Taxes

Legislature considers a study that could help address property taxes. First it must narrow its focus so it has a chance to make a difference.

New legislation gives a wider window of time before business tax rates spike to try and replenish the state's Unemployment Trust Fund.

A new report finds casual smugglers are going to states with low tobacco taxes to buy cigarettes and bring them back to New Jersey.

The Transportation and Climate Initative would be an alliance of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. It could add 17 cents to a gallon of gas.

The report, which evaluates funding fairness and effectiveness under the state's School Funding Reform Act, suggests New Jersey was spending less aggregate personal income on K-12 education in 2018 than it was prior to the Great Recession.

TRENTON — Gov. Phil Murphy paid about $1 million in state and federal taxes in 2019 on roughly $2.7 million in income, according to a summary of his tax returns released by his office.
Murphy worked as an executive at Goldman Sachs before he served as Barack Obama's ambassador to Germany and made the…

A bill being introduced in Trenton this week by Republican lawmaker would put an end to the taxation of masks in New Jersey.

Voters will decide whether to expand the $250 veterans’ property tax deduction by making veterans eligible even if they didn’t serve during a time of war.

The Tax Foundation's annual report ranks New Jersey in the bottom 10 in four of the five categories it examines. The state has been 50th overall since 2015.

The report says our worst-in-the-nation business tax climate and student out-migration need to be addressed to improve things.