Sales tax

Four states will become the latest to require out-of-state e-commerce retailers to collect sales tax on Jan. 1 while 10 others aren’t expected to do so until later in 2019.

S&P Global Ratings now rates New York personal income tax and sales tax bonds AA-plus.

The city’s incentive plan supports a $5 billion proposal to fill a 40-acre low-lying hole in downtown with a mixed-use development.

Kane County's share of Regional Transportation Authority sales taxes backs up its pledge of toll revenue for the Longmeadow Parkway bridge.

The city in Kansas will issue sales tax and revenue bonds to subsidize about half the cost of an $80 million minor-league baseball stadium.

Structural differences insulated Chicago bonds from the worst of the impacts of S&P's new criteria while dragging down the rating of Build Illinois debt.

School vouchers in Arizona and bond measures in Colorado are among the fiscal ballot measures Southwest voters will decide Tuesday.

S&P Global Ratings cut Build Illinois bonds after changing its criteria; the downgrade mirrors a Fitch Ratings action in May.

The backloaded maturity schedule of the debt brings comparisons to the city's supposedly abandoned "scoop-and-toss" practices.

A new law takes effect Nov. 1 to allow New Jersey to collect sales tax on products shipped from out of state in the wake of the Supreme Court's Wayfair ruling.