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The Best States for Minority Entrepreneurs

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Vermont, with high business loan approval rates, high minority-owned startup growth, low unemployment, and lower income disparities, takes the spotlight as the number one state for minority entrepreneurship. Click for larger images. The 20 best states for minority entrepreneurs. States with the highest percentage of minority-owned businesses.

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A history of sales tax

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The American version Financing government has usually motivated creation of taxes in America. All other states (except the five that still don’t have a sales tax) followed in the 1960s, capped by Vermont in 1969. England also taxed salt, as did France – one cause of the latter’s bloody revolution in the late 1700s.

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The latest on the NOMAD states

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Vermont was the last to due so in 1969. Of Alaska’s 162 municipal governments, approximately 110 already levy some form of sales tax (including some seasonal ones) of 1% to 7%. A state has not added a statewide sales tax since Richard Nixon was in the White House.

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Alaska moves toward statewide sales tax

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Vermont was the last state to adopt a sales tax, in 1969. Of Alaska’s 162 municipal governments, approximately 110 already levy some form of sales tax (including some seasonal ones) of 1% to 7%, according to numbers cited from the state Department of Commerce. Alaska is furthest along of the five in instituting a statewide sale tax.

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Excise Tax versus Sales Tax

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Federal, state, and local governments can all impose excise taxes. Excise taxes vary widely from state to state, but in recent years states collecting the highest per-capita excise taxes include Vermont, Nevada, Hawaii, Minnesota, and Maryland. Latest estimates are that at the federal level the U.S.

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Intuit Launches QuickBooks Small Business Index

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The Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index uses purpose-built economic models to normalize anonymized QuickBooks customer data against official government statistics to reflect the general population of small businesses in each country; it is not a reflection of Intuit’s business.

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A List of the 10 Worst Property Taxes By States

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The money that you pay for these taxes funds the services that your local government provides. Outside of Olivia Pope and Fitz moving to Vermont in Scandal, we don’t know too many people who live in Vermont. Not necessarily, property taxes fund everything around you – education, emergency services, and infrastructure.