Taxes

After nearly a decade of work, the state task force on overhauling the commonwealth's property valuation system is starting off with relatively simple legislation.

Pennsylvania House Democrats and a handful of Republicans are trying to figure out the best way to bring a natural gas severance tax up for a vote.

New Jersey’s gas tax won’t be going up this year. The law that raised the tax by 23 cents a gallon in November require ...

Philadelphia’s city controller says the city should never have established a soda tax.  It’s one of several disagreement ...

Philadelphia officials say the growth of beverage-related businesses has not declined since the city levied a tax on soda and other sweet ...

As President Donald Trump and Congress undertake an overhaul of the U.S. tax code this fall, Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is likely ...

Philadelphia’s city controller plans to survey businesses to see just how they are being affected by the city’s sweetened-bev ...

In states as different as Kansas and Illinois, Republican legislators have recognized reality and retreated from ...

Political analysts believe it’s likely Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy’s proposed tax increases will be approved ...

The problem with public education is not the children but the adults. It is paramount we deconstruct underpinnings behind partisan gridlock.

The health care bill in the U.S. Senate is very much like the one in the House, but in one respect it is far worse, thanks to Pennsylvani ...

Calling a feared backlash by voters an “inconvenient consequence,” Gov. John Carney urged a small contingent of upstate schoo ...

A small but determined group of educators, parents and advocates descended Tuesday to the steps of Legislative Hall protest Gov. John Car ...

The soda industry has worked hard to create the perception that the ...

The Philadelphia Beverage Tax benefits Philadelphians. To say otherwise ignores the big picture. Criticism of the tax merely focuses on i ...