Taxes
Inheriting a mess
Inaction on the death tax is bad news for family businesses.
The Senate's most recent action on the death tax took place in the Finance Committee earlier this month, in a hearing to consider "Alternatives to the Current Federal Estate Tax System." The hearing may as well have been titled "Redistribution by Another Name."
Getting Plucked in Nevada
How Government Covertly Increases Your Tax Burden
You'd never know it from the incessant calls for new taxes on Nevadans, but Silver State residents already pay some of the highest taxes in the nation.
Coming out of the dark
Government transparency would add credibility to both sides of the budget battle.
There's nothing particularly new, or even all that interesting, about the kafuffle taking place over Nevada's public K-12 education budget.
Still gross
The Gross Receipts Tax remains a horrible idea.
The Nevada special interests that regularly plump for a "broad based business tax" always couch their advocacy in the language of good public policy.
It's interesting, therefore, that the particular tax they’ve worked hardest for - a statewide gross receipts tax - is actually one of the worst public policy choices conceivable, according to non-partisan public finance experts.
Repeat offenders
Genuine reform is needed to end corruption at UMC.
The feeling of being in a time loop is something Southern Nevadans are becoming familiar with. They experience it anew every time the latest management debacle at the University Medical Center pops up in the news.
Death and taxes
The Federal Estate Tax rate is set to spike.
The battle over the Federal Estate Tax, also known as the Death Tax, just won’t go away. It’s like the energizer bunny – it keeps going and going.
Nevada tax myths
Misconceptions allow our politicians to dodge accountability for bad public policy.
You’d never know it from the incessant calls for new taxes on Nevadans, but Silver State residents already pay some of the highest taxes in the nation.
The confused gaming-tax debate
We can find new revenues without creating any new taxes.
Just four short years ago, the Guinn Administration proposed and implemented the “mother of all tax increases” in Nevada. At that time, Gov. Guinn said, in reference to his $1 billion-plus plan to increase taxes, “This will not just be a plan for the next two years. This is a plan for the future.”
The subtext behind the tax talk
They want you at their mercy.
Your priorities don’t count.
That’s the message, loud and clear, from Nevada’s ever-higher taxes crowd once again.
There they go again
The latest budget battle is a strange but familiar episode.
How peculiar, in the eyes of any financially responsible citizen, must be this drama now playing out in Carson City. It began when Gov. Jim Gibbons, responding to lower-than-projected revenues over the first couple months of the fiscal year, called on government departments in his charge to prepare contingency budgets at a level 5 percent below what they’d initially planned for.
