March 13, 2026

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Tax

Missouri Sues IRS to Acquire Delayed Covid Tax Credit Documents

The IRS failed to comply with the state attorney general’s request for records about a pandemic tax relief program for businesses, the state of Missouri said in a Friday lawsuit. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey requested in May that the IRS produce communications about its September 2023 decision to stop processing new Employee Retention Credit

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Wealth Management

State Taxation of Pass-Through Entities: General Principles (Portfolio 1500)

The Tax Management Portfolio, State Taxation of Pass–Through Entities: General Principles describes and compares the state tax provisions applicable to the most commonly used pass–through entities; the different types of participants in such entities; jurisdictional issues presented by nonresident and corporate participants; the application of state allocation and apportionment rules to pass–through entities and their

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Technology

Atwater’s Tadd Lake is pilot site to demonstrate nanobubble technology – West Central Tribune

ATWATER — A small lake once popular with a small town’s youth for swimming and fishing is now the site of a pilot project with the goal of bringing back its popularity. Nanobubble technology is now at work oxygenating the waters of Tadd Lake in Atwater. Staff with the Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District

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Fund

$4M In NVTA Money To Help Fund Manassas Transportation Project

MANASSAS, VA — Manassas is receiving $4 million from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to help fund a road improvement project. On Thursday, NVTA adopted its Fiscal Year 2024-2029 Six Year Program, dedicating $696.6 million to 23 multimodal transportation projects across the region. NVTA also transferred $21.1 million previously dedicated to an NVTA-funded project in

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Property

Garland County residents change proposal to cut property tax that funds local library • Arkansas Advocate

Garland County residents are circulating a petition for a countywide ballot measure to reduce the property tax that funds the local library after initially proposing to eliminate the tax completely. The proposal would reduce the 1.6-mill tax, approved by county voters in 1998, to 1.0 mills. The current millage brings in roughly $3.6 million annually

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Energy

Why has Montana’s energy fallen behind? • Daily Montanan

State Sen. Barry Usher, R-Billings, made some great points in his recent editorial, as he pointed out that Montana isn’t ready for electric vehicles. Sen. Usher is correct that Montana’s electricity system has fallen behind, leaving us unprepared for modern technologies. Usher noted that Montana’s power grid is strained. I suppose one solution would be

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Fund

$55M In NVTA Money To Help Fund 3 Loudoun Transportation Projects

LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA — Loudoun County is receiving $55 million from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to help fund three road improvement projects. On Thursday, NVTA adopted its Fiscal Year 2024-2029 Six Year Program, dedicating $696.6 million to 23 multimodal transportation projects across the region. NVTA also transferred $21.1 million previously dedicated to an NVTA-funded

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Investments

New Jersey woman guilty of defrauding West Virginians in investment scheme

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — A New Jersey woman has pleaded guilty to wire fraud for conducting an investment scheme in which victims from West Virginia and elsewhere lost more than $300,000. Diana Mae Fernandez, 38, of Bergenfield, New Jersey, also known as “Diana Fernandez Koporan,” “Dana Fernandez,” and “Dajana Ko,” pleaded guilty on Friday according

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Energy

EPA Releases New Version of EJScreen

This week EPA released the newest version of its environmental justice (EJ) screening and mapping tool, EJScreen 2.3. EJScreen is a mapping tool that combines environmental and socioeconomic data and is used to screen for potentially overburdened communities that may be affected by federal government programs and activities. The major changes revealed in EJScreen 2.3

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Insurance

California Insurance Commissioner OKs Lower Workers’ Comp Benchmark Rate

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today issued a decreased pure premium rate for workers’ compensation insurance, lowering the annual benchmark rate from $1.41 to $1.38 per $100 of payroll— representing a 2.1% percent decrease from last year. The advisory rate is set to go into effect on Sept. 1. Factors in the commissioner’s decision include

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