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Tag Archives: Taxes and Fees

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Roper: Massive property tax increase on the horizon

While these increases are extreme due to the pandemic, they are part of a long-term trend of unsustainably high property taxes, growing every year, to fund ever higher school spending that serves fewer and fewer students.

December 4, 2020 in Commentary.
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Flemming: Montpelier spending may soon cost taxpayers more money

Vermont’s general obligation debt and the Vermont State College bonds outstanding each had a “stable” outlook after being downgraded from AAA in 2018, but both were changed to a negative outlook after a press release last week.

November 22, 2020 in Commentary.
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Biden’s gun registration tax could cost firearms owners billions

President-elect Joe Biden’s proposed firearm tax could cost gun owners upwards of $30 billion to keep the weapons they already possess, according to The Washington Free Beacon.

November 19, 2020 in U.S..
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New Hampshire could consider lowering rooms and meals tax to spark tourism industry

A potential decrease in the state’s rooms and meals tax could make New Hampshire more competitive in the New England tourism industry, but a percentage and timeline have not been determined.

November 1, 2020 in U.S..
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Trump considers a cut in the capital gains tax

Investment income is taxed twice: once when you earn it as wages, and a second time on any investment earnings. If your money is invested in a corporation, the corporate income tax takes another slice of your investment.

August 17, 2020 in Commentary.
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Ferron Wambold: Robbing Peter to pay Paul

We need to quit robbing Peter to pay Paul, because I think we can all see the writing on the wall. We’re looking at higher taxes to refill these gaps.

June 23, 2020 in Commentary.
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Tax Foundation: Taxing marijuana isn’t a solution to long-term budget problems

“Taxing by price may not be stable, taxing by weight could encourage use of high potency products, and taxing by potency could complicate tax collection and add significant costs to both tax collectors and industry,” Boesen said.

June 21, 2020 in U.S..
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Roper: Democrat candidates pushing unrealistic tax increases

Vermont’s grotesque tax burden was a big reason why our state never really recovered from the Great Recession. This doubling down on a failed policy prescription will ensure an even greater failure to recover from this recession.

June 4, 2020 in Commentary.
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Neil Johnson: Taxing Vermont to prosperity

Let’s tax PACs and lobbyists. Taxing would be good for revenue, good for our state, and good for our citizens and republic. Vermont could tax its way to freedom and lead the nation by doing so. What should we call this tax?

May 27, 2020 in Commentary.
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McClaughry: The endless tax on your power bill

The lead bill to glide through the Senate was S.337, which would allow Energy Efficiency Vermont and Burlington Electric the authority to spend some of their ratepayer tax funds on transportation and heating efficiency projects.

May 21, 2020 in Commentary.
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Roper: Vermont legislators considering a bevy of new taxes

As Vermonters and the businesses that employ us struggle to get back to some sort of economic normalcy, the Vermont House Ways and Means Committee is contemplating raising $167 million in new taxes to offset lost revenue for the Education Fund.

May 15, 2020 in Commentary.
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Vermont’s state revenue down 57% for the month of April

April is the first full month of revenue collections since a state of emergency was declared by Gov. Scott, and the subsequent mitigation “Stay Home Stay Safe” order was issued on March 24. April revenues collected were predictably and dramatically under the consensus forecast for the month.

May 8, 2020 in Press Release.

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