All posts tagged "margin tax"

  • Opinion
    NPRI’s Priorities: Strengthening the ESA, fighting against tax hikes

    (Sharon Rossie, NPRI) – Now that I’ve been back at NRPI for some time and had the opportunity to speak with and meet many of you and hear your hopes and concerns for Nevada, I’d like to share my vision for NPRI and show you what I believe we can accomplish together....

  • Politics
    Commerce Tax: The Real Facts

    (Ron Knecht & Geoffrey Lawrence) – Rob Hooper of the Northern Nevada Development Authority recently penned an apology for the commerce tax passed last month by Nevada’s legislature and signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval.  NNDA exists to promote investment in Nevada, so he tried to put the best face possible on this...

  • Politics
    Sandoval’s tax hikes explained

    Businesses won’t be the only ones paying the price for bigger, more wasteful Nevada government (Chantal Lovell...

  • Opinion
    RINOs are bad for the Republican Party and America

    (Joseph Morabito) – Republicans In Name Only (RINOs) are bad for the Republican Party and America.  RINOs are nothing more than Socialists Lite willing to raise taxes, increase regulations and add to Local, State and National Debt by borrowing to fund Socialist Schemes. We just saw this is the state of Nevada where...

  • Politics
    Michele Fiore’s statement on Senate Bill 483

    (Michele Fiore for AD4) – Assemblywoman Michele Fiore issued the following statement in response to the vote on Senate Bill 483. “I will always stand with the voters of Nevada, and when they voted down the Margin Tax overwhelmingly last year, I heard them loud and clear. That is why I voted against...

  • Politics
    Business Margin Tax Initiative Petition Filed, Legal Challenge Expected

    (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – A business margin tax initiative petition filed with the Secretary of State’s office won’t see signature gathering efforts start right away because a legal challenge to the proposal is expected, a teachers union official said today. But Lynn Warne, president of the Nevada State Education Association, who filed...

  • Business
    A Margin Tax Is Always A Bad Idea

    (Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – Leaders in the Democratic majority during the 2011 state legislative session proposed a dramatic change to Nevada’s tax system: Phase out the Modified Business Tax — a tax on private-sector payroll — and replace it with a new, larger levy modeled after Texas’ business margin tax. The effort gained...