State Income Tax

In a classic "Seinfeld" episode, the ever-hapless George Costanza decides it's time to change his strategy. "Every decision that I've ever made in my entire life has been wrong. My life is the complete opposite of everything I've wanted to be." His...

New York -- Actor Stephen Baldwin was arrested Thursday on a charge of failing to file New York state personal income tax returns for three years, according to a statement released by the Rockland County district attorney's office. According to the...

Thomas M. Neale's letter to the editor ("The wealthy pay more than their fair share," May 14) uses the usual Republican tactic of irrelevant statistics to confuse the issue of tax fairness. It does not matter that the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay 38...

This Wednesday's planned opening of the half-billion-dollar Maryland Live! Casino at Arundel Mills marks a red-letter day in Maryland gaming history. The scale of the enormous, 330,000-square-foot facility is stunning: It will eventually house 4,750...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed massive cuts in state income taxes into law.     Brownback signed the bill during a Statehouse ceremony Tuesday.     A contentious debate continues about whether the cuts will usher in economic...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Legislation that would lower the state’s income tax rate to 3.9 percent by 2018 was approved Thursday by the Michigan House, though the Senate likely won’t take it up until later this year as the two chambers wind...

A tax management program will be offered to producers and tax preparers from 9 a.m. to noon CST on Friday, Nov. 30, at 11 interactive video sites in North Dakota. The program is sponsored by the North Dakota State University Extension Service and...

The day Gov. Jerry Brown took office in 2011, the state budget was more than $25 billion in the red — the latest installment in a long-running drama of boom-and-bust budgeting. Since then, lawmakers have slashed billions of dollars from education,...

Obamacare, same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization dominated the hot-button ballot initiatives before voters in a number of states on Tuesday. A key component of President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law is on the line in a...

MEET THE CANDIDATES   When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...

In the great pile of email that arrived after last Sunday's column on millionaires who whine about "class warfare," there were numerous defenses of wealthy "job creators like Mitt Romney," and an equal number of attacks on "liberals like President Obama"...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown may still pull out a victory for his beleaguered tax measure. Then he can tell all us kibitzers to go eat a big Thanksgiving plate of crow. Polls show "yes" votes in the high 40s with the "no" side in the low 40s....