A coalition of public sector unions in Connecticut are running advertisements on television and social media calling for increasing taxes on the wealthy and list off the names of Connecticut’s billionaires they feel should be targeted. The ads come just two months after state employees received a second 3.5 percent ...
Connecticut homeowners pay 20 percent more in property taxes than residents of its nearest neighbors, even as home values in the Nutmeg State have declined, according to a new study released Wednesday. “As a percentage of housing value, Connecticut homeowners now pay 20 percent more than New Yorkers and almost ...
Barring another extension of Gov. Ned Lamont’s executive order, Connecticut’s 10 cent tax on single-use plastic grocery bags will return on Wednesday, July 1. Lamont initially suspended the plastic bag tax until May 15 in response to concerns that reusable shopping bags might put grocery store workers at risk of ...
The Connecticut Department of Revenue Services paid more than $12 million in interest for tax refunds totaling nearly $5 billion because they withheld some refunds for upwards of seven years, according to a new audit. The audit listed tax refunds from years 2014 through 2018 and found that late returns ...
The Connecticut Office of Policy and Management is searching for a vendor who could analyze and model a complicated new taxation strategy that would replace part of the income tax with a payroll tax. If implemented, the new tax structure could result in employees seeing a pay reduction of 5 ...
“Raising taxes in response to this economic downturn ignores twelve years of Connecticut’s economic and fiscal history – and will only chop any chance of recovery off at the knees. Connecticut now has an opportunity to gain wealthy residents fleeing New York City and thereby increase its high-income tax base. ...