| Taxation | ||
| TAX - INCOME TAX - | ||
| LR 705 | NASS | An Act to Allow People to Receive Early Tax Refunds in Certain Limited Cases |
| LR 1068 | SNOWE-MELLO | An Act to Abolish the Income Tax |
| LR 1225 | KOFFMAN | An Act to Establish a Penalty on Gains from the Sale or Exchange of Land from Which Timber has been Harvested |
| TAX - INCOME TAX - CREDITS | ||
| LR 219 | BLISS | An Act to Create the Family Technology Assistance Tax Credit |
| LR 398 | SIMPSON | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing the Quality Child Care Tax Credit |
| LR 402 | STANLEY | An Act to Create an Income Tax Credit for Premiums Paid for Health Insurance |
| LR 572 | STRIMLING | An Act to Provide Student Loan Forgiveness to Maine Employees |
| LR 897 | SHERMAN | An Act to Provide a Tax Credit for Tuition Paid to Private Schools |
| LR 1166 | MAYO | An Act Relating to Tax Credits for Historic Preservation Societies |
| LR 1197 | RICHARDSON J | An Act to Enhance the Maine Earned Income Tax Credit |
| LR 1333 | MCLAUGHLIN | An Act to Provide a Tax Credit to Employers Who Contribute to Employee Health Care Benefits |
| LR 1465 | WOODBURY | An Act To Promote and Facilitate Personal Retirement Saving in Maine |
| LR 1525 | COLWELL | An Act To Expand the Education Tax Credit |
| LR 1586 | NASS | An Act to Establish a Tax Credit for Parents who Homeschool Their Children |
| TAX - INCOME TAX - DEDUCTIONS | ||
| LR 417 | DAVIS G | An Act to Increase the Income Tax Deduction on Private, Public and Military Pensions from $6,000 to $10,000 |
| LR 251 | CLOUGH | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing the Deduction of Pension Retirement Benefits from State Income Tax |
| LR 416 | DAVIS G | An Act to Amend the Law Pertaining to Tax Exemptions for Public and Private Pensions |
| LR 417 | DAVIS G | An Act to Increase the Income Tax Deduction on Private, Public and Military Pensions from $6,000 to $10,000 |
| LR 433 | CLOUGH | An Act to Provide an Income Tax Deduction for a Qualified State-sponsored 529 Plan for Higher Education Expenses |
| LR 447 | EDMONDS | An Act to Provide Federal Civil Service Retirees the Same State Income Tax Deduction as Federal Military Service Retirees |
| LR 638 | MCLAUGHLIN | An Act to Exempt Military Pensions from State Income Tax |
| LR 1018 | GAGNON | An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Deduction of Pension and Retirement Benefits from State Income Tax |
| LR 1107 | PINGREE | An Act to Provide an Income Tax Deduction for Student Loan Interest |
| LR 1248 | PARADIS | An Act to Increase the Maine Income Tax Deduction Benefit for Retired Teachers to $10,000 |
| TAX - INCOME TAX - EXEMPTIONS | ||
| LR 319 | STRIMLING | An Act to Provide for Fairer Income Tax Rates |
| LR 646 | LERMAN | An Act to Eliminate Discrimination Against Service Center Communities by Amending the Law Regarding Tax-exempt Property |
| LR 1401 | CRESSEY | An Act to Protect the Wages of Low-income Wage Earners |
| LR 1472 | CRESSEY | An Act to Increase the Personal Income Tax Exemption |
| TAX - INCOME TAX - RATE | ||
| LR 975 | GLYNN | An Act to Immediately Eliminate the Marriage Penalty Tax |
| LR 1516 | CRESSEY | An Act to Establish a Flat Tax Rate for Maine Income Tax |
| TAX - MISCELLANEOUS TAXES - | ||
| LR 840 | MILLS P | An Act to Enhance Renewable Power |
| LR 841 | MILLS P | An Act to Shift Tax Burdens from Wages to Nonrenewable Power Sources |
| LR 845 | MILLS P | An Act To Promote Maine Farm and Dairy Products in Place of Soft Drinks in Public Schools and To Create a Maine Residency Program for New Dentists |
| LR 1379 | KETTERER | An Act To Ensure Domestic Tranquility |
| TAX - MISCELLANEOUS TAXES - ALCOHOL TAXES | ||
| LR 410 | SUSLOVIC | An Act to Fund the Fund for a Healthy Maine From an Increase in Liquor Taxes |
| TAX - MISCELLANEOUS TAXES - EXCISE TAX | ||
| LR 340 | TWOMEY | An Act To Exempt from Sales Tax Sales of Adaptive Equipment To Make a Vehicle Handicapped Accessible |
| LR 443 | EDER | An Act to Establish the Clean Car Freebate Program |
| LR 613 | SHIELDS | An Act to Provide Certain Veterans an Excise Tax Deduction In Lieu of the Homestead Exemption |
