Monday, November 26, 2012

The Week Ahead (Cyber Monday Edition)

Welcome back from the Thanksgiving break! Last week - in addition to consuming copious amounts of turkey, stuffing, cranberries, and pie - we blogged about #GivingTuesday (which is tomorrow) and the latest good news about employment in Maryland.

Neil Bergsman also appeared in a Washington Examiner story about upcoming MD budgets. We've asked the Examiner to clarify that MBTPI is not in favor of increasing the corporate tax rate. We do support a combination of reducing Maryland’s corporation tax rate while broadening the base - by reforming the tax code to make it harder for multi-state corporations to use accounting maneuvers to escape Maryland’s tax. This could modestly increase state revenues and reduce taxes for local businesses while making sure that large multi-state corporations pay their fair share. Neil also appeared in a story on holiday giving for the Gazette.

Today is also Cyber Monday, the traditional day when office workers spend their work hours shopping for online deals. Finding a deal online is fun, but remember that Maryland will lose $200 million dollars in owed but unpaid sales tax to internet retailers this year. Not only is that lost revenue for the state, but it represents more than $3 billion in lost revenue for local businesses and fewer Maryland jobs.

Monday, November 26th
Tuesday, November 27th
Wednesday, November 28th
Thursday, November 29th
  • Maryland Medicaid Advisory Committee meets. 1-3pm in the lobby level conference room, L-3, 201 West Preston Street, Baltimore.
  • Maryland Nonprofits offers Streamlining Your Marketing Through Content Strategy. This is a Maryland Nonprofits training program, for more information or to register go to their events page

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