After being hit with a multi-million dollar tax assessment, a company that distributes video gaming devices has launched a constitutional challenge to Maryland’s gaming regulations, claiming they are arbitrary and treat small businesses differently than big casinos. Columbia Amusements Inc., ...

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The office-supply retailer Staples owes Maryland more than $14 million in unpaid taxes from between 1999 and 2004, an administrative court has ruled. The Massachusetts-based company reorganized its business in 1998, creating two entities: Staples Inc., which handles administrative functions ...

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A Nordstrom subsidiary can’t use its own error to avoid a Maryland tax bill of more than $2 million, the state’s highest court has held.

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Affirming the holding of the Maryland Tax Court, the Circuit Court for Howard County ruled this month that when the recordation tax becomes due on an indemnity mortgage or an indemnity deed of trust (an “IDOT”), the party responsible to pay the tax is the guarantor who executed the IDOT.

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Between 2010 and 2013, the Maryland Tax Court failed more than 40 percent of the time to resolve homeowners’ appeals of property-tax assessments within 90 days of filing, as required by state law, according to state legislative auditors.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not have to pay property taxes on a Montgomery County apartment complex where it houses religious workers, the state’s highest court held Wednesday. The Court of Appeals said the apartment qualified ...

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