Two months ago, the state tax department overseen by Gov. Jim Justice’s administration filed seven liens for unpaid sales taxes amounting to $3.5 million owed by The Greenbrier Hotel Corp., which is owned by Justice’s family. Merchants collect sales taxes from customers but that’s ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Hoppy is on vacation this week. This column originally published on March 22. The news that the Greenbrier Hotel Corp. failed to pay five months of sales taxes due the state last year is not surprising. Hardly a week goes by that there is not a revelation or legal action ...
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 ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginians in need of materials for the upcoming school year will be able to save money beginning Friday and all weekend during the state’s back-to-school Sales Tax Holiday. The holiday runs through Monday. During the holiday, certain back-to-school items are ...
CHARLESTON — NFIB State Director Gil White said West Virginia’s upcoming sales tax holiday on clothes, school supplies, sports equipment and computers is a chance for people to support small businesses rocked by the series of economic setbacks that began with the COVID-19 pandemic in ...
MORGANTOWN — Legislative Democrats on Tuesday presented a plan to use a portion of the state's budget surplus to reduce the sales tax. “Folks are struggling just to pay their bills. This is going to help ease that burden,” said Senate Minority Leader Stephen Baldwin, ...