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.

State legislators are thinking about lowering taxes on hard cider and pre-mixed canned cocktails, although beer makers large and small are fighting the idea.

State officials anticipate adding hundreds of millions of dollars to the state’s revenue forecast, but the good news for the budget will have to wait a few weeks because the tax filing deadline had been delayed to Monday, a month later than usual.

There’s at least one thing that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders apparently sides with former President Donald Trump on — keeping a limit on state and local tax deductions.

Last year saw the the highest increase in the statewide tax levy in a decade,