Unwilling to even consider a gas tax hike, Gov. Doug Ducey is now counting on the Trump administration to help Arizona deal with its road-construction needs.
Read More »Court of Appeals hears challenge to Medicaid expansion affecting hundreds of thousands 
With former Gov. Jan Brewer watching over the defense of her legacy, a panel of appeals court judges grilled a lawyer who argued the Medicaid expansion Brewer shepherded into law is unconstitutional.
Read More »Department of Revenue put wrong numbers on tax refund forms
The Department of Revenue put the wrong numbers on those 1099-G forms, the ones that are supposed to tell you how much of a refund you got in 2016 on your 2015 taxes.
Read More »Lawmaker seeks road tax hike
The new head of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure wants a dime a gallon increase in the state gasoline tax.
Read More »Arizonans face steep costs to catch up with transportation needs
Financing the state’s freeway needs could mean Arizona motorists will pay higher gasoline taxes, an entirely new sales tax on fuel on top of that and find it’s even more expensive to register their vehicles.
Read More »House approves experimental flat tax
So here's a simple way to figure your taxes: List what you make, deduct $10,000 and pay 1 percent of that to the state.
Read More »State tax amnesty program strikes gold
Department of Revenue spokesman Sean Laux said Tuesday agency officials had tallied more than $46 million in payments from an amnesty program when the window closed Monday night. That's more than three times as much as lawmakers assumed they would get when the approved the effort earlier this year.
Read More »Douglas: Funding K-12 education with pot initiative ‘evil’
A voter initiative that would legalize marijuana in Arizona and add a tax to help fund education has an adamant opponent in the state superintendent of public instruction.
Read More »Tax or no tax?
Attorneys squared off in Maricopa County Superior Court today for the long-awaited oral arguments in Biggs v. Betlach, the Medicaid expansion case. Perhaps the most pressing issue in the oral arguments was whether the hospital assessment, used to fund the state’s share of the cost of the 2013 expansion program, should be considered a tax.
Read More »No health insurance? Penalties to rise in 2015
The cost of being uninsured in America is going up significantly next year for millions of people. It's the first year all taxpayers have to report to the Internal Revenue Service whether they had health insurance for the previous year, as required under President Barack Obama's law. Those who were uninsured face fines, unless they qualify for one of about 30 exemptions, most of which involve financial hardships.
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