Fairfax voters will consider this fall whether to approve Measure J, a $18 million bond measure to raise funds for road repairs, and Measure H, which would lead to the appointment of town clerk. Both measures will be on the Nov. 5 ballot. Mayor Barbara Coler said it is “critical that our road bond measure
The election prospects of former President Donald Trump are already having an effect on the markets. So-called Trump trades, a series of investments set to pay off should he get reelected, have started to unwind, according to a recent note from investment bank Macquarie. One of the most prominent of such trades has been a
California lawmakers are one step closer to making hundreds of millions of taxpayer-funded home loans available to residents living in the country illegally. Democrats on the California Senate Appropriations Committee late last week unanimously approved AB 1840 to move forward, according to an official vote tally for the legislation. The bill has one last chance to be
Drone shot of the sate capitol in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. (Nebraska Examiner, Getty Images) LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — The Nebraska Legislature advanced a property tax relief package on Tuesday, but it looks a lot different than the original proposal. Lawmakers voted 36-8 to send the latest version of Legislative Bill 34 to the second round
Martin Kidston (Missoula Current) The City of Missoula saw a slight increase in newly taxable value this year, though it’s not enough to overcome the state’s growing reliance on residential property taxes to pay for basic services, officials said Wednesday. City CAO Dale Bickell said the figures released this week by the Montana Department Revenue
An end to the formal session on Beacon Hill left Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s property tax plan in question. “I can’t overemphasize how important this is for the city,” Wu told NBC10 Boston. Empty office buildings are causing commercial property values to plummet and creating a revenue vacuum that without action, would fall on Boston
Capital gains is the fastest growing income class in India; it deserves to be taxed at a higher rate, on the grounds of raising revenues for the government as well as equity and fairness, Dr TV Somanathan, Finance Secretary, said today. Also watch: Union Finance Secretary Dr TV Somanathan on conservative nature of the Budget In
Finance ministers from leading rich and developing nations have agreed to strive toward effectively taxing the super-rich By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press July 26, 2024, 5:55 PM ET • 3 min read RIO DE JANEIRO — Finance ministers from leading rich and developing nations agreed Friday to strive toward effectively taxing the super-rich, a joint
It’s not every day that a firm tells shareholders to disavow any and all comments from its parent company’s largest shareholder and CEO. But that’s exactly what Pershing Square USA, Ltd., did on Thursday when it threw Wall Street speculator Bill Ackman under the bus. In a letter marketing his new closed-end activist hedge fund to
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – A group of state senators will hold a public forum here Sunday ahead of an expected special session next week. The community meetings will be held in Omaha and Lincoln, which weren’t stops on Gov. Jim Pillen’s tax plan town hall tour across the state this summer — though he did