Tag: Taxes

According to congressional testimony by owners of trucking companies and the American Trucking Associations, beginning around 2000, revenue agents from New Jersey's department of taxation began waylaying trucks, demanding that the owners pay the states's $1,100 minimum corporate-franchise tax before letting the drivers proceed.

Beltway Confidential

Congress needs to stop state tax shakedowns

Michael Barone · February 9, 2014 5:00 am

Marijuana farmers unlikely to see farm tax perks

Marijuana farmers unlikely to see farm tax perks

Washington Examiner · February 9, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., shown here on June 6 on Capitol Hill in Washington, is the incoming chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Sen. Ron Wyden gives tax overhaul top priority

Associated Press · February 8, 2014 5:00 am

Tax breaks for developers may be sweetened

Tax breaks for developers may be sweetened

Washington Examiner · February 6, 2014 9:28 pm

French leader in push to up Internet firms’ taxes

French leader in push to up Internet firms’ taxes

Sylvie Corbet · February 6, 2014 8:24 pm

Washington looks at ending oil refinery tax break

Washington looks at ending oil refinery tax break

Mike Baker · February 6, 2014 8:23 pm

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., voted for the farm bill last week after voting against it last year. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Farm subsidies, political leverage, and the ratchet of statism

Timothy P. Carney · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

From left, Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of King Street Patriots; Cleta Mitchell, Partner Foley and Lardner LLP; Becky Gerritson, founder and President Wetumpka Tea Party, Inc.; and Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel American Center for Law and Justice, are sworn-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. prior to testifying before the House subcommittee on Economic Growth subcommittee's hearing investigating the Justice Department's investigation into the IRS abuse scandal. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Tea Party groups tell Congress IRS harassment continues

Mark Tapscott · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

Then-President Ronald Reagan speaks from his White House office in January 1987. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

Mourning under Obama for Reagan’s ‘Morning in America’

Ashley Pratte · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Top Dem wants to ‘kidnap’ tax foe Grover Norquist to help win new gas tax

Paul Bedard · February 4, 2014 5:00 am

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback delivers his State of the State speech to an annual joint session of the House and Senate at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Kansas Insurance Department seeking increased fees

Washington Examiner · February 3, 2014 5:00 am

In this April 17, 2011 photo, construction continues on a new home in Newtown, Pa., as a moving van finishes unloading at a newly completed home. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

The numbers show DC theory colliding with reality in America

Scott Rasmussen · February 2, 2014 5:00 am