By Adam Pagnucco. The county council has passed the Kicking the Can Budget, a budget that will go down in infamy because of its homeowner tax increase and the nearly…
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Is This Progressive?
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, the county council passed an income tax plan that it calls progressive. County Executive Marc Elrich calls it regressive. Who is right? To answer that…
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By Adam Pagnucco. On Friday, I reported that the county council adopted progressive income tax brackets and abolished the Income Tax Offset Credit (ITOC), a $692 tax credit received by…
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Council Votes to Raise Taxes on Homeowners
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By Adam Pagnucco. The county council has cast a straw vote by 6-5 to raise taxes on homeowners who receive the Income Tax Offset Credit (ITOC), a flat $692 credit…
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A Disaster in the Making
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By Adam Pagnucco. The income tax restructuring now before the council threatens to disproportionately hit low income homeowners. But that’s not all. It will also inflate property tax bills and…
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By Adam Pagnucco. A big majority of county council members have spoken out against the tax increases recommended by County Executive Marc Elrich. Almost all of them voted against his…
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Should We Restructure the Income Tax?
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By Adam Pagnucco. In her landmark memo proposing to rewrite County Executive Marc Elrich’s recommended FY27 operating budget, which includes increased property and income taxes, Council President Natali Fani-González proposed…
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165 Does Not Equal 8
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By Adam Pagnucco. As of this writing, there are two plans on the table for the county’s FY27 operating budget. There is County Executive Marc Elrich’s recommended budget, which relies…
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Fani-González’s Bold Budget Proposal
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By Adam Pagnucco. With many county council members and an overwhelming majority of Democratic primary voters expressing opposition to broad-based tax increases, Council President Natali Fani-González has proposed a bold…
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The Biggest Broken Promise in MoCo Politics
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By Adam Pagnucco. Back in 2018, then-Council Member Marc Elrich campaigned for county executive on an important promise: he was going to work with his endorsers in the county government…
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