By Adam Pagnucco. This series has looked at the exodus of taxpayer income from Montgomery County in recent years. But it turns out that we are not the only jurisdiction…
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Exodus from MoCo, Part Five
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Four, we looked at four jurisdictions – the District of Columbia, Arlington, Alexandria and Prince George’s – from whom Montgomery County has gained real adjusted…
Exodus from MoCo, Part Four
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Three, we explored Montgomery County’s loss of taxpayer income to the rest of Maryland, other states and foreign locations. Today, we will start naming the…
Exodus from MoCo, Part Three
By Adam Pagnucco. Part Two revealed that Montgomery County has long suffered net out-migration of tax returns and real adjusted gross income (AGI) with those trends intensifying in the last…
Exodus from MoCo, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. As we explained in Part One, the IRS tracks the inflow and outflow of returns, exemptions and adjusted gross income (AGI) for all states and counties. Comparable…
Exodus from MoCo, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. Five years ago, I wrote a series on taxpayer flight from MoCo. At that time, I found that the county was losing hundreds of millions of dollars…
Elrich: County Regulators are Overloaded
By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich has written a memo to the county council requesting that they hold off on voting for a pending bill. The reason? Elrich claims…
By Adam Pagnucco. The Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors (GCAAR) has released its monthly housing report for September and made an interesting finding: home listings shot up by 40%…
By Adam Pagnucco. The county council’s Office of Legislative Oversight (OLO) has submitted its economic impact statement on Council Member Will Jawando’s bill to repeal the county’s tip credit for…
By Adam Pagnucco. As I have previously written, Council Member Will Jawando has introduced a bill to eliminate the tip credit for Montgomery County’s minimum wage. The bill comes despite…