By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After lawmakers pushed back on his original 2017-18 West Virginia budget plan, Gov. Jim Justice on Monday unveiled a second version that reduces proposed increases in sales taxes, gas taxes and business gross receipts taxes, and makes up some of the difference[Read More…]
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Justice presents new budget plan, includes cigarette, sugary drinks taxes
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Creating a sugary drinks tax and increasing the cigarette tax are two proposals Gov. Jim Justice suggested Monday as part of his alternative path to resolve the budget. Justice joined Department of Revenue Secretary Dave Hardy in a press conference to give[Read More…]
Senate committee takes up bill to eliminate income tax
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Senate committee discussed a bill that would eliminate the personal income tax and replace it with a consumption tax. Mike Caryl, former state Tax Commissioner and a retained consultant to the committee, discussed the committee substitute for Senate Bill 335 during[Read More…]
Legislature roundup
The Dominion Post Bills introduced on Feb. 27 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Here are some bills introduced Feb. 27. Local lead sponsors and co-sponsors are noted. SB 446, a governor’s bill to authorize him to furlough state workers in the wake of the budget crisis. Part of the budgetary chess game[Read More…]
GOP legislators not sold on new state budget plan
By IAN HICKS The Weirton Daily Times WHEELING, W.Va. — State Sen. Ryan Weld wants to know where funding to purchase new West Virginia State Police cruisers will come from if motor vehicle inspections are only required once every three years, as Gov. Jim Justice recommended Monday in his latest[Read More…]
WV Gov. Justice presents Budget Plan 2.0
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal Faced with legislative opposition to his original budget plan, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice presented a second budget proposal on Monday, Feb. 27. “It’s another pathway,” Justice said at an afternoon news conference where he again utilized a white board and dry erase markers[Read More…]
Gov. Justice proposes new vehicle fees
By BETH HENRY-VANCE The Weirton Daily Times CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginians would drive on state toll roads for free but pay more for vehicle registration fees under state budget alternatives presented in a news briefing Monday by Gov. Jim Justice. The proposals include updates to West Virginia’s “Save Our State[Read More…]
Justice puts off income tax overhaul
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice said Monday he would ultimately like to phase out the state income tax when the state’s financial picture stabilizes, but said it would be “phenomenally risky” to make major overhauls of state tax law in the midst of the[Read More…]
WV Senate OKs right-to-work clarification bill
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — On a party-line 22-12 vote, the West Virginia Senate on Monday passed legislation to retroactively clean up ambiguous sections of the state’s right-to-work law — a new law currently being challenged in Kanawha Circuit Court (SB 330). In obtaining a preliminary injunction[Read More…]
Houses passes bill dealing with ethics provisions
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill that would prohibit nepotism under the state Ethics Act. All 98 delegates present voted to pass House Bill 2001. Delegate John Shott, R-Mercer, said the goal of the bill is to rebuild public[Read More…]
