A bill aimed at collecting sales tax on purchases from Amazon and other online merchants advanced out of the Arkansas House Revenue and Tax Committee Thursday after having failed to pass three times before in the same committee. Each time the previous…
March 31, 2017
by Ibby Caputo
A bill aimed at collecting sales tax on online purchases failed to pass an Arkansas House committee on a 6-2 vote Tuesday.
February 14, 2017
by Ibby Caputo
A bill that would require shoppers to pay Arkansas sales tax on online purchases passed in the House 54-26 Tuesday. House Bill 1388 would require out-of-state online retailers who do not already collect sales and use tax in the state…
February 7, 2017
by Ibby Caputo
Arkansas is one step closer to casting a wider net when it comes to collecting sales tax. A bill aimed at raising state revenue through the collection of sales and use tax on online purchases passed 23-9 in the Senate…
February 7, 2017
by Ibby Caputo
Two bills aimed at raising state revenue through the collection of sales and use tax on online purchases cleared their first hurdles this week.
February 3, 2017
by Brooke Nelson and Ibby Caputo
A bill that would exempt military retirement pay and survivor benefits from state income taxes passed on a voice vote with no dissent in the House Revenue and Tax Committee Thursday.
January 27, 2017
by Ibby Caputo
Governor's Hutchinson's tax cut for low-income earners advanced on a voice vote in the Senate Revenue and Tax committee Wednesday at the state Capitol.
January 18, 2017
by Ibby Caputo
Several state legislators who had been critical of Governor Hutchinson’s $50 million tax cut for Arkansas’s lowest earners now say they will support the plan.
January 16, 2017
by Ibby Caputo
Rep. Warwick Sabin (D-Little Rock) has filed alternative legislation to Governor Hutchinson’s proposed $50 million tax cut on Arkansans who earn less than $21,000. The Working Families Opportunity Act would establish a state Earned Income Tax Credit.
January 12, 2017
by Ibby Caputo