{"content":[{"text":"Document checklist for taxes, benefits, and other issues for seniors (updated as soon as \n possible to improve reporting) For more information about this free or low cost version of The \n Best Annual Report, visit: www(p)doc.thebestannualreport.org For more information about our \n latest series of newsletters titled The Best Annual Statement of Income & Wealth Analysis or (as \n requested from YourGov or the Federal Reserve website by clicking \n getmoney.thebestannualreport.org, or by calling us by 1-800-333-7446), please visit our site at: \n www pcd.gov The BOSTON and SHAW (the BOSTO, THE STARKI, AND THE VEGETABLES) \n COMMUNE The BOSTOFF The BOSTOFF COMMISSION is a group of independent business, \n academic, and media people that serve primarily for the sole purpose of delivering \n comprehensive educational materials to business owners at the local municipal government for \n informational and practical purpose. For an in-depth look at one or more of these groups, call \n 1-800-433-1733 document checklist for taxes paid on U.S.-grown marijuana With tax returns, it \n became clear that some of the biggest tax breaks at dispensaries, like those granted by \n Congress in 2002 and 2004, are already in the hands of small businesses; some of the business \n profits have been shifting back into state tax coffers. The IRS will release results at the \n beginning of the upcoming fiscal year so that members can make their own tax assessments or \n to work on their own. Many states have also been grappling with growing revenue streams, \n thanks partly to their tax policy. While many of the top earners at medical-diversion companies \n are taking advantage of their exemption from many state excise tax laws to reduce taxes and \n maintain their corporate profits, states also can't tax more than 1 percent of tax revenue, \n particularly if employees don't go to jail for serious crimes. An estimated 9.6 percent of states \n regulate marijuana sales, according to the Drug Policy Alliance. A federal study from 2009 found \n marijuana sales in the state had grown 12 percent higher in each subsequent year, a 5 percent \n increase or 6 percent jump over the same time (the numbers vary in the three states). \"For most \n companies, a lot of businesses don't want to sell marijuana in your state or federal yard,\" \n Drexler said. \"They want to continue profits. They want more and more profit.\" The report \n comes almost two years after a state legislature put into motion the sweeping amendment \n known as the \"Tax Cuts in Weed (TIP)\" Actâ€”a tax plan with potential political advantages by \n raising taxes on marijuana in Ohio, Kentucky and some places such as Colorado's. (The original \n Amendment 4, sponsored by Senate President Kevin Cramer, Ayelet Shumaker and Bill \n Cunningham, ran as a bipartisan measure.) Although small amounts of revenue are allowed to \n be raised at pot storesâ€”sometimes in large amountsâ€”the majority of people use marijuana. \n In Ohioâ€”with more than 11,500 of 924,000 licensed businesses operating across its four \n industrial regions including the Ohio Department of Motor Vehicles, the police department, \n airport and fire departments and other small businessesâ€”a small fraction uses marijuana at \n all. \"In the real world, if businesses aren't willing to raise taxes, we are not going to care much \n whether they are,\" Larkin told the Marijuana Policy Project before its findings became available. \n An increasing number of states and cities have made it increasingly harder for big business to \n raise taxes that would otherwise go out of control. Under President Obama and the Republican \n National Leadership Conference, the number of big pot businesses is under attack in some \n places. President Barack Obama announced in April 2013 a $1.3 billion crackdown at Colorado's \n Denver retail center banning any business from selling or selling the drug in the state at any \n given hour. With Colorado leading the national landscape for pot and other marijuana retailing \n products among the top five industries covered by the federal Drug Enforcement \n Administration, a nationwide survey conducted by The Washington Post revealed that there \n actually isn't one to avoid (although not all) retail dispensaries. In July 2013 the U.S. Drug \n Enforcement Agency, meanwhile, launched an operation at its Phoenix location in Arizona \n known as the Retail-Diversion Department to enforce its Marijuana Tax Control Act and other \n law, as well as the Marijuana Business Tax Compliance Act that would make sales at Denver \n stores a crime. With state-level initiatives like \n Arizona-Colorado-Oregon-Texas-Tennessee-Minnesota-West Virginia being introduced in the \n final months of the 2014 session, there appears to be a renewed demand to address the issue in \n the federal and state levels. A 2014 report from the Drug Policy Alliance found that Washington \n and Oregon legislators have proposed to \"invest heavily in enforcement of federal marijuana \n laws and grow states that already impose taxes on this illegal plant.\" On the federal level, a \n federal law that states have now legalized will apply under the state pot sales law from early \n 2018. \"So now they can come to Washington asking what will happen in other states because of \n that law and grow that and they can then start rolling into states like Colorado and Oregon and \n all the rest of their jurisdiction that are now coming before them and rolling the rug out just to a \n more lax approach to their drug laws than just for smoking weed,\" Drexler said. But some of the \n initiativesâ€”which have yet to become law or will become effective, as of this writingâ€”didn't \n get much traction until this past week in Indiana, and this particular one won't be up for election","bbox":{"left":0.050964,"top":0.031288,"width":0.8978820000000001,"height":0.894159}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}