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• Senate panel mulling tax bill

  March 29, 2012 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – A Senate panel is due today to help decide the 2012 Legislature’s last critical question: Will Gov. Butch Otter win his coveted $35 million tax relief bill, or …

• Spin Control: Tax amnesty a windfall, but where’s the outrage?

  May 8, 2011 in City on Page B10 OLYMPIA – Business organizations regularly bemoan how little recognition, respect and support they get from the state. But evidence to the contrary was clear last week, when the state announced … 3

• Austerity, abortion, school reforms mark Idaho legislative session

  April 10, 2011 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Thousands of Idahoans poured into the state Capitol this year to plead for – of all things – tax increases, rather than cuts in medical care to the … 1

• Idaho Democrats make stand on cigarette tax hearing

  March 30, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – The Idaho House’s minority Democrats declared a procedural guerrilla war on Tuesday, vowing stall tactics to delay the 2011 session’s end to protest the Republican majority’s refusal to …

• Washington ranks 29th in national tax report

  February 24, 2011 in Business on Page A8 State and local taxes in 2009 claimed 9.3 percent of Washington incomes, and 9.4 percent in Idaho, according to figures released Wednesday by the Tax Foundation. The nonpartisan foundation’s calculation …

• Board of Tax Appeals rules Hart missed deadline

    August 26, 2010 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – Idaho’s state Board of Tax Appeals has rejected state Rep. Phil Hart’s appeal of an order to pay $53,000 in back state income taxes, penalties and interest, saying … 1