A debate on property tax relief started in the Nebraska Legislature on Wednesday, and an increase in the sales tax is part of the discussion. LB388, proposed by State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan of Elkhorn, seeks [...]
The EPIC Tax proposal was being discussed during the North Platte Rotary meeting on Wednesday. EPIC or Eliminate Property Income (and inheritance), and Corporate taxes is tax program to EPIC purports to replace all of this [...]
An increase in sales taxes is a must, according to Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, if the state wants to see substantiative property tax relief. "It's a simple thing," he told KETV on [...]
A longtime lobbyist says a broad array of Nebraskans’ everyday purchases and services logically would be subject to the consumption taxes a statewide petition drive’s leaders want enacted. Korby Gilbertson of Lincoln [...]
Two organizations often on the opposite ends of most economic issues facing the state are mostly on the same page criticizing the emerging version of the governor’s property tax relief plan. The [...]
A property tax relief package advanced by a legislative committee Thursday is projected to lower local school taxes by a half or more by raising the state sales tax by up to [...]
School property taxes would drop by more than 45% statewide while state sales taxes could go up as much as 1 cent under a tax plan advanced Thursday by the Legislature’s Revenue [...]
A proposal to increase sales and cigarette taxes in order to lower property taxes is headed to the Nebraska Legislature for debate. Sales taxes could increase by up to a penny on [...]
The Nebraska Legislature's Revenue Committee signed off on a major property tax relief plan. Lawmakers have just 12 days left in the session to debate and vote on the package. It calls [...]
A legislative package aimed at taking an axe to property taxes advanced out of committee on Thursday. Governor Jim Pillen, who has been at advocating for the package since the beginning of [...]