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Massachusetts

‘Millionaire’s tax’ wins key vote on Beacon Hill

BOSTON – It wasn't a question of "if" but rather "how" lawmakers on Beacon Hill would advance the "millionaire's tax" proposal, a measure that calls for altering the state Constitution's flat tax to smack a surcharge on the commonwealth&

Massachusetts

Poll shows support for adding charters, rejecting legal pot

BOSTON – Among potential ballot measures that may go before voters in November, raising the cap on charter schools won the most support in a recently released survey of Massachusetts voters. The proposed initiative asks voters to allow the creation of up to 12 new charter schools each year, with emphasis

Massachusetts

Sales tax roll-back proposal runs into Democratic wall

BOSTON – Saying state spending has risen 50 percent since 2006, state Rep. James Lyons appealed to his colleagues in the House of Representatives Monday to roll back the Massachusetts sales tax to 5 percent from 6.25 percent. Rep. Stephen Kulik, a Worthington Democrat, argued for an amendment to study

Massachusetts

House rejects film credit cap, gas tax increase

BOSTON – The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Monday shot down proposals to increase the state gas tax and to cap the state's film tax credit program as they began to dispense with more than 1,300 amendments to a state budget bill. The House swiftly took care of

Massachusetts legislature

Gas tax option for Mass. towns explored on Beacon Hill

BOSTON – In a brief public hearing lacking of any counter-arguments, members of the Legislature's Joint Revenue Committee listened Tuesday to a western Massachusetts lawmaker's pitch to let cities and towns decide whether to slap drivers with a 3-cent-a-gallon fuel tax surcharge at the pump. "I