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Patrick hints at hike in gas tax

Source: The Boston Globe

Boston : MA : USA | 5 months ago

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Governor Deval Patrick signed a budget yesterday that imposes more than $1 billion in additional taxes on Massachusetts residents and visitors, most of it through the first increase in the state sales tax in 33 years, even as he declined to rule out a future boost in the state gas tax. Patrick,...

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Milford Daily News, Massachusetts: DeLeo: Delivering 'true reform' in a ...

News Source: Uinta County News | 5 months ago

Faced with one of the most difficult financial downturns in the history of our Commonwealth, we have worked to pass sensible legislation to guide us through these trying times. The House budget was perhaps one of the most difficult in our state's...
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News Source: The Arlington Advocate | 5 months ago

Gov. Deval Patrick approved over $1 billion in new taxes and issued roughly $147 million in line item vetoes Monday, signing a budget for the fiscal year that begins Wednesday that aides said would represent the first year-to-year spending reduction...
Patrick hints at hike in gas tax

News Source: The Boston Globe | 5 months ago

Governor Deval Patrick signed a budget yesterday that imposes more than $1 billion in additional taxes on Massachusetts residents and visitors, most of it through the first increase in the state sales tax in 33 years, even as he declined to rule out...
CBS 4 Boston (WBZ): Some Of The Vetoes Issued By Gov. Deval Patrick

News Source: Androscoggin News | 5 months ago

In most cases, Patrick said the cuts would reduce spending to the level he first proposed or to a level projected to be necessary...The vetoes would: â Reduce spending on home care case management by $1.5 million; â Cut $1.5 million from...
Yahoo! Finance: Patrick: Don't expect Mass. sales tax holiday

News Source: Uinta County News | 5 months ago

Don't count on another sales tax holiday this summer in Massachusetts. Gov. Deval Patrick signed a 25-percent hike in the state's sales tax into law on Monday, and it will take effect on Aug. 1. That's two weeks before the Legislature has in recent...
NBC 22 Springfield (WWLP): Masspike toll hike scrapped

News Source: Androscoggin News | 5 months ago

The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority has eliminated a planned toll hike hours before Gov. Deval Patrick signs a state budget that includes a 25 percent hike in the state sales tax. The Turnpike board met Monday morning and approved a budget that...