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An effort to forgo sales taxes on digital goods and services has stalled while state budget analysts try to figure out how much Arizona may stand to lose in tax revenue.
Read More »Lack of impact data stalls bills to bar digital goods’ tax 
Lack of impact data stalls bills to bar digital goods’ tax
Legislature joins push to delicense, deregulate all sorts of professions and jobs
If there’s a professional license, there’s probably an Arizona lawmaker who wonders if it should exist.
Read More »Legislators’ complaints of lawbreaking by cities on the upswing
Bisbee is one of eight municipalities or counties in the state whose laws have been targeted by state legislators under SB1487, a 2016 law that allows any state legislator to ask the attorney general to investigate an ordinance.
Read More »Let’s use road funds on roads
The ink is barely dry on the budget when residents of our 91 cities and towns and 15 counties register their complaints with local officials about streets and roads showing signs of age, inadequate maintenance and disrepair.
Read More »Patrice Kraus
In the kingdom of term limits and constant turnovers, institutional knowledge is king. And few can match Patrice Kraus’ experience, skill and political acumen as a lobbyist.
Read More »Petersen asks Brnovich to probe Bisbee’s plastic bags ban
Sen. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, has filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office and asked if the City of Bisbee’s ban on single-use plastic bags violates state laws.
Read More »Passage of election consolidation – from the Capitol to the courthouse
Republicans who pushed for Senate Bill 1152 intending to spark a lawsuit over consolidated elections will likely get their wish.
Read More »New session, old story – cities, counties fend off Legislature’s reach
The League of Arizona Cities and Towns and the Arizona Association of Counties fended off a bonding plan that would have allowed the state’s three public universities to keep the sales taxes they ordinarily would have paid to the state, cities and counties.
Read More »Ken Strobeck: Fighting for cities’ rights – and riding a motorcycle
For the past 11 years, Ken Strobeck has fought for cities’ rights at the Legislature as the director of the League of Arizona Cities and Towns. Strobeck spoke to the Arizona Capitol Times about the tension between states and cities, his time in the Oregon Legislature and motorcycles.
Read More »Special session not needed, apparently
DOR last week decided to put part of Brewer’s 2013 TPT reform package on hold for a year. In an Oct. 7 letter to League of Arizona Cities and Towns Executive Director Ken Strobeck, DOR Director David Raber said the agency is delaying the implementation of the single point of administration provision for one year
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