dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Following the lead of President Trump, state senators are considering a bill to exempt overtime pay from personal income tax. The Senate Workforce Committee OK'd SB 6010 on Monday and sent it to Senate Finance. The exemption would begin in the ...
CHARLESTON — State Senate President Craig Blair said his gut tells him the state cannot afford an additional 5% cut in the personal income tax but he’s willing to discuss it. Blair, during an appearance on MetroNews “Talkline” Tuesday, said Gov. Jim ...
CHARLESTON — The House of Delegates overwhelmingly passed a bill that would phase out state income taxes on Social Security benefits. The legislation would build on a 2019 bill signed into law by the governor to exempt Social Security income from personal income taxes for most West ...
There is a 0% chance that a proposal to eliminate the federal income tax and replace it with a massive national sales tax will even get out of the Republican-controlled House, let alone become law. But the fact that such a bluntly soak-the-poor idea is even getting an airing under new House ...
Gov. Jim Justice pitched his proposal for an income tax cut during his State of the State speech, and the House Finance Committee got it moving the very next day. A majority of House Finance Committee members voted to advance the tax proposal bill Thursday evening. The bill now goes to the ...
Gov. Jim Justice is fixated on getting rid of the state income tax. For some time now he has believed with great conviction that having West Virginia join the other seven states (Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming) that do not have a personal income tax is a key ...