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Earle Wesley Albee, Sr. (March 17, 1898 [1] – February 10, 1963) was an American politician and restaurant owner from Hallowell, Maine. Albee, a Republican from Portland, served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1949 to 1954 and in the Maine Senate from 1955 to 1956. During his time in office, Albee was a proponent of Maine adopting ...
The highest sales tax in Washington is on liquor. The spirits sales tax is 20.5% of the value of the product purchased [216] and a $3.7708 per liter spirits liter tax is assessed on spirits sold to consumers. [217] 1 April 2008 saw tax increases in King County (+.001), Kittitas County (+.003), Mason County (+.001), and the city of Union Gap ...
Woodbury's tax plan called for the reduction in the state's income tax and increased consumption taxes as well as eliminating Maine's estate tax. The Portland Press Herald said the plan sought "to slash the state's income tax rate in half and make a host of other sweeping changes, including raising sales and excise taxes and eliminating ...
In 2013, MacDonald introduced a bill that would allow localities in Maine to increase the sales tax in their region, keeping the revenues. The bill passed 101-48 in the Maine House of Representatives, but failed in the Maine Senate. [13]
From an entity's perspective, the shift from sales to use tax is the equivalent of shifting from an expense account (profit and loss statement implication) to a liability account (balance sheet implication). To illustrate sales tax, if company XYZ, Inc. purchased $40 of office supplies from an in-state vendor that collected $10 of sales tax:
Tax increment financing in the state of Maine allows a town or city to define, after applying to the state, a certain region or business within its borders as a TIF district. The local tax revenues generated by that district are, one, dedicated to a specific project or economic development fund, and two, are not counted towards the municipality ...
Abolishing the state income tax, 2002 ballot; Sale of wine by food stores, 2006 ballot; 2008 Massachusetts Question 1, the Massachusetts State Income Tax Repeal Initiative; 2010 Massachusetts Question 1, the Massachusetts No Sales Tax for Alcohol Initiative; 2012 Massachusetts Question 1, the Massachusetts Right to Repair Initiative (2012)
Alcohol sales were previously prohibited until 9 a.m. on Sundays. In 2013 an exception was made to allow sales starting at 6 a.m. when St. Patrick's Day falls on a Sunday. [8] In 2015 the legislature revised the law again to allow sales on any Sunday starting at 5 a.m., the same as every other day of the week. [9]