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MINI-CASSIA OFFICIALS: FIGHT REPEAL OF PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX

  • Laurie Welch reports:  County and city officials across Mini-Cassia urged their residents Friday, Feb. 8, to fight a legislative effort to modify Idaho’s personal

MANY OF IDAHO’S TOP BUSINESS PROPERTY TAX PAYERS KEEP MUM ON PUSH FOR REPEAL

  • Molly Messick reports:  Not long ago, Sen. John Tippets (R-Montpelier) found himself in a peculiar spot. This summer and fall, influential lawmakers and the Idaho

IDAHO FARM LEADERS KEEP AN EYE ON TAX REPEAL EFFORT

  • Sean Ellis reports:  An expected push to repeal the state’s personal property tax this year has some farm leaders alarmed because of concern about

REV & TAX OVERWHELMINGLY BACKS GOVERNOR’S HOME TAX CREDIT REVISIONS

  • Betsy Russell reports:  The House Revenue & Taxation Committee has voted overwhelmingly in favor of HB 88, the governor’s bill to revise and expand

TASK FORCE’S $34 MILLION IS ON THE TABLE

  • Jennifer Swindell reports:  The governor’s Education Task Force will not make recommendations to the 2013 Legislature, leaving $34 million in legislative limbo. Gov. Butch

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES SOLD IN IDAHO? THERE’S A TAX ON THAT

  • Emilie Ritter Saunders reports:  For cookie connoisseurs, this might be the best time of year. It’s Girl Scout cookie season. Starting next week, Idaho

IDAHO REPUBLICAN PARTY ENCOURAGES LAWMAKERS TO REJECT GOV. OTTER’S HEALTH EXCHANGE

  • Emilie Ritter Saunders reports:  Idaho Republican Party chairman Barry Peterson says the GOP’s position on creating a state-based health insurance exchange is “clear and irrefutable”. In

GOV. OTTER’S HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE PLAN MOVES FORWARD

  • Emilie Ritter Saunders reports:  Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s health insurance exchange plan will move forward for a full vote in the Idaho Senate. Lawmakers on the

THERE ARE “A LOT OF QUESTIONS” ON THE PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX, SAYS REP. COLLINS

  • Molly Messick reports:  Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter made a little news yesterday with his uncertainty about whether lawmakers will come up with a plan for phasing

REINKE: NEW PLAN NEEDED ‘SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A FELON’ TO RECEIVE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN IDAHO

  • Betsy Russell reports:  Idaho state Corrections Director Brent Reinke, who is making his budget pitch to lawmakers this morning, noted that just yesterday, he

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