| LR 941 | KNEELAND | An Act to Create a Minimal Excise Tax for Farm Trucks |
| LR 976 | GLYNN | An Act To Require That the Excise Tax on Vehicles Be Based on the Purchase Price |
| LR 1173 | KNEELAND | An Act To Encourage the Development and Use of Domestically Produced Renewable Motor Vehicle Fuels |
| LR 1217 | PELLON | An Act to Change the Fee Methods for Taxation of Trucks and Motor Homes |
| LR 1496 | CRESSEY | An Act to Bring Equity to the Vehicle Excise Tax |
| TAX - MISCELLANEOUS TAXES - LODGING & MEALS TAX | ||
| LR 315 | SAMPSON | An Act to Increase the Maine Lodging Tax |
| LR 1084 | SNOWE-MELLO | An Act to Lower the Tax on Food in Restaurants from 7% to 5.5% |
| TAX - MISCELLANEOUS TAXES - MOTOR FUEL TAX | ||
| LR 350 | GAGNE-FRIEL | An Act to Repeal the Annual Indexing of Motor Fuel Taxes |
| LR 142 | MCKENNEY | An Act to Make Changes in the Laws Governing the Tax on Motor Fuel |
| LR 187 | LEMOINE | An Act to Rename the Gasoline Tax the "Road Services Fee" |
| LR 350 | GAGNE-FRIEL | An Act to Repeal the Annual Indexing of Motor Fuel Taxes |
| LR 497 | EDER | An Act To Exempt Biodiesel Fuel from the Special Fuel Tax |
| LR 1270 | ROTUNDO | An Act to Equalize Fuel Taxes on Vehicles used for Personal Travel |
| TAX - MISCELLANEOUS TAXES - QUAHOG TAX | ||
| LR 1616 | DAMON | An Act To Reduce the Tax Paid on Mahogany Quahogs |
| TAX - MISCELLANEOUS TAXES - REAL ESTATE TRANSFER TAX | ||
| LR 458 | DUPLESSIE | An Act Concerning Counties' Share of the Real Estate Transfer Tax |
| LR 1108 | PINGREE | An Act to Increase the Real Estate Transfer Tax on Transfers for More Than 10% of the Assessed Value of Real Estate |
| LR 1121 | PINGREE | An Act To Remove the Exemption for Limited Liability Companies from the Real Estate Transfer Tax |
| TAX - MISCELLANEOUS TAXES - TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX | ||
| LR 411 | SUSLOVIC | An Act to Increase the Tax on All Tobacco Products |
| TAX - OMNIBUS - | ||
| LR 171 | DUNLAP | An Act to Reform the Tax Laws |
| LR 188 | LEMOINE | An Act to Restructure the Maine Income Tax Law |
| LR 229 | LEMOINE | An Act to Restructure the Tax System and Make the Restructured System Subject to Referendum |
| LR 392 | MCGOWAN | An Act to Reform the Laws Governing Taxation |
| LR 562 | TURNER | An Act to Limit the Growth of Government Spending and Reform the Tax Code |
| LR 563 | GOODWIN | An Act to Fully Fund Local Education with State's Tax Revenues |
| LR 581 | COLWELL | An Act to Promote a Strong Maine Economy |
| LR 824 | MILLS P | An Act for Comprehensive Reform of Maine's Tax Structure |
| LR 1697 | DUDLEY | An Act to Modernize the State's Tax System |
| LR 1739 | RICHARDSON J | An Act to Create Equity in the Maine Tax Code |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - APPEALS | ||
| LR 509 | FLETCHER | An Act to Minimize the Litigation Costs to Local Municipalities Associated with Property Tax Assessment Appeals |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - CURRENT USE TAXES | ||
| LR 60 | BRENNAN | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Protect the Commercial Fishing Industry |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - ELDERLY | ||
| LR 84 | USHER | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Allow Municipalities to Limit Property Taxes for Elderly Residents |
| LR 159 | LEMOINE | An Act to Allow Property Tax Reductions for Seniors |
| LR 292 | BLAIS | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Provide Property Tax Relief for Maine Seniors |
| LR 1023 | GAGNON | An Act to Create a Local Property Tax Rebate Program for the Elderly |
| LR 1605 | DUDLEY | An Act to Create a Property Tax Deferment Program for the State's Older Residents |
| LR 1621 | MILLETT | An Act to Limit Annual Increases in the Property Taxes of Elderly Homeowners |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - EXEMPT OWNERS | ||
| LR 78 | PINEAU | An Act to Increase the Property Tax Exemption for Veterans |
| LR 78 | PINEAU | An Act to Increase the Property Tax Exemption for Veterans |
| LR 800 | LEDWIN | An Act to Provide a Property Tax Exemption to All Veterans of the United States Armed Services |
