Tax Plan Receives Speedy Overhaul ; State House: To Win Votes, the Tax-Reform Bill's Backers Make an 11th-Hour Effort to Scale It Back.
Portland Press Herald › June 20, 2007
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Backers of a much-maligned tax-reform plan continued to retreat Tuesday as they scrambled to win votes in the Legislature by further reducing the number of services they want to tax.
But that has created a whole new set of problems, prompting key business leaders and other skeptics to argue that the plan is being reshaped too quickly for anyone to thoroughly analyze the changes in the dying days of the legislative session.See the full content of this document
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Tax Plan Receives Speedy Overhaul ; State House: To Win Votes, the Tax-Reform Bill's Backers Make an 11th-Hour Effort to Scale It Back.
The session is supposed to end today, although that seems increasingly unrealistic.
"Time isn't on our side," said Dana Connors of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, which is part of a coalition of business groups that oppose the original bill because of its content and the revised bill becaus...See the full content of this document
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