Taxes

The credit itself is continuing in 2022, but will only come back to families once they file taxes at the beginning of 2023; the same goes for the current tax season and the other half of last year's credit that wasn't paid out monthly.

Assemblywoman Gabriela Mosquera, D-Gloucester, said changes to the benefit can help parents transitioning back to work.

The second and final gubernatorial debate Tuesday night hit the typical wide span of topics – COVID, school aid, marijuana, diversity, affordable housing and more.

“We will not. I pledge to not raise taxes,” Murphy said. “At any time in the next four years. But I’m not making news tonight. I’ve been saying this for the past year. The answer is I pledge to not raise taxes.”

A list compiled by the state Election Law Enforcement Commission of the most-lobbied bills in the current legislative session includes a familiar topic atop the charts.

The state’s treasury department announced that the gas tax rate will drop by 8.3 cents per gall on October 1.

The gas tax is adjusted each year, depending on recent collections and a forecast for the year ahead. Last year's 9.3-cent hike is being mostly reversed.

State tax revenues increased by nearly 17% compared to a year earlier in the period that makes up the 2021 fiscal year, the Department of the Treasury said Friday.

It'll be 18-months in prison for Sylvain Dienhoue, 53, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania who helps his clients filing those illegal returns so they could get bigger refunds.

Lawmakers meet this afternoon to begin approval of New Jersey’s 2022 state budget, with the intention of getting it to Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk Thursday.