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The former town manager for the town of Elizabethtown in Bladen County, did not have payroll taxes withheld and possibly used the town’s credit card for non-valid town purposes.
Published: Monday, October 2nd, 2023 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican lawmakers proposed a bill to replace the income, payroll, and estate taxes with a national sales tax while abolishing the IRS.
Published: Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 @ 4:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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Lawmakers in the North Carolina House fast-tracked a bill today that would allow businesses that received Payroll Protection Program loans from the federal government to have any expenses the funds were used for deducted from state tax.
Published: Sunday, May 2nd, 2021 @ 6:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Because of tough decisions made by the General Assembly and Gov. Pat McCrory, North Carolina's payroll tax is expected to drop by about $280 million in 2016 and as much as $550 million by 2017. What you think about this sequence of events says a lot about your political philosophy and your...
Published: Friday, May 8th, 2015 @ 11:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Progressives everywhere are calling for an increase in the minimum wage. (For a look at the progressive movement's historical support for the minimum wage see this article.) The amount of the increase depends on who is calling for it. President Obama wants a 40 percent hike from the current...
Published: Saturday, December 13th, 2014 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The weather is getting warmer, the plants are in bloom, and people are starting to spend more time outside. Yes, it's springtime, and as we get more comfortable with the season change, one thing continues to put a damper on things - tax day. April 15 arrived today, but do you know exactly...
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although it may not seem obvious at first, there is a common denominator between two separate dramas playing out in Washington and Raleigh right now. Nationally, the top story in domestic policy is the impending implementation of the Affordable Care Act a.k.a. Obamacare.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2013 @ 3:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As a longtime advocate of shortening North Carolina's ballot and rationalizing the distribution of executive power in state government, I was glad to see some folks reacting to a recent News & Observer series on workers-comp evasion by calling for state agency reorganization.
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2012 @ 7:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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