| LR 961 | BLANCHETTE | An Act to Authorize Towns and Cities to Give Property Tax Relief to Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Medical Service Providers |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - EXEMPT PROPERTY | ||
| LR 532 | HUTTON | An Act to Increase the Value of a Parsonage that is Exempt from the Property Tax |
| LR 676 | COLLINS | An Act to Provide a School Funding Exemption |
| LR 693 | DUNLAP | An Act Regarding Wildlife Habitat Conservation |
| LR 1216 | PELLON | An Act to Impose Municipal Services Fees for Tax-Exempt Property Owners |
| LR 1227 | CARPENTER | An Act to Allow Municipalities to Negotiate Payments in Lieu of Property Taxes from Owners of Tax-exempt Property |
| LR 1422 | DUDLEY | An Act to Allow Municipalities to Place a Municipal Service Charge on Tax-exempt Institutions |
| LR 1574 | MCNEIL | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Private Property on Which a Body is Buried |
| LR 1722 | TARDY | An Act to Exempt from Tax State-mandated Fish Passage Facilities |
| LR 1730 | CRESSEY | An Act to Establish Minimum Standards for the Property Tax Exemption for Charitable Institutions |
| LR 1751 | MOORE F | An Act Regarding Taxation within Passamaquoddy Territory |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION | ||
| LR 80 | DAVIS G | An Act to Increase the Homestead Property Tax Exemption From $7,000 to $20,000 |
| LR 80 | DAVIS G | An Act to Increase the Homestead Property Tax Exemption From $7,000 to $20,000 |
| LR 166 | DUNLAP | An Act to Establish a One-time Uniform Application Process for the Homestead Property Tax Exemption |
| LR 1582 | MILLETT | An Act to Increase the Homestead Exemption to $25,000 |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - MAINE RESIDENTS PROPERTY TAX PROG | ||
| LR 61 | BRENNAN | An Act To Expand Eligibility for the Circuit Breaker Program |
| LR 100 | MILLS P | An Act to Expand the Maine Residents Property Tax Program |
| LR 207 | EDER | An Act to Expand the Maine Residents Property Tax Program, the so-called "Circuit Breaker Program" |
| LR 697 | EDER | An Act to Facilitate the Application Process for the Property Tax and Rent Rebate Program |
| LR 1019 | GAGNON | An Act to Adjust Qualifications for the So-called "Circuit Breaker Program" |
| LR 1196 | RICHARDSON J | An Act to Enhance the Maine Resident Homeowners and Renters Property Tax Relief Program |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX | ||
| LR 130 | LEMOINE | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine Related to the Taxation of Personal Property |
| LR 146 | TRAHAN | An Act to Phase Out the Business Equipment Tax Refund |
| LR 210 | EDER | An Act to Eliminate the Business Equipment and Machinery Tax |
| LR 290 | BLAIS | An Act to Phase Out the Tax on Business Equipment |
| LR 352 | BENNETT R | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Eliminate Business Equipment Tax |
| LR 551 | GOODWIN | An Act to Repeal the Reimbursement of Personal Property Tax on Business Machines and Equipment |
| LR 746 | LEMOINE | An Act to Make the Business Equipment Tax Reimbursement Program a Local Option |
| LR 1320 | SMITH W | An Act To Increase the Value of Real and Personal Property Exempt from Attachment |
| LR 1659 | NORBERT | An Act to Clarify the Filing of Municipal Personal Property Tax Liens |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - PROVISIONS REVISED | ||
| LR 155 | LEMOINE | An Act to Provide a municipal Process for an Initiative to Impose a Property Tax Cap |
| LR 561 | TURNER | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Allow Real Estate to be Taxed Differently Based on the Residence of the Owner |
| LR 1769 | MCGOWAN | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Allow the Legislature to Establish a Different Property Tax Rate for Secondary Residential Property for Purposes of Education Funding and to Establish an Education Funding Stabilization Fund |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - REFUNDS | ||
