Posts tagged Taxes
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Breakfast links: Attention deficit
MATD?; Unsafety in College Park; Fairfax County City?; Metro bits; Council clippings; Cities growing, but anti-city assumptions still exist in reporters’ heads. Keep reading…
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What’s a tax, what’s a fee, and what’s just a shell game
According to the City Paper, the DC Council has removed the “streetlight fee,” and will find $12 million elsewhere. The “fee” would have charged electric customers a flat rate of $4.25 a month for residential customers, $16.75 a month for commercial customers, and $42 a month for others. Keep reading…
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Morning links: A sometimes merry land
Support the Pike; From Secretary to Deputy Secretary; Wider, wider, wider; Planner argues stadium opponents missing the point; Crash means holes in the ground; Back in brick; Don’t drink and bike in Poland; Police fee? Streetlight fee? Why not a congestion fee?; The simple answer: Eliminate public transportation. Keep reading…
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Equalize online and offline sales taxes
Maryland lawmakers have proposed imposing sales taxes on certain Internet referral transactions. Currently, online retailers aren’t required to collect state sales tax unless they operate physical places of business in that state. People are supposed to calculate the tax themselves and pay it to the state government, but most don’t and many don’t even know… Keep reading…
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Encourage renting and mobility to reduce sprawl
Since the end of World War II, homeownership has been the very embodiment of the American Dream. A variety of government policies and programs have dramatically increased home ownership. But lately, some have been advocating that the government stop subsidizing home ownership, arguing that it locks people to a place, and when the economy goes sour people need the flexibility to… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: avarice and indifference
Want potholes fixed? Pay taxes! After the Post published a letter from an Arlington car commuter complaining about potholes, commenters quickly suggested he also complain that Virginia keeps all his tax money even though he earns it in, and uses roads in, the District. Mike Licht collected the best ones. Tip: Bianchi. Keep reading…
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Gandhi fails to impress at DCCA
I expected to find a confident, intelligent financial manager with a through grasp of DC finannces in DC CFO Natwar Gandhi when he spoke at the Dupont Circle Citizens’ Association meeting on Monday. What I discovered was a confident, intelligent financial manager who dodged almost every question and didn’t seem to know quite as much about DC’s financial situation… Keep reading…
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Police, prosecutors in Wisconsin town say cyclists have no right to the road
The bailout bill that recently passed the Senate contains a host of little tax provisions. One of them extends the commuter tax benefit to bicycling. Qualified benefits include: Keep reading…
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Dinner links: The many faces of government edition
Meet the bubble bus: WMATA released images of their new Metrobuses, slated for service in August. DCist has more. Keep reading…