• Senate panel to discuss state budget as conflict over Medicaid tax continues

    A big task awaits the Missouri Senate as the upper chamber plans to address the state budget this week.

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    House Ways and Means Committee Budget Boosts Haverhill’s Allocation of State Education Aid

    While it won’t plug a looming revenue shortfall, Haverhill could receive $5.3 million more in state education aid over last year if the House Ways and Means Committee gets its way. The House last week proposed a formula that would give Haverhill $88 million in so-called Chapter 70 aid compared with $82.6 million in the […] The post House Ways and Means Committee Budget Boosts Haverhill’s Allocation of State Education Aid first appeared on WHAV.

  • As California Voters Sour on Cash Reparations, State Dems Push Subsidized Property Taxes and Expedited Business Licenses Instead

    California Democrats are finding ways to make reparations to black descendants of slaves that don’t include direct cash payments, as voters overwhelmingly reject the idea of money handouts. Instead, they are moving ahead with ideas like subsidized property taxes and expedited business licenses–which experts say may violate constitutional guarantees of equal treatment.

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    Biden's 2025 Budget proposal seeks to tax capital gains at 45%, eliminate crypto tax loopholes

    The Kitco News Team brings you the latest news, videos, analysis and opinions regarding Precious Metals, Crypto, Mining, World Markets and Global Economy.

  • Property taxes collected

    Madera County Treasurer-Tax Collector Tracy Kenney announced that more than $70 million in property tax payments were collected and posted within the last 10 days of the April 10 deadline. “This fiscal year, we have processed more than 130,000 installments, collecting more than $250 million in current secured and supplemental taxes,” Kennedy said. Kennedy is also pleased to report that all payments were posted and balanced by April 12. The revenue from property taxes are used for funding local...

  • State Budget Passed in NY

    Legislative leaders pass a record 237-Billion-dollar state budget. Along with record spending for education and initiative to build new housing, the budget deal also gives the Governor the go-ahead to close up to 5 more State Prisons, which is a major concern for North Country Assemblyman Billy Jones and State Senator Dan Stec.

  • Get Ready To Be Hammered By Property Taxes

    Get Ready To Be Hammered By Property Taxes It's not just record capital gains taxes that Americans have to look forward to if they choose "4 more years, pause" of the senile occupant in the White House: As Epoch Times' Jeffrey Tucker reports, property taxes are also about to soar. Below we excerpt from his latest report on where the Biden tax tsunami sill strike next: Get Ready to Be Hammered by Property Taxes There have been very few points of financial solace in the past few...

  • Welcome to the United States House of Parliament

    Mike Johnson (R-La.) starts this week looking less like speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and more like a European prime minister. Partisan politics, at least as they’ve been understood in the United States, are flipped on their head. Johnson’s plan to sacrifice American border security to pass $95 billion in foreign aid is on its way to the Senate, powered by a coalition of House Republican and Democrat appropriators, and over the objections of both his voters and the majority of...

  • Report: Iowa's housing market more affordable than other states

    (The Center Square) - Iowa's housing market is the 17th most competitive in the country, according to a new study released Thursday by the Common Sense Institute of Iowa. The Iowa Housing Competitiveness Index is based on four factors, the organization said: "The percentage of permits as a share of the housing deficit/surplus; the housing deficit/surplus as a percentage of the population; the hours required to pay a monthly mortgage; and the number of hours of work required to...

  • Accused squatter rented out rooms in owner's house

    An update to the story on the Queens homeowner that was arrested after confronting an accused squatter.

  • Alderman Won Office Owing Property Taxes

    DiAndre Jackson has since paid off 2022 taxes but still owes for 2023.

  • Budget Deal Reached in New York State

    Governor Hochul and & legislative leaders agree on a tentative 237-billion-dollar State Budget deal. The agreement includes renewed subsidies for developers to build new housing in New York City and additional tenant protections. Pro-housing communities, like the Town of Plattsburgh, will share 650-million-dollars to help build new homes. Another half-billion dollars will be used for housing on state-owned sites, including former prisons. No word yet whether that could include the former Moriah...