Blog tagged as Taxation

Forty-three percent of Michiganders had negative feelings toward replacing the state's gas tax with a road usage charge (RUC) when first asked about the idea by the state's transportation department.

East Lansing's 5 percent franchise fee for Lansing Board of Water & Light (LBWL) customers is a tax, the Michigan Supreme Court held on Monday.

Diapers, bottles, child seats, breast milk pumps and other baby/toddler care items would be exempt from Michigan’s sales tax under bills introduced by three House Republicans as part of three family-centered cost-saving proposals.

Constitutionally speaking, Michigan government could be taxing its residents much more than it is. A lot more.

A conversation-starter proposal to raise the state’s 6 percent corporate income tax (CIT) to 10 percent with the additional revenue going to give public school teachers an estimated $20,000-a-year raise was circulated on the House floor today for co-sponsorship.