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North Carolina's tax reform package, cutting the personal income tax rate, is the most significant plan likely to be approved in 2013, an analyst with...
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 @ 9:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A top legislative architect of the General Assembly's tax reform efforts said Wednesday that both House and Senate leaders are at the negotiating...
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Life, the old saying goes, is best thought of as a journey, not a destination. When it comes to reforming North Carolina's tax code, however, I'd say the reverse...
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2013 @ 11:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When is a sales-tax increase not really a sales-tax increase? If you want to make sense of the contrasting claims about tax reform in North Carolina, this is one...
Published: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 @ 2:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate has passed something called "The Marketplace Fairness Act." Sounds nice, doesn't it? Who doesn't like making stuff FAIR?
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2013 @ 11:38 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Senate leaders used a Tuesday press conference to announce their long-awaited tax proposal, a proposal that would lower personal and corporate income tax...
Published: Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 @ 9:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After receiving several pieces of mail addressed to four different persons at his home address on Sherron Road, and seeing strange people checking mailboxes on his street, a Durham resident concluded someone was using his mailbox in a tax-fraud scheme.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Tax Foundation last week unveiled its latest installment of its annual State Business Tax Climate Index for 2012. Unsurprisingly, North Carolina remained far down the list, coming in a dismal 44 – making our state the 7th worst in the nation.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2013 @ 9:21 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A change in North Carolina's tax code is coming this year. The most likely outcome will be a reduction in the reliance on our state's income taxes and more of a reliance on an expanded sales tax.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 8:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory Tuesday signed into law a bill that would rework the state's unemployment insurance system.
Published: Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 @ 11:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is one talking point that has become the go-to objection to eliminating North Carolina's state income taxes and replacing the revenue by expanding the sales tax: "This will shift the tax burden from the rich and onto the backs of the poor!"
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2013 @ 6:34 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As you may know, the John Locke Foundation has just published a new book - First in Freedom: Transforming Ideas into Consequences for North Carolina - that proposes a new tax system for our state.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2013 @ 5:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nov. 6 turned out to be a good day -- mostly -- for supporters of local bond referendums throughout North Carolina. Supporters of local sales tax increases across the state met with less success.
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2012 @ 1:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The need to reform North Carolina's tax structure is urgent. Our state's economy continues to struggle, suffering from a 9.7 unemployment rate - fifth highest in the nation
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2012 @ 2:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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While there's no statewide referendum for North Carolina voters to decide during the Nov. 6 general election, citizens across the state will have the task of deciding 27 separate local ballot issues.
Published: Saturday, October 13th, 2012 @ 5:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While increasing dependency on government is a very real problem, with both economic and political consequences, it cannot be measured effectively by annual income-tax statistics. Taxation is a process, not an event.
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2012 @ 12:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In March 2012, a new survey of the state line separating North and South Carolina resulted in 93 property owners being sent, as it were, into the other state.
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 @ 7:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During President Obama's much-criticized "you didn't build that" speech last month in Roanoke, Va., his main point seemed to be that if you are successful in business you didn't do it alone.
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2012 @ 10:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's tax on retail sales needs reforming. At the present time, there exists a hodgepodge of taxes on consumption and sales that show very little consistency or forethought.
Published: Monday, August 20th, 2012 @ 2:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Question for Mitt Romney: When you worked at Bain did the company do your taxes or did you take your W-2s, 1099s and whatever other "tax" documents you received to a CPA who prepared your taxes??
Published: Sunday, August 19th, 2012 @ 8:31 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Did you venture out to purchase school supplies for your aspiring young scholar during our state's tax-free weekend? Or, perhaps your child's school days have long passed and you simply wanted to acquire a new computer without incurring a sales tax.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2012 @ 10:34 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Most people have heard the story of the little boy who cried wolf when there was no wolf. Now might be a good time for Pryor Gibson to revisit Aesop's Fables or the older quotes that bear witness to the same thought: when you make a habit of not telling the truth, people tend not to believe you.
Published: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 @ 8:28 am
By: Fern Shubert
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Wake County's decision not to put a half-cent sales tax referendum on the Nov. 6 general election ballot "is troubling" to Durham County officials, and will affect how they move forward with a tri-county regional transit plan featuring a mixture of light rail and expanded bus service.
Published: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 @ 1:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some three dozen people delivered impassioned pleas Monday afternoon to the Wake County Board of Commissioners, urging them to place a half-cent sales tax on the November ballot.
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 @ 8:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Orange County voters will decide the fate of a nearly $1.4 billion light rail project for Durham and Orange counties in the Nov. 6 general election.
Published: Sunday, June 10th, 2012 @ 11:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's a bipartisan move afoot to cap North Carolina's tax on motor fuels at 37.5 cents a gallon this year, along with some political discussion about cutting the gas tax further in future years.
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2012 @ 10:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Consider these two facts. First, most net job creation in any modern economy comes from new companies, typically small firms that grow quickly.
Published: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The three-quarter-cent sales tax centerpiece of Gov. Bev Perdue's $20.9 billion budget proposal would be used to hire more teachers and launch jobs programs, but is a "non-starter" for Republican leaders.
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2012 @ 9:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We hear that figures don't lie - but we all know (or should know) that liars figure. So be careful. In places like MN and IA it would seem that the so called "figuring" is really simply counting (or is it mis-counting??).
Published: Sunday, April 15th, 2012 @ 9:03 am
By: Jim Bispo
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In late March, Gov. Bev Perdue embarked on a two-week campaign to promote a plan that would fund additional education spending by increasing the state sales tax.
Published: Thursday, April 12th, 2012 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I agree with Gov. Perdue's assessment that education is key to our future. However, I cannot agree with her proposal to raise taxes. The proposal is based on a number of myths. Let's look at five of the worst.
Published: Sunday, February 5th, 2012 @ 8:23 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Beverly Perdue Tuesday proposed to raise the state sales tax rate by almost 16 percent in the midst of our state's worst recession in decades.
Published: Monday, January 23rd, 2012 @ 10:15 pm
By: Bill Cook
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