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The House passed a franchise tax cut and expanded film grants despite an attempt to shoot down the expansion of film grants.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2019 @ 11:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The ink is dry, but the howling from the Left continues. The 2017 tax reform law is in place and working as advertised - lower personal and corporate taxes, more money in the pockets of Americans, repatriation of billions of dollars of corporate profit, and an economy that will be robust
Published: Saturday, March 24th, 2018 @ 9:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's a valid argument against federal tax reform - an argument that didn't apply to North Carolina's path-breaking reforms - but congressional Democrats and their ideological allies are spending most of their time repeating misleading talking points about the bill
Published: Friday, December 29th, 2017 @ 2:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolinians would experience large gains in after-tax income under the tax-reform bill released last week in Washington, according to an initial analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation
Published: Friday, November 10th, 2017 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's historic 2013 tax reform drastically improved our state's tax climate, making the Tar Heel State far more competitive for job and investment growth. The Tax Foundation credited the tax changes for North Carolina's dramatic increase from the 7th worst business tax climate in the...
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 @ 6:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Now that fact checkers for The Washington Post, WRAL-TV, and FactCheck.org have all taken the Senate Majority PAC to task for its false attack ad against Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis, I've decided to intervene in the organization's defense.
Published: Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 @ 4:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory used the deadline for filing income tax returns to tout the historic tax reform package that he signed into law last year.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 8:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At both the federal and state levels, debates about tax reform often devolve quickly into wildly conflicting claims about winners and losers.
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2013 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today Representative Paul Tine announced that he voted for the Tax Reform Bill, House Bill 998.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2013 @ 5:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As the House and Senate work to fashion a compromise tax-reform bill, one of the sticking points is how much to cut North Carolina's corporate-income tax.
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 12:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tax reform legislation working its way through the General Assembly could affect a Taxpayer Bill of Rights measure originally intended to return...
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 10:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Senate, amid a rift among the chamber's leadership, gave its initial approval Thursday to a tax reform bill that would establish a flat tax, lower personal income taxes, and phase out the corporate income tax.
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2013 @ 1:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate Republicans pushed ahead Wednesday with their version of tax reform as the chamber's Finance Committee gave the bill a thumbs up. The measure...
Published: Friday, June 14th, 2013 @ 11:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House has officially approved its tax-reform bill. It would create a 5.9 percent flat income tax -- replacing the current rates...
Published: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 @ 12:12 pm
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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In state politics, most people cite the unemployment rate as a proxy for the performance of North Carolina's economy. They also tend to describe...
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A tax reform package cleared a key committee Thursday and is headed for a House floor vote, possibly as early as today. The bill passed the House Appropriations...
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 10:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement this afternoon concerning the latest tax reform bills discussed in committee.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2013 @ 6:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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While North Carolina's elected leaders prepare to tackle tax reform, the John Locke Foundation's new book urges them to take on the related issue of government overspending through a state Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 @ 9:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Any tax-reform bill that might move through the North Carolina General Assembly will address only state-level taxes. So the topic of my column today is unlikely to lead to any legislative action in the short run.
Published: Friday, January 18th, 2013 @ 7:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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