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I couldn't help but laugh, when Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo said that "we are always listening to businesses as we continue to do."

Mayor Jon Mitchell says he understands the concerns of property owners in New Bedford after the City Council raised the tax rate Monday night. Mitchell says however, if the city is going to improve, the residents have to be willing to chip in...

Voters approved the Community Preservation Act at the polls last November.

In a 7-3 vote, the City Council set the 2015 tax factor to 173 Tuesday evening. The increase will result in higher taxes for both home and business owners.

Yet another apparent scam is working its way through another Southcoast community. Dartmouth Police say they've fielded numerous complaints regarding phone scams where the caller poses as an Internal Revenue Service representative. The caller will go onto say the resident owes back taxes, and may even have some personal information of theirs already, including address, date of birth, and the last

State authorities are warning Massachusetts residents about a nationwide phone scam that aggressively targets taxpayers. The state attorney's general's office says it has received several complaints about the scam. The scammer usually claims to be from the Internal Revenue Service or another government agency, and tells the target they will be arrested because they did not pay or did not correctly

A state senator wants to impose Massachusetts' 6.25 percent sales tax on medical marijuana purchases and assess soon-to-be opened dispensaries a 4 percent surcharge on their revenues. Sen. Brian Joyce, a Democrat from Milton, proposes money generated from the marijuana taxes be designated to a new state fund for substance abuse treatment programs...

Republican lawmakers and business groups are ramping up pressure on the Legislature to repeal a new sales tax on computer and software services.

More Democratic legislators are fessing up and admitting that the recent passing of the 6.25% sales tax, to a wide variety of computer and software services, was a bad idea and want it repealed.

First she was for it, and now State Senator Karen Spilka has changed her mind about the new computer software services tax, and wants it repealed!