State Income Tax

More than two years ago, Florida lawmakers agreed to pay CSX Corp. more than $400 million to acquire the tracks needed for Central Florida's planned SunRail commuter train. As part of the deal, CSX said it would reinvest the money in several rail projects...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan taxpayers could get enough back from the state to pay for a fast-food lunch — or two if they’re thrifty — under a measure approved Wednesday by the state House that aims to accelerate a pending income...

Gov. Martin O'Malley used his State of the State address Wednesday to make his case for his most ambitious legislative agenda since taking office. Now comes the hard job of selling it. In an upbeat, 33-minute speech to both chambers of the General...

Gov. Martin O'Malley is expected to make a personal, perhaps quixotic pitch Wednesday for what could be the least popular proposal in Annapolis this year: raising the tax on gasoline. The governor is scheduled to testify before House and Senate...

A Maryland family making more than $175,000 will pay at least $254 more in income taxes this year under a revenue-raising plan the Maryland General Assembly is expected to take up when it convenes for special session on Monday. The same family of joint...

Republican lawmakers opened Monday's special session with a roar of protest, denouncing Gov. Martin O'Malley as a liar and vowing to fight the majority Democrats' plans to raise income taxes and shift part of the cost of teacher pensions to the counties....

A carefully choreographed strategy to raise state income taxes to stave off so-called doomsday budget cuts faces a challenge in the General Assembly after several Democrats defied party leaders with a proposal to raise the sales tax instead. The...

The General Assembly's speedy embrace of Gov. Martin O'Malley's income tax increases this week cleaned up a political mess in Annapolis, but the rate hikes could come back to haunt the Democrat if he seeks national office when his time in the governor's...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - An aggressive package of income tax cuts has gone to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, who has until May 26 to sign it, veto it or let it become law without his signature.     The bill reached Brownback's desk Wednesday, the same day House...

A week after the scheduled end of the legislative session, and there's still no budget or redistricting agreement. Former school principal Carolyn Bridges plans on running for Wichita's House District 83 seat--that is, if it turns out she still lives...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas legislators have given final approval to a $14.3 billion budget, allowing them to close out a contentious annual session.     The Senate voted 22-13 on Sunday to approve a compromise spending plan for the fiscal year...

Thomas Neale's recent letter to the editor employs uses usual Republican tactic of throwing out irrelevant statistics to confuse the issue of tax fairness ("The wealthy pay more than their fair share," May 14). It doesn't matter that the top 1 percent...