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After consulting our futuristic cyber minions, we've got a pretty good idea of which StateImpact posts you liked best this week
After checking this week’s stats, we’ve got some clear winners for which posts drew the most eyes…and comments! If life happened to you and you missed our five most popular posts, you can catch up by clicking on the titles listed below:
US Senator Kelly Ayotte is pushing to keep the internet as much like New Hampshire as possible: Sales tax free
Earlier this week, we looked at how New Hampshire’s anti-tax attitude compares to other states. (You can read that post here.) Now, US Senator Kelly Ayotte is working on a bipartisan bill aimed at keeping internet sales (mostly) sales tax-free. Here’s what Kathleen Callahan reports for the New Hampshire Business Review:
“If U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte gets her way, New Hampshire retailers that sell their goods online to residents of other states won’t have to collect and remit sales taxes back to those states. Continue Reading →
Cigarette sales are down in New Hampshire, despite the recently lowered tax
By now, we imagine you’ve probably heard about the state’s $4 million revenue shortfall last month. New Hampshire’s major media outlets have been reporting on the issue since last night, and they’ve tended to zero-in on the same thing: Most of that lost revenue comes from lackluster cigarette sales. And, of course, this point raises the question: Was the Republican push to lower the cigarette tax by 10 cents last summer a bad idea?
Since there’s been so much number-heavy coverage on the issue between yesterday and today, we’ve decided to sift through it all so you won’t have to.
So without further ado…the highlights (or lowlights?) of October revenue. Continue Reading →
“About 300 owners lost their homes in September. That’s 8% less than a year ago. Until now, New Hampshire Housing has been reluctant to forecast how the year will end up. But with just three months left, it now expects to see about 3600 in 2011. Continue Reading →
This weekend's snow storm did some serious damage across New Hampshire.
Governor John Lynch is asking President Obama to declare an emergency for all New Hampshire counties as a result of last weekend’s severe snow storm. If the request is granted FEMA would give the state federal disaster aid to help deal with storm with damage. Continue Reading →
Weirs Beach is a main attraction in Laconia, which has seen a bit of a boom in its second home market.
Here at StateImpact, we’re interested in how second homes contribute to New Hampshire’s economy. With ten percent of the state’s housing stock made up of vacation homes, only two other states have a higher proportion secondary homes–Maine and Vermont.
As part of a series last summer on how the vacation home economy works in the state, we used data from the US Census to create an interactive map that shows, town by town, where these homes are concentrated. (You can check it out here.)
In that same post, we noted that New Hampshire saw a net increase in vacation homes of 13.3 percent, or 7,497 units statewide, since 2000.
StateImpact wants to know: Is New Hampshire really an anti-tax state?
I’ve written a few posts recently about Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan. (You can read the first post here.) The second post, “Cain’s 9-9-9 Touches Third Rail of New Hampshire Tax Policy,” generated a number of comments from StateImpact readers, but this one, part of a larger comment from Anonymous, stood out:
“…As for the whole notion Granite Staters — unlike any other around the nation — don’t like paying taxes, have you met a lot of people who don’t live in NH who LIKE paying taxes? Come on, we are not some exotic breed. We need to stop swallowing our own marketing about “tax-free NH.” Paid your property taxes lately?”
Anonymous’ comment leads to an interesting question — how anti-tax is New Hampshire, anyway? Continue Reading →
These are the five StateImpact posts that drew the most traffic, so we think you probably liked them the best.
As we promised last Friday, we’ve been keeping track of which posts got the most clicks this week. So without further ado…here’s our inaugural Essential StateImpact post for the week: Continue Reading →
Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan has made him an unforeseen contender for the presidency. But how does the plan play in New Hampshire, a state known for its libertarian values and unorthodox tax structure?
The attractiveness and simplicity, of Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan — a nine percent federal income, corporate and sales tax — has catapulted the Georgia businessman to the head of the Republican presidential field. But for some states, 9-9-9 wouldn’t be simple at all. A handful of states—including the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire—don’t have a sales tax. So what would a federal sales tax do to the New Hampshire economy? Continue Reading →
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