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What Lessons Can We Learn from Amazon’s HQ2 Drama?

Now that Amazon has finally chosen Long Island City, NY and Arlington, Virginia as co-winners in its second headquarters sweepstakes, it’s a good time to...

November 16, 2018Donnie Charleston Megan Randall

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Tax Protests and Business Boycotts: History Repeats, Maybe.

Independence Day has me thinking about tax protests. One, in Boston, shaped our nation’s history. Another is still taking shape in Seattle. Both reflect our complicated relationship with taxes and those who levy them. But that’s where similarities end. If you were a taxpayer participating in either, what might you do?

June 6, 2018Renu Zaretsky

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Seattle's Head Tax is a Fine Idea, Given the Circumstances

Seattle is currently having a contentious debate over a proposed "head tax" to fund more affordable housing and services for its large and growing homeless...

May 11, 2018Steven M. Rosenthal Richard C. Auxier