ANNAPOLIS — Although the next legislative session is still a couple months off, it’s becoming apparent that new taxes will be one of the central issues before the General Assembly. This week, the Blue Ribbon Commission on Maryland Transportation Funding ...

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The Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative has launched a campaign to raise taxes on all tobacco products in Maryland. Cigarette prices would increase by $1 per pack, and other tobacco taxes would increase at a corresponding rate. More than 150 faith, ...

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WASHINGTON – In Maryland, a state with the nation’s second-highest concentration of millionaires, there are a lot of eyes on President Obama’s push for a “Buffet Rule” tax on the wealthiest Americans. Details are still sketchy on the president’s plan, ...

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A Maryland health group is planning to push for a $1 increase in the state’s tobacco tax. The Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative says it will launch the campaign next week in an effort to build public support for increasing the ...

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Maryland’s highest court on Thursday upheld a piggyback tax on nonresidents, which brought in nearly $50 million last year and an estimated $500 million since it was enacted in 2004. The challengers — three partners in Philadelphia-based Saul Ewing LLP, ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Business groups urged lawmakers on Tuesday to forgo changes to Maryland’s corporate tax structure in the upcoming legislative session in which state leaders will face an estimated $1 billion budget deficit. The plea came just 10 days after ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether filing a false statement on a tax return is an aggravated felony, rendering a defendant deportable under federal immigration law. The defendants in the case, a Japanese married couple who were ...

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Lawyers for several online travel companies and three local governments were back in federal court Wednesday, with both sides asking the judge to grant their motions for summary judgment. Much of the argument in U.S. District Court in Baltimore focused ...

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Montgomery County has approved a 5-cent bag tax modeled after the one that took effect in the nation’s capital last year. The Montgomery County Council approved the tax on both paper and plastic bags on Tuesday. It is expected to ...

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GREENBELT — A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to conspiring with others in a scheme to transport and distribute untaxed cigarettes. Chun Chen of Bowie, Md., pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Greenbelt. According to a plea agreement, Chen ...

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