Former S.C. Revenue Director Burnie Maybank is looking to raise taxes on South Carolina time shares - forcing owners of these properties to pay the state sales taxes on maintenance fees. Also, Maybank is supporting the creation of a new tax on the sale or exchange of time share interests - which are
Read story »By FITSNews || It really is a lot like the old Soviet Union in South Carolina sometimes ... As Palmetto State residents suffer through record unemployment, low income levels and the longest (and deepest) economic recession in eight decades, the state's "Republican" leaders are once again turning their
Read story »South Carolina's legislative leaders are considering hundreds of millions of dollars in tax and fee increases as part of their efforts to preserve an unusually large, inefficient and dysfunctional state government through 2010 and beyond. At a whopping 41 percent of gross state product, South Carolina
Read story »Melvin F. Sembler is "kind of a big deal." The Republican fundraiser and Atlanta-based real estate developer was U.S. ambassador to Italy under President George W. Bush and ambassador to Australia under his father, President George H.W. Bush. He's "connected," in other words, and in case those connections
Read story »In addition to providing thousands of South Carolina parents with the opportunity to find a better academic environment for their children, the proposed Education Opportunity Act would also result in additional per pupil resources for public schools and savings to South Carolina taxpayers. According
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