The Thicket at State Legislatures
While the federal tax code may be complicated, state tax laws can be just as convoluted. Read about these twelve strange state tax laws and how they are generating tax income in ways that are both bizarre and entertaining.
According toNew York State’s Vehicle and Traffic Law Section 375 (12-a),a vehicle’s windshield (front window) or side windows cannot block more than 30 percent of the light coming into a car. This means at least 70 percent of light must come through the vehicle’s windows. This law ...
The Multistate Tax alert archive includes external tax alerts issued by Deloitte Tax LLP's Multistate Tax practice during the last four years. These external alerts highlight selected developments involving state tax legislative, judicial, and administrative matters. The alerts provide a brief summ...
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Let’s say you open aCertificate of Deposit (CD)which pays 5 percent simple interest if you agree to keep your money in the CD for a year. If you deposit $1,000 in January, you’d have $1,050 at the end of the year. That’s $50 more than you started with, so you might dec...
State abbreviation/Postal code: N.Y./NYState Area Code: 718Nickname: The Empire StateOrigin of name: In honor of the Duke of YorkMotto:“Excelsior (English: ever upward)”Slogan: "I Love New York"State symbols: Animal Beaver (1975) Fish Brook trout (1975) Gem Garnet (1969) Flower ...
14 issue White bemoaned the loss of the American elm (of the 77 million elms in North America in 1930, more than 75 percent were lost to Dutch elm disease by 1989), the dangers of pesticide use, and other maladies. Excerpts: APPLE OF HIS EYE…E.B. White had reason to be concerned ...
Dec. 14, 1929 cover byTheodore Haupt.Opening image: Construction workers line up for pay beside the first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York in 1931. (NY Daily News) For the Dec. 14 issue White attempted to strike a positive note in the aftermath of the stock market crash, off...
which monitors the availability and sharing of tax parcel data statewide, shows that nearly 50 percent of NYS counties are making tax parcel data available for free through various means. Great strides being made perhaps suggesting that one day the barriers prohibiting the sharing of parcel data ac...