Gov. Tim Walz Raised Taxes as Most Governors Cut Them

Gov. Tim Walz Raised Taxes as Most Governors Cut Them

Tim Walz Tax Policies: Details & Analysis Skip to content Home • Blog • Gov. Tim Walz Raised Taxes as Most Governors Cut Them Most states have cut taxes at least once since 2021, with a renewed emphasis on taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from … Read more

How a Washington Tax Break for Data Centers Snowballed Into One of the State’s Biggest Corporate Giveaways

How a Washington Tax Break for Data Centers Snowballed Into One of the State’s Biggest Corporate Giveaways

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Seattle Times. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Reporting Highlights Job Promises: Washington lawmakers approved a tax break for data centers to create more jobs in rural Washington, but they can’t say … Read more

Power Hungry: Was one of WA’s biggest corporate tax breaks worth the cost?

Power Hungry: Was one of WA’s biggest corporate tax breaks worth the cost?

POWER HUNGRY | Second in a Seattle Times and ProPublica series about the impact of data centers in Washington. This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Seattle Times. Times Watchdog stories dig deep to hold power accountable, right wrongs and create change. This work is made possible by The … Read more

Decrease in Arkansas Income and Corporate Taxes Allow for State’s Further Economic Growth

Decrease in Arkansas Income and Corporate Taxes Allow for State's Further Economic Growth

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The most recent reduction in tax was in the General Assembly’s Special Session in June of this year. The top corporate tax was reduced from 4.8% to 4.3%, as well as the individual income tax rate being reduced from 4.9% to 3.9%.The Arkansas General Assembly and Governor Sanders have passed three … Read more

US Big Tech Companies’ Complicated Role in Ireland’s Booming Economy

US Big Tech Companies’ Complicated Role in Ireland’s Booming Economy

Google’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images Ireland, despite its small land size and population, is among the wealthiest countries in the world. The island nation boasted a GDP per capita of $104,270 in 2023, according to the IMF, next only to Luxembourg and higher than the U.S., Switzerland, Singapore and … Read more

Zero corporate tax for 15 years for SEZ businesses

Zero corporate tax for 15 years for SEZ businesses

ONE of the financial incentives for businesses with a permit to operate within a special economic zone is non-payment of corporate tax for 15 years, according to the Special Economic Zone Authority (SEZA). Board Director Vera Raga when giving a presentation during the Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry (POMCCI) breakfast yesterday highlighted that … Read more

Montana’s housing crisis is a warning for older homeowners across the country

Montana's housing crisis is a warning for older homeowners across the country

Economy Montana’s housing crisis is a warning for older homeowners across the country Eliza Relman 2024-07-10T09:56:03Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. Email Twitter icon A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting. Twitter LinkedIn … Read more

MSP, loan waiver and crop insurance, crucial issues for farmers

MSP, loan waiver and crop insurance, crucial issues for farmers

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance faced huge setbacks in the Lok Sabha elections in the agrarian belts of the country. The BJP lost in at least 38 seats in five States where the farmers’ movement against the policies of the Narendra Modi government was strong. This government is a continuation of the first … Read more

Furniture imports hit Sh8.7bn, defying steep President Ruto taxes

Furniture imports hit Sh8.7bn, defying steep President Ruto taxes

Expenditure on furniture ordered from foreign countries by Kenyan traders and households has continued to grow by double-digit rates despite increased taxation and government directives requiring agencies to cut imports. About Sh8.69 billion was spent on furniture, beddings, mattresses, and furnishes in the nine months through March 2024 following the application of 45 percent import … Read more

Government’s budgetary position impossible without windfall corporate tax

Government’s budgetary position impossible without windfall corporate tax

The Government would be running a budget deficit for the 18th consecutive year in 2024 were it not for windfall corporate tax receipts.That sequence stretches all the way back to the financial crisis, a time when the crumbling Irish financial system was the focus of European policymakers, not just Irish ones.Remove the windfall component of … Read more