinois Sales Tax Holiday, Chicago News

As the state of Illinois ponders drastic cutbacks, tax increases and massive borrowing to close its cavernous $13 billion budget gap, lawmakers are lo...

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