+Vote!
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: State budgets are a shambles. Sales taxes, corporate taxes, personal income taxes and other taxes are being raised all over the country. The budget problems and consequential taxes will impact municipal bond rates and default risk, and after-tax investment returns on many forms of investment. California Muni Money Funds: Complete Story »
1Vote!
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Amazon.com is nervous about the issue of collecting sales tax, but the e-commerce giant would still do well even if it had to tax sales at the same rate as its traditional retail rivals.
+Vote!
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the course of routine surveillance, Fitch Ratings has affirmed the 'A' rating on the City of South Weber, Utah's (the city) $1.4 million sales tax revenue bonds, series 2004. The Rating
+Vote!
The Street (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Amazon ends its affiliate program in Hawaii to avoid sales tax.
1Vote!
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
David Hunkar submits: This article is a follow up to my earlier post titled 'Why Are So Many U.S. States Facing Budget Deficits? ' which generated some interesting comments from Seeking Alpha readers. In addition to a fall in property, income, sales tax revenues and a rise in social benefits spending some readers pointed out that the main culprits are the compensation of government employees and the...
+Vote!
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An error was found in the rating on Fitch Ratings' web site for the following bond: --Jacksonville, Florida's Better Jacksonville Sales Tax Bonds, series 2001.
+Vote!
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A+' rating to Tamarac, Florida's (the city) approximately $5.6 million in sales tax revenue bonds. The bonds will be privately placed. Proceeds will be used to
+Vote!
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
Thanks to the economic stimulus bill, people who buy a new car can get a deduction on the sales tax -- but the value of that tax break will vary widely depending on what state you live in.
+Vote!
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Research Recap submits: The first half of 2009 saw staggering budget deficits, record unemployment and the largest infusion of federal dollars into state treasuries since the Great Depression, according to Stateline.org’s annual review of state-by-state legislative actions. To date, lawmakers in about half the states have closed shop for the legislative year. As Americans struggled with the...
+Vote!
Financial24 (Free subscription) | 06/14/2009
ISLAMABAD, June 14 - Pakistan will scrap a 0.02 percent capital value tax on the purchase of shares while imposing a new tax on brokers' commissions, a government adviser said on Sunday . 'In view of the new sales tax on stock brokers' commission ...
+Vote!
iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
JPM's Michael Cembalest with a terrific compare and contrast between the current economic situation and that of the 70's. Useful to not that no matter how many contrasts on draw to previous major recessions, what we are living through now is so much more than a simple manufacturing recession as Rosie keeps pounding the table. Anyone who believes that the impact from the unwind of 50 years of progressively...
+Vote!
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
Trader Mark submits: Quite an impressive economy we are transforming into. Do you see how the shell game is working? We borrow from the future [ Mar 31, 2009: Financial Rescue Pledges Now $12.8 Trillion ] to give to the current, whether it be financial oligarchs, states [ May 5, 2009: Federal Aid Surpasses Sales Taxes as Top Revenue Generator for States ], or indeed our individual citizens. We wave...
+Vote!
iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Quite an impressive economy we are transforming into. Do you see how the shell game is working? We borrow from the future (Mar 31, 2009: Financial Rescue Pledges Now $12.8 Trillion) to give to the current, whether it be financial oligarchs, states (May 5, 2009: Federal Aid Surpasses Sales Taxes as Top Revenue Generator for States), or indeed our individual citizens. We wave our hands in random order...
+Vote!
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
Kurt Brouwer submits: In light of the previous post on shrinking Federal tax revenues (see Federal Tax Revenues Plunge ), this piece on a national sales tax is revealing. The Washington Post is often a good source for trial balloon articles put forth by think tanks and politicians on controversial topics [emphasis added below]: Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look (Washington...
+Vote!
prmac | 02/02/2009
Berble Studios have released b-Tax 1.4 , an update to their highly rated Sales Tax and VAT calculator for iPhone and iPod Touch. For the first time the application ships with sales tax rates for all American states built right in. In addition to the United States, b-Tax has gone global with rates included for the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, France, Germany, India and the Netherlands. b-Tax...
Videos