ANNAPOLIS — Fewer taxpayers would be affected by an income tax increase approved Monday under a House panel’s plan then one approved by the state Senate last week. The House plan also rejected the idea of applying the state’s sales tax ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A package of budget measures will be keeping the House of Delegates busy this week. The House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to consider a bill to raise income taxes on most Maryland taxpayers on Monday afternoon. ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The House Appropriations Committee is working on Maryland budget legislation. To start a long day of budget labors on Friday, Delegate Norman Conway, D-Wicomico, announced that a proposal to split teacher pensions between the state and local governments ...

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The Democrat-controlled Senate gave its approval to a package of four bills that relate to the state budget, but several senators voiced their disdain for a measure in SB 523, which creates a new tax bracket for individuals earning more ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A Senate panel’s plan to raise the state income tax is out of touch with working class Marylanders, chamber Republicans say, foreshadowing what could be a bitter debate on state spending this week on the Senate floor. State ...

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Jonathan Eisner, a partner in DLA Piper’s Baltimore office and chair of the firm’s trusts and estates practice, was selected as a Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). ACTEC is a national organization of approximately ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley is outlining a budget plan that includes about $311 million in new revenue. O’Malley said Wednesday that about $182 million will come from capping income tax deductions and phasing out exemptions for high-income earners. O’Malley ...

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There are tax breaks for college students, job hunters and victims of natural disasters. If much of it seems familiar, that’s because it is. With all the talk about tax reform, there weren’t many changes to tax law in 2011. ...

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Patapsco Bancorp Inc. of Dundalk, parent company of The Patapsco Bank, reported earnings available to common shareholders for its fiscal first quarter ended Sept. 30, 2011, of $128,000, or 7 cents per diluted share, versus earnings of 10,000, or 1 ...

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WASHINGTON — More than half of cities have cut staff, canceled construction projects or raised fees this year, according to a report from the National League of Cities that catalogs the vast damage from shrunken property- and income-tax revenue. Cities ...

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