State and Local Taxes

States could see reduced consumer spending in 2014 if a federal tax deduction is allowed to expire.

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's proposed budget for the next biennium totals nearly $96 billion, an increase from the $86 billion for the current two-year cycle that runs through June 2014.

Bloomberg BNA has named that Paul Frankel as the recipient of the 2013 Franklin C. Latcham Award for Distinguished Service in State and Local Taxation. Frankel is senior counsel with Morrison and Foerster's State + Local Tax Group and former Chairman of Bloomberg BNA's State and Local Tax Advisory Board.

Santa Fe's plastic-bag ban is still a few months away, but city officials are getting the ball rolling on ways to prepare the City Different for the looming change.

Pennsylvania property owners have long been clamoring for a change in the way public education is funded.

Detroit has paid nearly $11 million through Oct. 1 to the Jones Day law firm, more than double the amount paid so far to any other of the city's restructuring and bankruptcy consultants or law firms.

He has millions of dollars in his campaign account, solid approval ratings and a small number of potential challengers who are virtually unknown, but

California: Proposed vehicle license fee hike would raise $3 billion a year to fix roads