| LR 825 | MILLS P | An Act To Create the Maine Agricultural Property Tax Program |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - RELIEF | ||
| LR 65 | BROMLEY | An Act To Provide Meaningful Property Tax Relief |
| LR 102 | CLARK | An Act to Connect the BETR Program with Job Retention |
| LR 154 | LEMONT | An Act Allowing Municipalities to Create Property Tax Circuit Breaker Programs |
| LR 205 | EDER | An Act to Require Living Wages for State Employees and in All State Contracts |
| LR 241 | ANDREWS | An Act to Provide Property Tax Relief to Maine Citizens Who Meet Certain Guidelines |
| LR 297 | PERCY | An Act to Establish the Maine Land Bank and Community Preservation Program |
| LR 303 | STRIMLING | An Act to Provide Property Tax Relief |
| LR 365 | LEMONT | An Act to Repeal the Homestead Property Tax Exemption and In Its Stead Expand the Circuit Breaker Program |
| LR 617 | SHIELDS | An Act to Provide That Employee Terminations By Any Company That Receives Monetary Benefits From the State Require Just Cause |
| LR 1467 | WOODBURY | An Act to Provide Property Tax Relief to Maine Resident Homeowners |
| LR 1468 | WOODBURY | An Act to Provide Voluntary Long-term Property Tax Deferral for Eligible Households |
| LR 1548 | STRIMLING | An Act to Improve the Business Equipment Tax Reimbursement Program |
| LR 1561 | MCNEIL | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Cap the Property Taxes of Homes that have Been in the Family for 4 Generations |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX - TREE GROWTH TAX | ||
| LR 667 | JACKSON | An Act to Assist American Mills with Tree Growth Management Plan Products |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX PROCEDURES - ABATEMENTS | ||
| LR 1719 | STANLEY | An Act to Suspend Property Tax Abatement Appeals When the Taxpayer Fails to Pay Taxes |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX PROCEDURES - COLLECTION | ||
| LR 967 | KNEELAND | An Act To Require Disclosure Statements Regarding Proration of Property Taxes When Real Estate is Sold |
| LR 1337 | MCLAUGHLIN | An Act to Enhance the Collection of Tax Arrearages |
| LR 1552 | MILLETT | An Act to Encourage the Payment of Delinquent Taxes |
| TAX - PROPERTY TAX PROCEDURES - FORECLOSURE | ||
| LR 345 | TWOMEY | An Act to Ensure that Proceeds After Deduction of Costs from the Sale of Foreclosed Property are Distributed to the Owner |
| LR 982 | GLYNN | An Act Concerning Tax-acquired Property |
| TAX - REVENUE SERVICES BUREAU - PROCEDURES | ||
| LR 179 | LEMOINE | An Act to Expand the Revenue-generating Authority of Municipalities |
| LR 269 | PERRY J | Resolve, to Study the Policies of the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services Regarding Tax Collection Practices |
| LR 429 | TWOMEY | An Act To Increase the Viability of a Resource-based Industry |
| LR 643 | LERMAN | An Act to Eliminate Discrimination Against Service Center Communities by Adjusting the 2nd-tier Formula for Revenue Sharing |
| LR 1330 | KOFFMAN | An Act to Establish Minimum Environmental Compliance Standards for Subsidized Employers |
| LR 1335 | MCLAUGHLIN | An Act to Conform the State Compromise of Tax Liability Procedure with Federal Procedures |
| TAX - REVENUE SERVICES BUREAU - TAXPAYER RIGHTS | ||
| LR 44 | DUPREY B | An Act to Create a Maine Taxpayer Bill of Rights |
| LR 242 | ANDREWS | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Control State Spending Based on Certain Guidelines |
| LR 1515 | CRESSEY | An Act to Strengthen the Maine Taxpayer Bill of Rights |
| TAX - SALES & USE TAX - | ||
| LR 356 | BENNETT R | An Act to Provide that Gas Purchased for Use in a Generator Be Taxed for Commercial Use |
| LR 704 | SNOWE-MELLO | An Act Regarding the Sales Tax Trade-in Credit |
| TAX - SALES & USE TAX - EXEMPT ITEMS | ||
| LR 17 | COLLINS | An Act to Eliminate the Maine Sales Tax on United States Flags |
| LR 440 | COWGER | An Act to Amend the Sales and Use Tax Law Regarding the Food Service and Lodging Industries |
| LR 629 | TOBIN J | An Act To Fairly Assess Sales Tax on Vehicles |
| LR 634 | DAIGLE | An Act to Clarify the Definition of Commercial Agricultural Production |
