It appears that the secrecy has ended: Notice has been officially posted on the Legislature’s website here of an upcoming Oct. 6 meeting of the Tax Working Group, and co-chairs Sen. Jeff Siddoway and Rep. Gary Collins have declared that from this point on, the group’s meetings will be open to the public just like any other interim legislative committee. “When we formed the group and we were appointed chairs, then I felt like this is knocking on the door of interim committee-type stuff,” Siddoway told Eye on Boise. “And if we’re going to be an interim committee, even though we weren’t authorized during the legislative session and formally put together, it’s starting to feel like that to me. So if we’re going to go forward, I darn sure want to follow all the rules that any interim committee would be expected to follow. And of course, part of that is the open meeting laws and the notices and all that stuff”/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: Do you trust the individuals involved in re-working tax policy?