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A House committee has revived the local option sales tax. The initiative allowing communities to vote on temporary sales tax increases tied to specific…
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The local options sales tax – once chugging along at a good clip in Frankfort – appears to have stalled for good in the Kentucky Senate.Support for the…
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A letter sent to state lawmakers by Ford, General Electric, and other major utility users could spell trouble for a local option sales tax bill. Once…
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The Local Option Sales Tax had trouble gaining traction in Frankfort during the last legislative session, but backers see an opening this year as…
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Lexington Mayor Jim Gray and his Louisville counterpart Greg Fischer lobbied hard for what’s called a “local option sales tax” in the 2014 session, but to…
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Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo is putting his political clout behind a proposal to allow local governments to temporarily raise taxes to help pay for…
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Supporters of a Local Sales Tax option for Kentucky communities are hopeful they might have better luck in the General Assembly in 2015. Lexington Mayor…
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Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo says House Democrats' top priority for the 2015 legislative session could be the local option sales tax.Stumbo had…
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This week we discuss two business measures being debated in Frankfort and the expansion of Best Of Bluegrass later this summer.Erik Carlson is the editor…
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Tuesday brought good news and bad news for supporters of a Local Option Sales Tax in Kentucky. The tax legislation successfully emerged from a House…