Charges for maintaining investment accounts may include annual fees to allow the institution to cover expenses even if very few commission-generating activities, such as stock trades or fund transfers, take place on that account.
Caltrans Launches Pilot Program to Study State Mileage Tax for Road Maintenance. A Caltrans pilot program is underway to study a mileage tax for California drivers instead of the current gas tax to pay for road maintenance. The gas tax drivers pay at the pump has been working well for decades.
Residents have reached out to the Village upon reading of the recent major changes to the STAR program in the new State budget passed two weeks ago. As a recap: The STAR or New York State School Tax Relief Program is a mechanism to reduce school district property taxes on primary residences of New York State residents. Enacted in August of 1997, under the governorship of George Pataki, it is a very small version of Homestead Provisions in place in other states.