Posts tagged Taxes
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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…
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Breakfast links: Ultra news
Ultra power for streetcars?; Gabe speaks; Historic easements preserved; I’m a minority; MPD agrees with Capital City complaint; Developers want out of ag reserve requirements; Would huge underground garages reduce traffic?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cutting back and cutting through
Cherry blossoms without Circulation; More park, less cut-through in SF; Dulles taxis unpopular; A tale of two Safeways; Parking far more subsidized; San Jose rail light but not rapid; Everybody wants the TIGER. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Outdoor people and places
Car-Free photos; Anti H Street festival; Better pictures of the huge bike; High taxes for blight but not vacancy; MWAA now a road-widening agency?; A little relief on BRAC; NTSB: Fix the mystery track circuits; Grants grants grants; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links I: Park and ride
No parking including city employees; Enforcing on the enforcers; Parking tickets aren’t taxes; Pay to valet; Krugman looks where Samuelson doesn’t; What’s really inefficient is freeway building; Baltimore testing smartcard; If you’re happy and you know it ride the train. Keep reading…
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Expand the sales tax to selected services instead of raising rates
When you buy a brush to groom your dog, you pay DC sales tax. But if you take your dog to get groomed, you pay… Keep reading…
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Revenue increases should also internalize environmental externalities
This week, the DC Council will decide how to close a $190 million shortfall in the FY2009 budget, and discuss how to begin tackling the additional $150 million projected gap for 2010. Lawmakers are inevitably going to look for a mix of spending cuts and revenue increases. This morning, Jenny Reed suggested ending the special tax exemption for other states’ municipal bonds as… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Round and round the debate goes
Reengineer the city around cars, or…; Rounder, safer, better; Cheap gas = obesity; Blumenauer pushing green commuting incentives; Too expensive to serve the poor; Co-op living, corporation tax structure; Stop giving money to gas guzzling states. Keep reading…