Sales taxes
Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press Jun. 28, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Cleveland Plain Dealer. June 27, 2021. Editorial: Ohio lawmakers should resist urge to score political points by cutting income tax ...

Top Democratic lawmaker nixes Baker's sales-tax free plan

By Steve Leblanc Jun. 25, 2021 03:54 PM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — The top Democrat in the Massachusetts Senate on Friday dismissed a proposal by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker to expand the state’s annual two-day...

Baker files legislation proposing 2-month sales tax holiday

Jun. 23, 2021 03:57 PM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday proposed expanding the state's annual two-day sales tax holiday to a two-month event this year in an effort to...

Louisiana state senators surround Senate President Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, third from the left, to talk through the remaining financial deals awaiting votes on the legislative session, Thursday, June 10, 2021, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
Louisiana session ends in flurry of tax and financial votes

By Melinda Deslatte Jun. 10, 2021 09:57 AM EDT

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at Steelcase in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Monday, May 24, 2021. It was the first day Steelcase is having many of their employees back in the office since the coronavirus pandemic started, thanks to the new MIOSHA rules that changed today, allowing non-essential workers to come back to offices. (Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
Bills nearing Whitmer exempt businesses from taxes on PPE

By David Eggert Jun. 02, 2021 01:31 PM EDT

Florida governor signs 'tax holidays' into law

May. 21, 2021 12:50 PM EDT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSatis agreed to temporarily suspend sales taxes on back-to-school supplies, emergency preparedness purchases and...

Missouri set to require online stores to collect taxes

By Summer Ballentine May. 14, 2021 02:26 PM EDT
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is set to become the last state to require out-of-state online stores to collect sales taxes on residents' purchases after...

King County to buy hotels to permanently house 1,600 people

May. 11, 2021 08:01 PM EDT
SEATTLE (AP) — King County will buy a hotel that has been housing people who are homeless in Seattle for roughly a year as well as four or five other hotels in...

Beshear: Kentucky collected record sales tax revenues

By Bruce Schreiner May. 07, 2021 11:18 AM EDT
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky collected record amounts of sales tax revenues in April, reflecting growing consumer spending in another sign of economic...

Capital projects, sales tax holiday: $42.6B Tennessee budget

By Jonathan Mattise May. 01, 2021 08:07 AM EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's upcoming state budget is one signature by the governor away from becoming law, including a one-week sales tax holiday on...

Senate President Wilton Simpson, left, and Speaker of the House Chris Sprowls smile as they speak with members of the media after the end of a legislative session, Friday, April 30, 2021, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
COVID? What COVID? Florida passes $101.5 B budget

By Brendan Farrington Apr. 30, 2021 05:11 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Tennessee

By The Associated Press Apr. 28, 2021 01:30 PM EDT
Kingsport Times News. April 25, 2021. Editorial: Give tax relief to those who need it most Tennessee continues to be...

Editorial Roundup: West Virginia

By The Associated Press Apr. 14, 2021 08:22 AM EDT
Recent editorials from West Virginia newspapers: ___ April 14 The Intelligencer on a remote worker...

Tennessee eyes 2-week tax holiday for restaurants, groceries

By Kimberlee Kruesi And Jonathan Mattise Apr. 13, 2021 12:47 PM EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is proposing a $100 million, two-week sales tax holiday on restaurants, bars and groceries, as his...

Assembly OKs Republican COVID spending plan; Evers vows veto

By Todd Richmond Apr. 13, 2021 10:49 AM EDT
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Assembly Republicans took another step Tuesday toward ripping control of billions of dollars in federal pandemic aid from Democratic Gov....

Florida House OK's bill to tax out-of-state online sales

By Bobby Caina Calvan Apr. 08, 2021 01:55 PM EDT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida moved closer Thursday in requiring online retailers and other out-of-state merchants to collect sales tax, a step that could...

Editorial Roundup: Missouri

By The Associated Press Mar. 23, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. March 21, 2021. Editorial: Missouri lawmaker’s police-dog bill deserves to go nowhere For the...

FILE - Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly speaks to reporters during a news conference, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Responding to concerns from state officials, the U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday, March 17, 2021 that states can cut taxes without penalty under a new federal pandemic relief law — so long as they use their own funds to do so. Kelly, who vetoed two GOP tax-cutting bills in 2019, welcomed the restrictions on using federal pandemic aid to offset state tax cuts. She said Kansas is still “digging out” from several years of budget shortfalls that followed a tax-cutting experiment in 2012-13 under Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
Treasury says state tax cuts OK if separated from virus aid

By David A. Lieb Mar. 17, 2021 05:02 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Mississippi

By The Associated Press Mar. 10, 2021 07:11 AM EST
Recent editorials from Mississippi newspapers: ___ March 10 The Greenwood Commonwealth on a bill...

Editorial Roundup: Idaho

By The Associated Press Feb. 25, 2021 12:23 PM EST
Recent editorials from Idaho newspapers: Standing up for you is no longer good politics Feb. 25 ...