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The back-and-forth over whether Maine should tax certain PPP loans continues.
The latest salvo came from the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, which urged the state Legislature to forego a tax on Paycheck Protection Program loans for businesses of all sizes.
Gov. Janet Mills, responding Tuesday to earlier criticism over a proposal to tax all PPP loan recipients, offered a compromise to tax only businesses that received more than $1 million in the pandemic relief loans which would affect 251 businesses and generate $18 million in much-needed state revenue.
PPP loans are not taxed on a federal level, and many states are wrestling with whether to tax the loans.
Island Police: Slippery roads, deer blamed for multiple crashes
Southwest Harbor
After a burglar alarm at a Herrick Road property went off around 1 p.m. on Feb. 2, police checked the home, deemed it a false alarm and notified the property owner.
A slippery road led to a car off the road on Long Hill around 1:45 p.m. on Feb. 2, according to a police report. The car was pulled out by a wrecker and was not damaged.
Police received a report of a person shoveling snow from their driveway onto Main Street around 3:15 p.m. on Feb. 2. When an officer arrived and informed the shoveler that their actions were illegal, they stopped.
Editorial: In a pandemic, trust is key February 11, 2021 on Editorials, Opinion
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, issues of equity that highlight the disparity among different groups of Americans, especially across the socio-economic strata, have come under the spotlight again and again.
Athletes and politicians received access to testing before it was widely available to the public. Experimental treatments believed to reduce hospitalization have been, in large part, reserved for the wealthy and powerful and have not been made available to the average patient. And now it plays out again as life-saving vaccines are beginning to be distributed.
This week, news media around the state exposed some flagrant decisions from top healthcare administrators that allowed donors and retired, former employees access to the vaccine under the guise of testing a registration system. That same company this week also s
The new plan would exempt the first $1 million in loan proceeds from state taxes, a break that would apply to 99% of the Maine businesses that received PPP funds last year. But over 200 recipients, including some large employers, would still be taxed.