Tax

Oklahoma saw its economy steadily slowing through 2019, according to Treasurer Randy McDaniel.

Texas closed out a record year of sales tax collections with a strong kick in December, state Comptroller Glenn Hegar said.

With a new Texas Rangers venue opening in March, the city of Arlington, Texas, plans to add an adjacent hotel and convention center.

The Winona County Board of Commissioners approved the county's 2020 property tax levy Friday, though not without some disagreement about the increase.

Another round of tax legislation is not expected to emerge until the very end of the year after the presidential election or in 2021 after a new Congress is sworn in.

The legislation, which would make tax-exempt municipal bonds more attractive for high-income income retail customers, has no chance of becoming law.

Reports of a trade deal and an election that seems to cement Brexit don’t remove the uncertainties the Federal Reserve has been worrying about.

The additional revenue from permanently increasing the top individual tax rate to 39.6% from the current 37% would help pay for a temporary two-year suspension of the SALT cap.

For the fourth time since 1993, Oklahoma City voters have approved a 1-cent tax to build projects without the use of bonds.

John Hicks has left his position as executive director of NASBO to become Kentucky's budget director.

The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority prices $807.7 million in subordinate bonds Thursday for the capital plan.

The $10,000 limit on the SALT deduction caused an estimated 10.88 million individual taxpayers to lose $323.1 billion in tax deductions for the 2018 tax year.

Proposition CC, which would have repealed the revenue cap built into Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights, promised to help fund three of the state's most notably underfunded buckets: K-12 education, higher education and transportation infrastructure.

Most observers were skeptical, even as markets rallied after President Trump said a trade deal with China is close.

Richard Taormina, head of Tax Aware Strategies at JPMorgan Asset Management, talks about the value of municipal bonds and focuses on performance, foreign demand and the effect of the tax reform legislation on the market. Chip Barnett hosts this podcast, which was recorded in early October.

Next week's $500 million taxable revenue bond deal is backed by a 1% surcharge on annual incomes higher than $1 million.

The Chicago Civic Federation supports the proposed budget despite worries

NDH founder Scott Haber told Louisiana officials that state tax credits can provide seed funding for public-private partnership projects.

Gov. Brian Kemp asked state agencies to reduce spending by 4% in the current budget and by 6% in fiscal 2021.

The port saw a 19.1% year-over-year drop in port container traffic in October amid the trade war with China.