Posts tagged Taxes
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Give me a break: Tax incentives should be regional, not local
Yesterday, the DC Council approved a $6 million tax break for CoStar to move from downtown Bethesda to DC. To address criticism from small businesses and nonprofits that moving CoStar wouldn’t actually create new DC jobs since Bethesda is right on the Metro, the Council added several amendments to the deal. They now have to add 100 new jobs for DC residents, hire DC residents… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Contact your representatives
Ask to be heard; Transit projects create more jobs; Dog owner tax break?; Photoshopped ad deceptive or thrifty?; Train fatality in BaltCo. Keep reading…
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Whiny press abandons all analysis when it comes to fees
Reporters try to present arguments objectively and fairly, but that doesn’t seem to extend to fees, tolls, and taxes, when it’s apparently totally fine to write an article for a professional newspaper talking about how much a new charge “sucks.” Either that, or else during the holiday break, all the good reporters and editors go on vacation. Those… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Ending the year, beginning construction
MARC explains why not; Top ten for transit; Killed in Columbia Heights, injured in Rockville; Great Streets construction; Free speech on the Metrobus; Metro and the federal government, together forever; Tax abatements for Donatelli. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Spiral up, not down
Death spiral alert; Improve buses instead of creating new ones; Be Montgomery Planning Board Chair; Fairfax creates Dulles rail tax district; How to fight a project; Gun + snowballs = “inappropriate”; Let me off the plane. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The official word
Bus changes; Bikes exist, say national standards; On streetcars; SmartBenefits postponement official; Toll vote today; Get a boost from a bike wheel; Springfield Mall still moving. Keep reading…
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Late breakfast links: Movers and shakers
Streetcars make landfall; Know where you are on H; Bubble in a donut; Bye bye billboards; Tax break narrowly approved; Hit-and-run? Oh well; Over in federal-land; And of course. Keep reading…
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Will tax incentives make food deserts bloom?
With hunger spreading across America at levels unseen since the Great Depression and with low-income urban communities continuing to be disproportionately affected by a lack of access to healthy food, many are asking questions about the best way to reach communities without adequate food sources. One option that has been tried in many places, including Washington, DC, is… Keep reading…
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Is Metro misinterpreting IRS rules on SmartBenefits?
Metro officials will be answering tough questions about the upcoming SmartBenefits change at tonight’s Riders’ Advisory Council meeting and tomorrow’s Board meeting. Last week, they announced that beginning January 1st, SmartTrip will contain three “bins”: one for fare money you put on the card directly from a machine, and one each for… Keep reading…
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Combined reporting levels the tax playing field for local businesses
Should a local, DC-based business pay higher tax rates than a branch of a national retailer? Of course, the answer is no. But that is precisely what has been happening. National corporations can employ complicated tax-avoidance strategies to artificially shift profits they earn in DC to places with lower taxes or no taxes at all. That gives them a distinct and unfair advantage… Keep reading…