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State Layoff Count Down Slightly by Staff Posted: Aug 5, 2011 12:37pm
Twenty-four state layoffs were rescinded over the last week
to account for agencies that chose to leave vacant the positions of some
recently-retired workers, placing the layoff total at 2,984 on Wednesday, the
Office of Policy and Management said.
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Report: CT Business Taxes
Lowest of Any State by Hugh McQuaid
| Aug 4, 2011 5:38pm
Last year
state and local business taxes made up only 3.3 percent of Connecticut’s private sector economic
activity, making it the state with the lowest business tax burden in the
country, according to a report by the Council on State Taxation.
The
Washington D.C. - based nonprofit compared
the corporation business tax among states along with a host
of other taxes that impact businesses including property taxes, sales taxes on
business inputs, and unemployment insurance as well as others.
It found
that Connecticut
ranked at the bottom of the country for tax burdens on businesses, well below
the national average of 5 percent of private sector activity.
In a summary
of the report the nonprofit think tank Connecticut
Voices for Children said the findings were evidence that business taxes are not
the root of the state’s persistently high unemployment rate.
“The point
we’re trying to make with this report is you hear all this talk about Connecticut having the
highest taxes on businesses. It’s unfounded if you look at it,” said Wade
Gibson, a senior policy fellow for the group. Continued at …. http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/ctnj.php/archives/entry/report_ct_business_taxes_lowest_of_any_state/#more
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Obama’s Heating Oil Cut indefensible; Okay, What About Malloy’s?
by Jonathan Pelto Posted: Aug 4,
2011 3:39pm
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State Fines Unregistered Companies $1.3 Million by Hugh McQuaid | Aug 4, 2011
2:10pm