Eric P. Newcomer

Updated: Thu, Mar 28, 2013

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray is calling on the city to increase funding for a number of programs, including millions for affordable housing, without raising taxes. In his proposed $10.1 billion budget for fiscal year 2014, Gray called Thursday for the elimination of a tax on income from...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Wed, Mar 27, 2013

For the uninitiated, the District's fiscal year 2014 budget will read like an impenetrable tome when it's released Thursday. But for District political watchers, the multibillion-dollar proposal will offer a line-by-line declaration of Mayor Vincent Gray's priorities. Each council member knows...

Andy Brownfield

Published: Wed, Mar 27, 2013

ANNAPOLIS -- The leader of Maryland's Senate told reporters Wednesday that he expects a bill that would provide much-needed revenue for transportation projects to pass his chamber as early as this week. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., D-Prince George's and Calvert counties, said...

Andy Brownfield

Published: Tue, Mar 26, 2013

ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland residents face a 4-cent increase in a gallon of gasoline come July, the latest in a succession of 32 new and increased taxes and fees that Gov. Martin O'Malley has imposed since he took office in 2007. The most recent of the $2.3 billion in higher taxes came last year,...

Steve Contorno

Published: Tue, Mar 26, 2013

Virginians will soon pay more at the checkout counter, and Marylanders are bracing for higher gas prices as the Beltway neighbors invoke or consider imposing tax increases to fix their crumbling, crowded roads. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on Tuesday presented mostly minor amendments to a...

Andy Brownfield

Published: Tue, Mar 26, 2013

ANNAPOLIS -- Members of a Senate panel voiced concern Tuesday that money funded by a proposed increase in the state gasoline tax would go toward mass transit instead of roads. Members of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee questioned whether the projected $4.3 billion that would be raised...

Steve Contorno

Published: Sun, Mar 24, 2013

Is the Berger cookie in trouble? DeBaufre Bakeries, the Baltimore company that makes the historic treat, is well behind in its taxes. According to the Baltimore Sun, the bakery owes the IRS $109,000 in back taxes dating to 2009. It has been a rough stretch for the bakery, which had to close...

Matt Connolly

Published: Sat, Mar 23, 2013

Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker is pushing a statewide bag tax a year after the county's bid to implement one died in Annapolis. The bill, proposed by 34 state delegates, would tack on a 5-cent fee to every disposable bag Maryland consumers get at the store. Baker has long...

Kate Jacobson

Published: Sat, Mar 23, 2013

A proposed Montgomery County bill would cost churches and nonprofit organizations thousands of dollars a year in taxes to improve the county's water quality, raising ire among residents and lawmakers. A proposed expansion of the Water Quality Protection Charge -- dubbed the "rain tax" by...

Taylor Holland

Published: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

Reduced library hours, fewer polling locations and the elimination of school resource officers are among the cuts that Fairfax County's top appointed official thought would be too much to bear when drafting next year's budget. Instead, County Executive Ed Long opted to raise residents'...