Much of the gain would come from a state sales tax on "business-to-business" purchases like legal, accounting, banking and printing costs.
Typically, a business will not pay state income tax on 100% of its income.
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While equipment like wind turbines and solar panels are typically pricey, federal and state government agencies are offering business owners tax breaks for installing them.
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The reason for the income-tax exemption is obvious: if Texarkana, Arkansas, had to pay the state income tax, residents and business would have even more reason swiftly to move to Texas.
But it is near the bottom in business and tax climate and state bond ratings.
At least the current package to cut state debt and give tax breaks to business from 2001 points in the right direction.
Its argument: that a tourism tax where there is no state income, sales or property tax would unfairly burden the cruise business.
In other areas, the state transition toward creating a small business-friendly tax climate is already in effect.
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Streamlined Sales Tax Project, a joint state and business effort started in 1999.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has made no secret of the fact that his no-tax state is a great place for business and workers.
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It has no state capital-gains or income tax, and a business-friendly and immigrant-tolerant attitude.
Their objection is that the tax could increase the cost of doing business is the state.
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To encourage development (and perhaps remedy the aversion to settle in old asylums), the state of Michigan allows the business owners and residents to operate and live nearly tax-free until 2017.
North Dakota that a business had to be physically present in a state before it was required to collect tax.
So, today, in line with what I stated at the State of the Union, I've proposed a new jobs tax credit for small business.
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North Dakota, the Supreme Court ruled that a business had to be physically present in a state before it was required to collect use tax.
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Moret also cites the elimination of several unconventional business taxes and the adoption of the largest personal-income tax cut in state history as ways that the state has improved its economic competitiveness.
You may owe use tax if you purchased books, clothing, electronics, artwork, jewelry, or other items from an out-of-state business (for example, through a catalog or Internet retailer) that did not collect California tax.
"The bottom line is that if a vendor is paying New York residents to actively solicit business in this state, there is no reason why that vendor should not shoulder the appropriate tax burden, " Lippman wrote.
State efforts at online sales tax collection have made it much, much easier to run my small business.
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He repeated those very same areas in terms of small business -- assistance to small business in his State of the Union address, and again last week when he signed the payroll tax cut extension.
Gutierrez is identified as the founder of another politically active group called Vamos Unidos USA, which the complaint says is a fictitious business name for a company called Vamos EUA, which has been the subject of several State of California tax liens filed with the Los Angeles County recorder of deeds in 2011 and 2012.
Personal and business income tax collections from Wall Street and related activities accounted for up to 20 percent of the state's tax revenues before the crisis, dropping to 14 percent last year.
Formula apportionment would allow tax bureaucrats to concoct a system for arbitrarily changing the existing distribution of business income, with a clear goal of forcing companies to over-state their taxable income in high-tax nations.
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The anti-tax team is Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute, New York State Senator John DeFrancisco, and business lobbyist Deborah Warner.
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In addition, American business currently suffers virtually the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world at nearly 40%, counting state corporate rates on average.
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