Subject: Taxes

• DEAF AND TAXES

  NOBODY WANTED TO HEAR HOW THE RUN-DOWN ART COLONY WAS VALUED AT $10.5 MILLION

  June 16, 1993

• WELCOME TO PRESCOTT, CALIFORNIAWEST COAST YUPPIES ARE MAKING EVERYBODY'S HOMETOWN TOO EXPENSIVE FOR ITS OWN RESIDENT

  February 9, 1994

• THE NUKE GETS TAX BREAKS WHILE THE COUNTY FLOUNDERS

  April 27, 1994

• DANGEROUS GAMES, YOUR MONEYA NEW TIMES INVESTIGATION

  April 27, 1994

• DEPLORE THE STADIUM TAX? DON'T BUY CARS.FOES OF THE BASEBALL TAX ARE ORGANIZING A BOYCOTT

  February 16, 1995

• WANNA BUY A $70 MILLION LAKE?SALES-TAX-BACKED BONDS WILL JUMP-START TEMPE'S STALLED RIO SALADO PROJECT

  April 27, 1995

• WELFARE FOR GOLFTHE GOVERNMENT IS SUBSIDIZING MORE AND MORE WATER-SLURPING, PESTICIDE-LACED GOLF COURSES--EVEN THOUGH THE VALLEY ALREADY HAS 130 OF THEM

  August 31, 1995

• Sumitomo Wrestling

  Government officials are crowing about the deal that brought Sumitomo's silicon-wafer factory to northeast Phoenix. But they haven't mentioned that the deal will cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

  December 7, 1995

• When Revolution Meets Reality

  Governor Symington says his massive tax cuts have brought prosperity to Arizona. Actually, they are bringing on a fiscal train wreck that could damage the state for decades.

  December 28, 1995

• The High Cost of Education Reform

  The Symington administration touts market-based reform as a cure for Arizona's educational ills. Behind that rhetoric, state policies are driving public schools toward financial collapse.

  December 28, 1995

• A Pain in the Assessment

  Some nonprofits get propertytax bills from Maricopa County

  February 22, 1996

• Flashes

  May 23, 1996

• DOR Jam

  Department of Revenue won't grant hearing to widow who filed document two days late

  November 7, 1996

• Fife's Myth

  Symington's tax cuts had little or nothing to do with Arizona's economic boom, which isn't as robust as it's made out to be

  October 9, 1997

• Letters

  October 23, 1997

• Sun City Disease

  Every 10 years, retirement communities sweat local school-funding increases and flare up in anti-tax fever. This year's infection is in the Dysart Unified School District.

  March 5, 1998

• Reform Fitting but Unlikely

  April 23, 1998

• Letters

  October 22, 1998

• A Proposition 200 Close-Up

  October 29, 1998

• Budget Bonanza or Bust?

  Discord between GOP lawmakers and the governor is just one reason the budget battle might get ugly.

  January 7, 1999

• Tax Breaks Thicker Than Thieves ... when industry sidles over for a handout

  January 7, 1999

• Letters

  January 14, 1999

• Shafted Again

  Mining industry strikes another rich vein in the Legislature

  April 22, 1999

• Lost Arcos

  Officials suppress documents that say how much developers would profit from a hockey arena and commercial complex that's seeking at least $350 million in public subsidies

  October 28, 1999

• Dave Pratt No Longer Behind the Mic -- But He is Behind on Property Tax

  Dave Pratt, former "Morning Mayor" of KUPD (97.9 FM), has "parted ways" with the country music station that employed him for five years. Judging from Pratt's property tax statement, it may have been a bad time to lose his job. The legendary local DJ missed a deadline last month to pay more than $11,000 in property tax, incurring about $300 in interest fees. His Paradise Valley home, assessed at nearly $5 million, costs Pratt a hefty $23,000 a year these days in property tax. If Pratt's lucky,

  December 19, 2008

• Congressman John Shadegg to Appear at April 15 "Tea Party" to Protest New Taxes

    Hundreds of people are expected to show up on the State Capitol lawn on April 15 to protest taxation, including Republican Congressman John Shadegg (at left), say organizers of the "Tax Day Tea Party." The shin-dig, which takes place from 5:30-7 p.m., is being led by American for Prosperity and right-wing personalities like State Senator Russell Pearce, former Congressman J.D. Hayworth and talk-show host Bruce Jacobs. While the line-up alone may be a turn off for many left-

  April 7, 2009

• CityNorth: We’re Giving Away $97 Million for This?

