Category Archives: Taxes

Will General Assembly Decide on Carbon Car Tax?

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Stephen D. Haner

Thanks to the persistence of Delegate Charles Poindexter, two members of Governor Ralph Northam’s cabinet are now on record stating the General Assembly will decide whether Virginia joins the carbon tax regime called the Transportation and Climate Initiative.  In 2018 both … Continue reading →

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Never Too Late for Serious Tax Reform

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Stephen D. Haner

The new chair of the House Finance Committee has introduced a major long-term tax reform proposal that will help most Virginia families, and the former chair of the same committee has offered a significant improvement to it. Both are good … Continue reading →

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“Conformity” Tax Reform Debate Should Return for 2020 Session

Posted on December 4, 2019 by matt ohern

Virginia taxpayers will save almost $600 million over two years as a result of the increase in the state standard deduction, a step proposed last year by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. That is a fresh estimate released … Continue reading →

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Voters Should Say “No” to New Carbon Tax

Posted on September 11, 2019 by matt ohern

Virginia should not join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.  Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax is now fully authorized under a new state regulation, and the deadline to appeal that regulation has passed with no … Continue reading →

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Calling It What It Is: A $450 Million Windfall Tax Hike!

Posted on August 27, 2019 by matt ohern

Virginia state government ended Fiscal Year 2019 awash in cash largely for one reason: A $466 million tax increase that fell on about 30 percent of individual taxpayers, caused by conforming to the new federal tax law without any corresponding … Continue reading →

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