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September 5, 2024 by
West Virginia Should Adopt Free File for 2025 Tax Season

Tax filing can be a costly and complicated process for families and small businesses. The reason the system is so complicated is because for years, paid tax preparation corporations have profited by charging families to fulfill their legal obligation to file taxes each year. These companies, including Intuit and H&R Block, have conducted massive lobbying efforts…

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October 10, 2012 by
Medicaid Expansion Would Provide Coverage to 130,000 West Virginians

Nearly 130,000 West Virginia parents and other adults could get health insurance through an expansion of Medicaid to allow more working families to participate, as outlined in the law. Expansion promises to lower costs for hospitals that treat large numbers of patients without insurance, costs which now add up to more than $700 million in…

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April 8, 2021 by
Latest Senate Income Tax Elimination Bill Still Cuts Taxes for the Wealthy While Raising Taxes for Everyone Else and Slashing the Budget

Last night, on a narrow 18-16 vote, the Senate passed an amended version of HB 3300, making significant changes to the version of the bill that the Senate Finance Committee had introduced just days before. The amended bill was voted on mere hours after being introduced, and was passed without a full fiscal analysis. With…

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December 2, 2024 by
Latest State Revenue Ticks Up, but There’s Not Much Give for Ambitious Spending Next Year

West Virginia MetroNews - Heading toward an incoming administration and a newly-seated legislature, West Virginia’s state revenue is just above water. Read the full article. The latest state revenue figures show collections are just about $5 million ahead of projection. That is the margin for the $2.1 billion in general revenue that the state has collected for…

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May 10, 2017 by
Latest Compromise Tax Plan Still a Bad Deal for West Virginia

Last week, the governor called the legislature back into special session to continue work on the state budget. The actual budget bill, however, was not part of the call, instead the intention was for the legislature to vote on a compromise tax plan that would influence how the budget was finalized. The version of the plan (…

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September 15, 2017 by
Cassidy-Graham is the Latest Attempt to Take Away Healthcare Coverage from Thousands of West Virginians

The latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Cassidy-Graham bill, would cut West Virginia's funding for Medicaid by $2.0 billion by 2027. This would undermine health coverage for tens of thousands of West Virginian's and threaten the state's historic gains in health coverage stemming from the Affordable Care Act. The Cassidy-Graham bill cuts…

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April 6, 2021 by
Non-profit, Non-partisan Group Reacts to Latest Income Tax Proposal

WSAZ - The executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy says the latest version of Gov. Jim Justice’s plan to repeal the state income tax is “pretty similar to his original proposal.” Read the full article. The “Justice 4 All” version of the plan was announced Monday evening at a meeting with…

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September 29, 2023 by
Shepherd is Latest State University to Address Financial Issues

West Virginia Watch, Huntington News Network, Hampshire Review - Shepherd University, a small, public university in the Eastern Panhandle, is the latest West Virginia higher education institution to announce that it has made staff reductions and program changes in an effort to deal with its debt. Read the full article. The university is trying to…

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