| LR 997 | LEMONT | An Act to Repeal the Sales Tax On All Over-the-counter Medications |
| TAX - SALES & USE TAX - EXEMPT PURCHASERS | ||
| LR 43 | DAVIS P | An Act to Provide a Sales Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Organizations That Provide Food and Lodging for Family Members of Patients in Hospitals |
| LR 73 | KANE | An Act to Promote Equity Among Health Care Clinics |
| LR 848 | WOODCOCK | An Act To Exempt Special Mobile Equipment from Sales Tax |
| TAX - SALES & USE TAX - GROSS RECEIPTS TAX | ||
| LR 829 | MILLS P | An Act to Shift Tax Burdens from Small Businesses and Wage Earners to the Gross Receipts of Large Retail Stores |
| LR 830 | MILLS P | An Act to Create the Maine Community Preservation Fund |
| LR 1024 | GAGNON | An Act to Replace the Sales Tax with a Gross Receipts Tax |
| TAX - SALES & USE TAX - ITEMS TAXED | ||
| LR 110 | BULL | An Act to Expand the Sales Tax |
| LR 110 | BULL | An Act to Expand the Sales Tax |
| LR 832 | MILLS P | An Act to Remove the Exemption for Dairy Products from the Sales Tax |
| TAX - SALES & USE TAX - LOCAL OPTION | ||
| LR 153 | LEMONT | An Act Allowing Municipalities to Retain a Percentage of any Increase in the Sales and Use Tax |
| LR 157 | LEMOINE | An Act to Permit a Local Option Sales Tax |
| LR 180 | LEMOINE | An Act to Allow a Local Option Liquor Tax |
| LR 421 | LEMOINE | An Act To Allow a Local Option Tax on Amusements |
| LR 835 | MILLS P | An Act to Permit a Limited Local Option Sales Tax |
| TAX - SALES & USE TAX - PROVISIONS REVISED | ||
| LR 939 | TRAHAN | An Act to Amend the Definition of "Commercial Agricultural Production" |
| TAX - SALES & USE TAX - RATE | ||
| LR 1695 | SUKEFORTH | An Act to Raise the Sales Tax to 6% |
| TAX - SALES & USE TAX - SELLER CREDIT | ||
| LR 364 | LEMONT | An Act to Allow Vendors to Retain a Portion of Sales Tax They Collect to Cover Costs |
| TAX - TAX ASSESSMENT - | ||
| LR 189 | LEMOINE | An Act to Allow Municipalities to assess a Surcharge on New Construction That is Not in a Designated Growth Area |
| TAX - TAX ASSESSMENT - VALUATION | ||
| LR 85 | DAVIS G | An Act to Enact the Present-home Protection Act |
| LR 112 | BULL | Resolve, To Study the Property Valuation Process |
| LR 129 | SULLIVAN | Resolution, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Stabilize Real Estate Valuation and Protect Ancestral Homes |
| LR 144 | MITCHELL | Resolve, To Reduce the State Valuation for the Town of Hermon |
| LR 406 | SUSLOVIC | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Allow Municipalities to Assess 2nd Homes at Up to Twice the Valuation |
| LR 862 | BROMLEY | An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Assessment of Property Taxes in the Event of a Change of Ownership of the Property |
| LR 1006 | HALL | An Act Concerning Boards of Assessment Review |
| LR 1253 | PARADIS | Resolve, to Require That the State Conduct a New Valuation of Private Properties in the Unorganized Territories of Aroostook County |
| LR 1433 | LEMOINE | An Act To Clarify Tax Appeal Procedures |
| LR 1720 | MARTIN | Resolve, Directing the State Tax Assessor to Adjust the State Valuation for the Town of Ashland |
| TAX - TAX INCREMENT FINANCING - | ||
| LR 559 | GOODWIN | An Act to Repeal the Tax Incentive for Certain Shipbuilding Facilities |
| LR 1065 | SUSLOVIC | An Act To Make Certain Housing an Acceptable Use of Tax Increment Financing |
| TAX - TAX INCREMENT FINANCING - DISTRICTS | ||
| LR 145 | MITCHELL | An Act to Amend School Administrative District Cost-sharing and County Tax Apportionments to Recognize the Value of Property in Municipal Tax Increment Financing Districts |
| LR 206 | EDER | An Act to Extend Tax Increment Financing Zones to Include the Development of Large-scale Rental Housing |
| LR 787 | MILLS P | An Act to Establish a Municipal Affordable Housing Development District Tax Increment Financing Program |
| LR 788 | MILLS P | An Act To Amend the Tax Increment Financing Laws To Include Affordable Housing |
| LR 1383 | MCLAUGHLIN | An Act To Prohibit Government-subsidized Competition with Lodging Establishments |
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