A veteran lawmaker is proposing what amounts to an end-run to allow some business owners to avoid paying the just-approved income tax surcharge for education.
Read More »Prop 208 heads to court
Top Republican legislative leaders filed suit Monday to block implementation of the voter-approved tax on the income of the wealthiest Arizonans.
Read More »Chamber late on spending report in challenge to education tax
A business group waited until three days before the election to file a report disclosing it’s dumping more than $8.6 million into a last-ditch effort to defeat Proposition 208.
Read More »Judge to decide whether tax on rich initiative used deceptive language 
Business interests trying to quash a vote on higher taxes on the rich sought to convince a judge Wednesday that extent and breadth of the proposed new levy is being purposely understated and misleading.
Read More »Groups challenge proposed ballot measures in court
Business groups are trying to keep Arizonans from voting on proposals to hike taxes on the most wealthy and give hospital workers a pay hike.
Read More »Campaign to tax rich for schools turns in signatures for ballot
The vast majority of Arizonans may get a chance to decide whether the top 4 percent of wage earners should be paying more to support education.
Read More »Schools gear up for next year, budgeting federal aid 
As teachers, students and their families eagerly wait to hear when they will return to the classroom, education policy wonks, advocates and school districts are trying to figure out how they’ll spend coming federal money.
Read More »Education groups not satisfied with Ducey’s budget increases 
Education groups are luke-warm to Gov. Doug Ducey’s proposed spending on public education for the 2021 fiscal-year.
Read More »GOP state senator to propose $300M in tax cuts
A Republican state senator, frustrated in his attempts to cut income taxes last year, plans to unveil a tax act that would cost the state nearly $300 million over the next three fiscal years.
Read More »Education groups consider measure to tax rich – and poor
The activists behind last year’s Invest in Education Act are considering a comeback – they’re eyeing a sales tax hike, an idea they have routinely rejected in the past as regressive and detrimental to the poor.
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