Attorney General Knudsen Joins 13-State Coalition Suing Biden Treasury Dept. to Protect State Tax Cuts
March 31, 2021 HELENA — Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a bipartisan 13-state coalition in filing suit Wednesday to protect the well-established authority of states to lower taxes for their citizens from being violated by the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021” (ARPA). U.S. Treasury officials cannot force states to relinquish control of their taxing authority in return for the federal dollars that Congress appropriated in ARPA. The Federal Tax Mandate, housed in §9901 of ARPA, is “one of the most egregious power grabs by the federal government in the nation’s history,...
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