Soft Drink Tax (HB 1679)

On February 4,2010 the House Ways and Means Committee will hold a an executive session on HB 1679 in Room 202 of the LOB at 10:00 AM. This bill establishes a soft drinks tax. Revenues from the tax shall be deposited in a fund dedicated to obesity prevention and...

Current Use Under Fire

Are current use taxes about to go up? Apparently the DRA would like them to. “Under New Hampshire’s current use law, owners of qualifying land receive property tax reductions if they agree to maintain their land in an undeveloped condition, but proposed new...

Lynch Claims Budget is Balanced

But former Budget Director says otherwise… (CONCORD) In his annual State of the State address to the Legislature, New Hampshire Governor John Lynch stated that “In 2009, the worst year of the recession, we balanced the budget.” But Lynch’s former Budget Director...

State GOP Denounces Secret Meetings

NHGOP REQUESTS RECORDS REGARDING DEMOCRATS’ BACKROOM LLC INCOME TAX MEETING Also Calls on Jeff Goley To Denounce His Party’s Secret Briefing On Disastrous Small Business Income Tax CONCORD – The New Hampshire Republican State Committee today filed public records...

Speaker Holds Clandestine Meeting on LLC Tax

by James E. Rivers You can chalk up another one for “transparency in government” in the New Hampshire House of Representatives today. In a private, closed-door, session in Concord, Speaker Terie Norelli brought together House Democrats on both the Joint Legislative...

Lawmakers Lying

From businessmen fighting the LLC Tax The leaders of the Ways and Means Committee had a secret meeting on Wednesday to discuss the new “Rules” by which the State is going to impose this new Small Business Income Tax aka the LLC tax. What they really did...