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The New York Superior Court recently heard oral arguments in the state's so-called "Amazon tax" case about a law requiring out-of-state online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases if the company generates a certain amount of revenue from in-state sales...

A jury recently awarded more than 170 Texas cities $20 million in a dispute against online travel companies over hotel taxes. Not long after, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum filed suit against Expedia and Orbitz...

The Institute for Wisconin's Future has issued a report criticizing the Tax Foundation's State Business Tax Climate Index as a "poison pill" for the state...

G-20 officials met over the weekend to discuss aspects of the financial crisis, including ways to raise revenue for future bailouts—not even pretending this won't be a regular job for future government.  One idea is a Tobin tax—named after Nobel prize winning (1981) economist James Tobin—on global...

Tax Foundation Director of Policy and Communications Bill Ahern discusses "jock taxes" on FoxBusiness.com LIVE:   Watch the latest business video at <a href="http://video.foxbusiness.com/" ...

Spain has been able to at least temporarily avoid a strike in their professional soccer league, La Liga.  The dispute is not between owners and players, but rather between the owners and the government.  From the NY Times: The tax break was introduced in 2004 to lure top-notch foreign expertise, bu...

Republicans in Congress are vehemently opposed to the Pelosi and Baucus health care reform proposals. They correctly argue that each would lead to large tax increases...

Of the tax refunds mailed out by the IRS, 107,831 worth $123.5 million were returned as undeliverable. If you're expecting one that hasn't come, update your mailing address, or check on the status of the refund, at the IRS website here.

Professor Mitchell Moss writes in support of a bailout of dumb transit agency leaseback deals that have gone sour, arguing that yes they screwed up but bearing the costs of that screw-up would be too harmful: As the nation climbs out of one of its toughest economic crises ever, we cannot be lulled...

From The New Mexican's Steve Terrell: But with all financial bills fair game in the regular 30-day session — and the budget crisis continuing — [Rep. Br...

The Onion has an amusing infographic on what taxes states are raising to cover budget shortfalls. Click on the image for a link to the full graphic. Vermont's especially has some truth to it...

The Tax Foundation has received requests as to the amount of federal individual income taxes that are paid by those that would be hit by the proposed surtax in the House health care bill...

On this week's Tax Policy Podcast, Jim Pethokoukis, the Money & Politics columnist and blogger for Reuters, discusses health care reform, the deficit, economic recovery and the possibility of a federal value added tax (VAT)...