Article: What will you do with your $31? -- California Libertarians call sales tax cut 'phony' tax relief

Article: Legislators now eye general sales tax cut
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  February 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... agreement on the tax cut package, both ... reducing the General Sales Tax Rate assessed ... percent state sales tax on food to 2.75 percent. One tax cut package last week ... the state food sales tax be part of the tax cut package this session ...

Article: SALES TAX BREAK BLOSSOMS INTO PROPERTY TAX ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  February 27, 1997 ;     700+ words ...How do you turn a sales tax break into a property tax cut? Just ask Weyerhaeuser, the ... lobbied the Legislature to pass a sales tax break for manufacturers and then ... exempt manufacturers from paying sales tax on machinery and equipment ...

Article: Missouri Governor Offers Corporate Tax Cut, ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... spending, Holden also urged the Legislature to pass a three-day sales tax holiday in August, when parents typically buy school supplies ... Holden said the direct cost to the state of the corporate tax cut, if approved by the Legislature, would be outweighed by benefits ...

Article: Oregon Business Leaders Call for Income Tax Cut, ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  December 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... state's income taxes in favor of a sales tax. Kulongoski said he thought state government ... said they were skeptical about pushing a sales tax that has been repeatedly rejected by ... Revamping the tax code "probably means a sales tax," he said. That theme was picked up ...

Article: Gas tax cut may be stumbling already Madigan ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  June 28, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... remove the 5 percent sales tax on gasoline, which ... voting against the tax cut, which would last ... Madigan holds out for a sales tax holiday, it would ... lifting the gasoline sales tax, and have largely ... credit for the pending tax cut. "I'm not ...

Article: Local merchants unfazed by N.Y.C.'s sales tax ...
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  June 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... unfazed by N.Y.C.'s sales tax cut By JOAN VERDON, STAFF ... about to lose some of its sales tax advantage over New York ... New Yorkers don't pay sales tax on clothing items costing less than $110. The tax cut is expected to take effect ...

Article: GOV. EASLEY ANNOUNCES STATE SALES TAX CUT ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 28, 2006 ;     395 words ... ... from a cut in the state sales tax rate that goes into effect ... Dec. 1. The state sales tax rate will drop from 4 ... recommended the cut in the sales tax that the General Assembly ... approved this year. "This tax cut provides almost $200 ...