Category Archives: taxes
Vermont: Tax Vermonters Who Buy In New Hampshire
When a seller doesn’t charge Vermont’s 6 percent sales tax, buyers are responsible for paying what’s known as use tax at the same rate. The tax applies to online, phone or mail-order purchases as well as purchases made outside Vermont … Continue reading
Residents Question Parking Kiosk in Dover, NH
Politicos rely on endless scheming to promote long standing fake ruses that “it’s for the children.” It’s often only much later (if at all) that we find out the intended funding has been diverted to other entities listed on their … Continue reading
Sununu Satisfied With Latest RGGI Proposal
Gov. Chris Sununu praised a new draft of goals for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap and trade program among New England states, as a step in the right direction. Among other things, the proposal calls for a 30 percent … Continue reading
NH’s new business development tax break takes effect, to little fanfare
A law that took effect Aug. 18 allows New Hampshire municipalities to offer up to a 10-year, 50 percent cut in property tax bills on commercial and industrial development. Now the question is: Will cities and towns take advantage of … Continue reading
Rep. Karen Umberger: Short-term rentals are subject to NH rooms and meals tax
To the editor: Summer vacation is winding down and the tourists are starting to think about other things. I need to remind anyone who has rented their property over the summer or during ski season through Airbnb, vacations rentals or … Continue reading
Posted in New Hampshire News, taxes
Tagged Air bnb, Karen Umberger, Rooms and Meals, taxes
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Just What Connecticut Needs – A Gun Tax
“… there are three reasons why right now is a good time for the rest of us to be thinking about a gun tax. One, a gun tax would raise revenue for the state. Two, a gun tax would almost … Continue reading
AFP-NH to host tax reform forum in Portsmouth
MANCHESTER — Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire (AFP-NH) will host the third and final event in a series of forums on tax reform in Portsmouth on Wednesday. The event will bring together individuals and business owners who have been impacted … Continue reading
200 New Hampshire businesses to split $7 million in 2017 R and D tax credits
Not too many more businesses applied for New Hampshire’s research and development tax credit this year than last, and they didn’t ask for that much more, but they sure are getting more – about three times as much. Thanks to … Continue reading
NHFPI Hides the Good Fiscal News Behind What May Not Even be Bad News
In a recent report the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute (NHFPI) hems and haws its way through potential fiscal decline couched in “mights and maybes” and then (Surprise!) we get “substantially more” in paragraph four. While the preliminary accrual revenues for SFY … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Economy/Economics, GraniteGrok, Local NH Politics, taxes
Tagged Budget, New Hampshire, NHFPI, Revenue, taxes
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Bill Walker: Tax marijuana, not entrepreneurs
NEW HAMPSHIRE IS NOT A HIGH-TAX STATE. But we look like a high- tax state to businesses thinking about moving here. We have two complex business taxes. Most CFOs looking for locations take one look at the “devil they don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Economy/Economics, Jobs/Unemployment, taxes
Tagged Bill Walker, Business Taxes
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The New Media Militia 