The Senate Finance Committee advanced a pay raise bill for public employees, but with a twist. The Senate’s version of the bill would tie an average 4% […]
Tag: personal income tax
House Finance advances bill to phase out income tax on Social Security
Gov. Jim Justice’s call to eliminate the personal income tax on Social Security has become a three-year phase-out under a bill advanced Friday by the House Finance […]
WV Center on Budget & Policy comes to town to talk tax cuts, budget surpluses and alternate ideas to use state money
MORGANTOWN – The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy came to Morgantown Thursday evening to critique the tax cut plans brewing in the Legislature and to […]
Senate panel OKs bill to allow medical expense deductions from state income taxes; and one to permit health care sharing ministries
MORGANTOWN – A bill to allow state residents to deduct medical expenses from their sate income taxes left senators who voted for it wondering how much it […]
Tax cuts would line richest’s pockets, drain state coffers
Yesterday, Gov. Jim Justice’s personal income tax cut, introduced as HB 2526, passed the House of Delegates and moved on to the Senate, where we’re sure it […]
House moves tax bill to brink of passage
A week into the regular legislative session, debate over Gov. Jim Justice’s proposal to cut personal income taxes by half over three years is on maximum. The […]
Justice tops State of the State by proposing 50% personal income tax cut
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice topped a long list of State of the State legislative proposals with a 50% personal income tax cut. Justice addressed a joint […]
Hospital COVID numbers climbing; new variant taking over; Justice retooling his briefings
MORGANTOWN — COVID hospitalizations have tripled since Thanksgiving, a new variant is on the loose, and Gov. Jim Justice is rebranding his twice-weekly briefings in acknowledgement of […]
Justice again defends his tax plan, opposes Amendment 2 during address at Independence Hall in Wheeling
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice took his “food fight” – as he’s been calling it – with the Senate over Amendment 2 to another level on Thursday. […]
Justice addresses rumors regarding CDC COVID immunization vote, touts his car tax bill
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice on Monday added his 2 cents to the raging debate about the CDC’s latest COVID vaccine action, and took another swipe in […]
