taxes

Does the current budget impasse between the N.C. General Assembly and Gov. Roy Cooper feel different? It should.  There is less of a sense of crisis even though the decisions…

Orange County Commissioners have voted to raise property taxes by 1/4-cent in order to “combat climate change.” Before delving into the details, let’s take a look at the…

The North Carolina budget bill (House Bill 966) for fiscal years (FY) 2019-20 and 2020-21 is over a thousand pages of provisions and monetary line items describing…

Now that the House has officially rejected the Senate’s budget bill, the two chambers soon will begin conference negotiations to set a final budget that likely will be subject to a…

Tax reform left a number of people receiving smaller refunds (or writing larger checks) this April because many taxpayers inadvertently had too little withheld from their paychecks. On the other…

Alcohol entrepreneurship in North Carolina isn’t limited to craft beer, wine, and liquor. Seventh in the nation in apple production, North Carolina is also seeing a growth in producers…

A $700 million accounting change made the North Carolina House’s $23.9 General Fund budget difficult to compare with past budgets and with Gov. Roy Cooper’s spending proposal. The budget bill…

The North Carolina budget remains a work in progress even as the State House votes this week to approve its version and send it to their colleagues in the State…

Policymakers around the country look to North Carolina’s fiscal example to guide their quests for lower taxes. Restrained spending has made it possible for state government to tax less and…

Former Vice President Joe Biden was right when he called it a $40 billion scam. That’s how Biden once characterized Medicaid provider taxes. States impose these taxes on hospitals or…