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Arizona Tax Group Pushing For 'Right Sized' Business Property Tax In 2020

Many advocacy groups will be competing for Arizona lawmakers’ time and a slice of the state budget this year.

Arizona Tax Research Association is included in that list. The Show sat down with the Sean McCarthy, senior research analyst there.

Interview Highlights
What ideally would you most like to see come out of this legislative session?

Auditor General finds deficiencies in ABOR real estate dealings

https://www.azmirror.com/2019/10/16/auditor-general-finds-deficiencies-…

University of Arizona failed to properly oversee a commercial real estate project and allowed millions of dollars to be improperly spent, and there is a general lack of transparency and oversight at university real estate projects overseen across the state by the Arizona Board of Regents, state auditors concluded.

Arizona’s messy tax system hampers small businesses battling online retailers for tax fairness

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2019/04/16/sales-tax-fairness/

Tuesday, April 16, 2019
PHOENIX – Arizona small business owners are fighting for sales tax equality with online retailers, similar to 39 other states trying to collect taxes on goods that consumers buy online. But experts said Arizona’s tax system complicates the situation.

2019: Netflix, GoDaddy sue ADOR over digital goods tax

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/04/10/arizona-s…

Netflix, ADP and GoDaddy are battling the Arizona Department of Revenue over their alleged improper taxation of digital goods.

The lawsuits come as the Arizona State Senate attempts to pass Senate Bill 1460, which would give tax-paying businesses clarity on which kinds of digital goods are taxed and which are not.

Government should forgo gold shovels, oversized scissors

There’s nothing quite like the bipartisan schadenfreude experienced when the hubris of politicians leads to a failed business incentive deal. The Wisconsin-based Foxconn project and Amazon HQ2 in New York are dead for very different reasons. Foxconn, which once promised 13,000 jobs at a mega-plant in exchange for $4 billion in subsidies, has Trump and Scott Walker detractors snickering alongside anti-subsidy conservatives. They’re not laughing in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.
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