sales tax

Hoping it will help jump start negotiations on North Carolina’s budget, state senators are offering major concessions to the House. But they want…

Just how North Carolina’s sales tax revenue will be distributed remains an open question, and a major stumbling block for House and Senate negotiators…

North Carolina Senate leaders are gearing up for another budget battle with their counterparts in the state House and Governor Pat McCrory, even before…

Monday should be fun for fans of politics and numbers. North Carolina's Senate is due to release its budget. It will be the second piece of major economic…

What happened to Adam Smith? The 24-year-old man died last week after apparently being hit with a blunt object. With little information to go on,…

In an hour-long interview with WFAE’s Charlotte Talks Monday, Governor Pat McCrory lashed out at Republican lawmakers in Raleigh for what he sees as bad…

Governor Pat McCrory was Monday's guest on Charlotte Talks. The interview comes at a time when the Republican governor is at odds with state lawmakers,…

Governor Pat McCrory has now made it clear, he is against a Senate plan to redistribute sales taxes. And he’s looking for allies in that fight.It was…

North Carolina legislative leaders are pushing for a significant change in how sales taxes are distributed.Currently, 75 percent of all sales tax…

Mecklenburg County voters did not approve a quarter cent sales tax that would have gone mostly to raise CMS employee pay. Sixty-one percent of voters said…