  December 4, 2008

• Designated Drinking

  March 6, 2008

• Glendale Tax Preparer to Serve 21 Months for Bad Filings; Served Vietamese Community

  Glendale tax preparer Huy Phuoc Nguyen will serve 21 months in a federal prison for filing fraudulent returns on behalf of his clients and trying to blame the crime on his ex-wife. Nguyen served members of the local Vietnamese community from 2001 to 2005 through his home business, Lucky Immigration and Income Tax Service. Some of his customers seemed to qualify for every tax credit in the books -- how lucky! The feds say fraudulent returns for nearly three dozen people netted the clients tens

  April 13, 2009

• Gila Bound

  In its way, hellish Gila Bend's in a real estate boom like the rest of the county. Could it be Phoenix's next big bedroom community?

  March 9, 2006

• History of Deceit

  Why should we approve this bond election when Phoenix City Hall has lied to us big-time in the past?

  March 2, 2006

• Plundering the Faithful

  Polygamists continue to pipe big money to their fugitive prophet as their towns face financial ruin

  December 29, 2005

• Sweetheart Deal

  Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox got the bargain of the century. Why?

  June 16, 2005

• Elephant Slayer

  Napolitano deftly played politics this legislative session to fend off all GOP foes

  May 26, 2005

• Jerry's World

  Jerry Colangelo and his pals have gobbled up the lion’s share of public development dollars. If downtown’s to be saved, City Hall’s got to share the wealth.

  October 16, 2003

• Tax Broke

  Why is the state budget in crisis? Ask your legislators.

  September 26, 2002

• Fiscal Fissure

  Deep cuts proposed to state budget set up bleak future for Arizonans

  November 29, 2001

• Speaker Phone

  Groscost threats delayed action on alt-fuel debacle

  November 2, 2000

• Fuel's Gold

  Consumers clamor for big state bucks under alternative-fuel incentive program

  September 28, 2000

• Stapley Manner

  County Supervisor Don Stapley made a killing on a shady development and sank the profits into a mansion. Then he told the tax assessor to value his estate at $863,000 -- while listing it for sale at $2.5 million.

  June 1, 2000

• BOB's a Bust

  Bank One Ballpark was touted as a powerful economic engine for downtown. Data show, however, that BOB has fueled sales mostly for BOB. The meager spillover doesn't bode well for the Arizona Cardinals' stadium aspirations.

  March 9, 2000

• Abated Breath

  October 28, 1999

• House of Cards

  The taxpayers would get soaked and the Arizona Cardinals would get fat at Rio Salado Crossing

  April 8, 1999

• OUTLETS of Hostility

  Egoconsumed developers, lobbyists, flacks, detectives and lawyers generate fear and loathing a la Barbarians at the Gate. The reason? Two proposed outlet malls the Valley doesn't really need.

  November 2, 1995

• Fife Pays His Taxes

  October 19, 1995

• PITCHING A SHUTOUTTHE PUBLIC WAS CUT OUT OF THE BASEBALL-STADIUM DEBATE BEFORE IT EVEN BEGAN

  January 20, 1994

• Governor Brewer Keeps Up Offensive on Budget Bill

  Governor Jan Brewer is keeping up the pressure on lawmakers today to send her a budget plan, calling a news conference this morning at 11 a.m. on the steps of the Arizona Supreme Court. Brewer told reporters yesterday she is asking the Supreme Court justices to force State Senate President Bob Burns to send her 10 bills that make up the state budget -- so she can veto them. Brewer has her own ideas about how to fix the state's money problems, and has promised it won't require a ne

  June 16, 2009

• Scottsdale Man Pleads Guilty to Bringing in Chinese Viagra-Type Drug and Fraud Charges

  What a scammer! Timothy Keay Isaac, 47, pleaded guilty today in federal court to a slew of charges related to his illicit company, which brought into the country a Chinese Viagra-like drug without prescriptions. But this is the part that bugs us: In 2006, Isaac applied for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration and received $35,000. Yet that very same year, the con-man took out a mortgage on a $2.9 million house. Our question: Where was the Social Security Administration -

  June 26, 2009

• Private School Tax Credit Task Force To Hold First Meeting

  Representative David Schapira​The ruse of bipartisanship shall be on display September 21st as the Legislature begins its first talks over private school tax-credit reform.The Bipartisan Task Force on the Private School Tuition Tax Credits, a committee comprised of three Republicans, and five Democrats, plan to give it their all in achieving a "bipartisan" solution to the problem.If history tells us anything, this is going to be just one more "bipartisan" bicker-fest that our lame Legislature

  September 15, 2009

• This Just In: The AZ Economy Really, Really Sucks

  ​We didn't exactly need a think tank to tell us how bad things have gotten here in Arizona, but what the heck -- if one wants to quantify our state's woe, who are we not immerse ourselves in the sad details?This week's bad news comes from this month's Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government's State Revenue Report. And while it helpfully explains that the economy is bad everywhere, it also provides proof that in Arizona, things are even worse than bad. Our personal income has fallen, our

  October 27, 2009