Taxes

In this Oct. 16, 2009 photo a house for sale in Beachwood, Ohio, is shown. October home sales are up 10.1 percent, beating expectations, as tax credit spurs sales.(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta) Copyright 2009 AP News

Businesses face rising unemployment insurance taxes as job market struggles to recover As if small businesses needed another reason not to hire, consider their latest financial burden: The cost of rising unemployment itself. Employers already are squeezed by tight credit, rising health ...

W.Va. lawmakers end special session with passage of gas tax, energy policy, road fund measures West Virginia's Legislature ended its special session Friday with tweaks to the gas tax and state energy policy among the final bills to pass. Party-line debates and ...

Panel mulling tax changes for W.Va. considers giving more tax flexibility to towns, counties West Virginia's tax modernization project is back on, but that doesn't mean businesses and individuals should necessarily expect lower taxes in the near future. "Tax modernization does not ...

Actor Wesley Snipes to appeal 3 tax convictions to federal appeals court in Atlanta Actor Wesley Snipes is set to ask a federal appeals panel to overturn his three federal tax convictions. The actor was sentenced last year to three years in ...

Iowa Gov. Culver orders agencies to review 30 tax credit programs after film program problems Iowa Gov. Chet Culver is ordering a review of 30 tax credit programs administered by six state agencies to determine if they are meeting goals established when ...

Wyoming legislative committee declines to endorse 2 bills taxing wind energy development A Wyoming legislative committee voted against sponsoring two bills to tax wind energy development. Industry representatives and lobbyists warned members of the Joint Revenue Committee at a meeting at the ...

SC offering shoppers a 48-hour sales tax break on guns called 'Second Amendment Weekend' South Carolina shoppers will get a second chance to buy tax-free guns. The state Revenue Department sent out a reminder Wednesday of the upcoming "Second Amendment Weekend." The ...

Budget analyst: California faces huge challenges through 2015 amid slow economic recovery Despite multiple attempts to balance California's budget, the state can still expect to confront shortfalls approaching $20 billion during each of the next five years, according to a long-range forecast ...

Democratic leader's health care bill calls for higher Medicare payroll tax on wealthy Health care legislation headed for the Senate floor includes higher payroll taxes for upper income wage earners. According to an outline of the bill, the tax is designed to ...