I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
State sales tax is supposed to pay for public services, but according to a report released this week by the Washington, D.C.-based economic policy group Good Jobs First, a little-known state tax policy allows retailers to keep a cut of the sales tax they collect. Nationwide over a billion dollars in state tax revenue is lost to “retailer compensation” each year, the report says. Last year the state of Michigan paid retailers $16 million to collect sales tax. Wal-Mart made $240,000.
During a Tuesday conference call with reporters, report co-author Philip Mattera described retailer compensation as “legalized skimming” and recommended re-examination of the practice, which was developed in the ’30s — before computerized bookkeeping and super-sized retailers like Wal-Mart.
Michigan is among 26 states that compensate retailers for collecting sales tax, and of the 13 that place ceilings on the amount a retailer can receive, Michigan’s limit at $240,000 per year is far and away the highest, according to the report. Florida allows retailers to keep $360 per year; New York, $800.
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