Report: Mass. tax, fee burden falls
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The tax and fee burden borne by Massachusetts residents has dropped sharply since the 1990s, when compared with other states, according to an analysis released yesterday.
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Consider paying lower taxes now versus higher taxes later.
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WASHINGTON -- The deficit for the first five months of the budget year is down sharply from a year ago as the growth in government tax collections continues to outpace growth in spending.
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Real estate, like politics, is local. In a year when the median price of a single-family home in Massachusetts fell nearly 6 percent -- the biggest drop in a decade -- what you paid depended on where you shopped.
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October 22, 2004 -- ALBANY - The multibillion-dollar health-care program that helps fund everything from medical colleges to insurance for poor children may run a shortfall by the end of the state fiscal year, Comptroller Alan Hevesi warned yesterday.
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Thousands of Massachusetts workers are wrongly classified as self-employed or independent contractors by employers seeking to lower costs, according to a report released jointly today by the University of Massachusetts' and Harvard University's schools of Law and Public Health. Misclassifications enable employers to avoid payroll taxes and such mandated employee benefits as unemployment and workers' compensation insurance.
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President Bush&#39;s &quot;revenue-neutral&quot; tax reform needs losers to balance its winners, and people claiming the federal deduction for state and local taxes may be in administration planners&#39; sights, news reports say.
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Department store operator Bon-Ton  Stores Inc.  on Wednesday reported a wider quarterly  loss, hurt by an income tax charge, but reaffirmed its fiscal  year earnings forecast.
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The much-criticized Medicare drug benefit program that began last year has enrolled the vast majority of eligible people in Massachusetts, and saved the state more money -- about $76 million -- than planners predicted, according to a study being released today.
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Declining mortgage margins sink the tax-preparation specialist's first quarter.
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The Internal Revenue Service is putting out an all-points bulletin for Massachusetts taxpayers who are collectively owed $3 million in refunds - or an average of more than $1,000 each.
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Department store operator Bon-Ton Stores Inc.  on Wednesday reported a wider quarterly loss, hurt by an income tax charge, but reaffirmed its fiscal year earnings forecast.
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By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe  Dec. 14--The Massachusetts senator who has pledged to overhaul the  state's antiscalping law is now saying he intends to broaden his focus to  include many of the fees associated with initial ticket sales, such as  convenience and facilities charges.
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Massachusetts gained nearly 4,000 payroll jobs last month while the jobless rate held steady after hitting a three-year low in September, the state reported yesterday.
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The company reported a loss of $369.9 million in its fourth quarter, citing higher taxes, difficulty in its mortgage referral unit and costs for proposed spinoffs that would make five companies out of one.
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BOSTON -- The average uninsured Massachusetts resident could obtain health care coverage for as little as $175 a month under the state's insurance law, less than half of earlier estimates, officials said Saturday.
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Thousands of Massachusetts employers face a surprise jump in the tax they pay for unemployment insurance, upsetting business leaders who fear that the increase could dampen the economy and shocking state lawmakers who thought they had shored up the jobless program last year.