Category: Property Tax and Education News

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Blog:  House passes 3-day sales tax holiday The House unanimously has passed a shortened back-to-school sales tax holiday on most clothing and school supplies. For clothes priced …

Hyperlinks to research, reports and additional information compiled by Florida Tax Watch during the first quarter of 2010 are listed below: How Independent Are Florida Inspectors General?, April 2010 Modernizing Process of Estimating Fiscal Impact of Legislation Benefits Florida, March …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   House approves budget on party-line vote On a party-line, election-year vote, House Republicans on Thursday pushed through their blueprint for spending $67.2 billion next year, most of …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Education shocker: Florida not a winner in federal Race to the Top education grant In a huge surprise, Florida is not a first-round winner of a massive …

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today, March 29, 2010, that Delaware and Tennessee have won the first phase of Race to the Top, for which Florida was considered to be a leading contender.    Including Florida, 40 states and the District of Columbia applied for …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Blog:  Tax credit crowd converges on Tallahassee; and “why aren’t you in school?” An estimated 5,500 supporters of the state’s Tax Credit Scholarship program, including many students who …

    Above:  FloridaToday.com editorial cartoon; March 23, 2010   To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   In Tallahassee today, focus is education The 40-member Senate will take up the heart of the education policy agenda, including …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Sarasota County school tax prevails by a decisive margin Even with high unemployment, a foreclosure crisis and a lingering recession, Sarasota voters Tuesday renewed a special tax …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Florida Legislature seeks property tax cuts, incentives Tax-cut plans could benefit green builders, rural homeowners and others but could cost local governments. Florida lawmakers have proposed tax …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Blog:  Economist: Florida auction of casinos licenses could bring up to $2 billion Legislative economist Amy Baker told the House Committee on Seminole Indian Compact Review that if …