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May 16, 2016

CRAWFORD: State tax study should include local governments as well

BILL CRAWFORD: City, county taxes need study, too Legislators have been worse than reluctant to provide other options to local government for additional revenues. Municipalities’ efforts to gain authority to implement local option sales taxes go nowhere. This year, a modest request to increase the portion of sales taxes going to municipalities from 18.5 percent…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 16, 2016

LG Reeves on state budget, cuts: While going to experience growing pains, taxpayers better off

Analysis: 2016 budget still grim, and 2017 looking ugly, too Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, for example, disputes the idea that less state spending is to blame for changes at the Department of Mental Health. He says the agency, which announced a series of service cuts last week, will actually come out $1 million ahead in…