State Income Tax

This column was originally published Dec. 9, 2012 'Tis the season for trophies, tip-ins, trimming the tree, traveling to the mall and ... thinking about taxes! As we begin the 11th year of Tax Talk, our focus will be on providing enlightening...

As taxation and other costs go up in California, one place is looking better and better: Walla Walla. Moving to the eastern Washington town of some 32,000 — where you can rent a mansion for $2,500 a month, have a short commute and not pay state...

With state income taxes rising and the federal government's “fiscal cliff” looming, La Cañada school officials have agreed not to place a parcel tax before La Cañada Flintridge voters next year. La Cañadans currently pay $150 per parcel to...

More than two years ago, Florida lawmakers agreed to pay CSX Corp. more than $400 million to acquire the tracks needed for Central Florida's planned SunRail commuter train. As part of the deal, CSX said it would reinvest the money in several rail projects...

This Wednesday's planned opening of the half-billion-dollar Maryland Live! Casino at Arundel Mills marks a red-letter day in Maryland gaming history. The scale of the enormous, 330,000-square-foot facility is stunning: It will eventually house 4,750...

   A York City woman is indicted on charges of conspiring to submit false and fradulent federal income tax returns.  The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania claims that between January 1, 2009 through June 1, 2009, 35 year old Carmen...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Legislation that would lower the state’s income tax rate to 3.9 percent by 2018 was approved Thursday by the Michigan House, though the Senate likely won’t take it up until later this year as the two chambers wind...

A tax management program will be offered to producers and tax preparers from 9 a.m. to noon CST on Friday, Nov. 30, at 11 interactive video sites in North Dakota. The program is sponsored by the North Dakota State University Extension Service and...

The day Gov. Jerry Brown took office in 2011, the state budget was more than $25 billion in the red — the latest installment in a long-running drama of boom-and-bust budgeting. Since then, lawmakers have slashed billions of dollars from education,...

Obamacare, same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization dominated the hot-button ballot initiatives before voters in a number of states on Tuesday. A key component of President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law is on the line in a...

MEET THE CANDIDATES   When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...

In the great pile of email that arrived after last Sunday's column on millionaires who whine about "class warfare," there were numerous defenses of wealthy "job creators like Mitt Romney," and an equal number of attacks on "liberals like President Obama"...