{"id":12117,"date":"2012-10-10T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=12117"},"modified":"2012-10-10T13:44:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T17:44:06","slug":"business-tax-cuts-could-cost-state-says-landrigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/10\/10\/business-tax-cuts-could-cost-state-says-landrigan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Business, Tax Cuts Could Cost State,&#8221; Says Landrigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Landrigan of the Nashua Telegraph reported in the Concord Monitor today that &#8220;sagging receipts from taxes on business owners and on the sale of cigarettes caused state revenue to fall 3 percent short of expectations last month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the state&#8217;s business taxes came in &#8220;6 percent less than forecast,&#8221; the July 2011 cut in cigarette taxes &#8220;continues to depress revenues,&#8221; despite proponents&#8217; belief that cutting the cigarette tax would increase sales and tax revenues. &#8220;Through the first three months of the fiscal year, the sales of cigarette packs were off 8.7 percent compared to the same period in 2011,&#8221; Landrigan writes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/article\/359883\/business-cigarette-tax-cuts-cost-state\" target=\"_blank\">Concord Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Landrigan of the Nashua Telegraph reported in the Concord Monitor today that &#8220;sagging receipts from taxes on business owners and on the sale of cigarettes caused state revenue to fall 3 percent short of expectations last month.&#8221; While the state&#8217;s business taxes came in &#8220;6 percent less than forecast,&#8221; the July 2011 cut in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,53],"tags":[406,405,404,403,407],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12139,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions\/12139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}