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PHOENIX The state Department of Revenue wants a judge to quash efforts by business interests and some Republican legislators to keep a new tax to fund education from taking effect.
And it puts the agency, a division of the state, somewhat at odds with Gov. Doug Ducey who had urged voters, unsuccessfully, to defeat the measure.
Brian Bergin, an attorney hired by the state in the legal fight, is telling Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah there is no legal justification for him to bar enforcement of the new 3.5% income tax surcharge on the wealthy approved by voters in Proposition 208. If nothing else, Bergin said, there s no rush to deal with it because the earliest people would actually owe the tax is April of 2022.
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PHOENIX The fate of a voter-approve tax on the rich to fund education could depend on whether a judge believes the money raised will be “grants’’ to school districts.
Attorney Andy Gaona representing Invest in Ed told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah on Wednesday that’s how he should read the language in Proposition 208. He said the initiative spells out in detail how the money raised will go out in “grants to school districts and charter schools.’’
But Dominic Draye, representing Republican lawmakers and business interests trying to quash the levy, urged the judge to reject that interpretation.
Judge hears arguments on voter approved tax on rich
The fate of a voter-approve tax on the rich to fund education could depend on whether a judge believes the money raised will be “grants” to school districts.
Attorney Andy Gaona representing Invest in Ed told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah on Wednesday that’s how he should read the language in Proposition 208. He said the initiative spells out in detail how the money raised will go out in “grants to school districts and charter schools.”
But Dominic Draye, representing Republican lawmakers and business interests trying to quash the levy, urged the judge to reject that interpretation.
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