Democrats and Governor Lynch, facing massive deficits, have effectively raised taxes almost 87 times in the last 4 years. Rep. Almy of the House Ways and Means Committee is still dreaming up ways to tax NH residents even more.<\/p>\n
Thanks to one of our astute taxpayer watchdogs, we have a list of 66 of those taxes or fees:<\/p>\n
2010-2011 New Tax Increases totaled over $350,000,000.00<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Increased Tobacco tax by 34% (HB 2) 2008-2009 New Tax Increases totaled over $313,000,000.00<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Increase the Tobacco Tax 35% (HB2) Related Documents [PDF]: Democrats and Governor Lynch, facing massive deficits, have effectively raised taxes almost 87 times in the last 4 years. Rep. Almy of the House Ways and Means Committee is still dreaming up ways to tax NH residents even more. Thanks to one of our astute taxpayer watchdogs, we have a list of 66 of those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,71,11,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadbased","category-governor-watch","category-legislation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6733,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/6733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n 2. Increased Rooms and Meals tax by 12% (HB2)
\n 3. Increased MV record fees by 41-100% (HB 2)
\n 4. Increased MV certified copy fee by 100% (HB 2)
\n 5. Increased the DES load fund fee by 100% (HB2)
\n 6. Increased DES\/ Land subdivision review fees by 100-107% (HB 2)
\n 7. Increased inspection sticker tax 30% (HB 2)
\n 8. Increased R. E. Commission tax on electronic filing by additional 2%
\n 9. Increased tax on judicial fines by 16%
\n 10. Created a $100 fee for annulment of records at DOT
\n 11. New Saltwater fishing license fee from $15-150
\n 12. Double fee for Boat Registration
\n 13. Increased Lake Preservation boat tax by 50%
\n 14. Increased Boat agent fee 233%
\n 15. Increased Boat transfer tax by 66%
\n 16. Increased Boat Captain tax 225%, plus new re-testing tax of $10 each
\n 17. New $250 Tax for certification of Cigarettes ignition propensity
\n 18. Increased tax on non-cigarette tobacco by 30%, on wholesale price
\n 19. New $25.00 tax on request for payment extension at Judicial Branch
\n 20. Increased gun permit fee by 400% for non-residents
\n 21. Increased Vanity Plate fee 60%
\n 22. Allow the Dept of HHS to create new taxes through rules\u2026.
\n 23. Increase taxes on Health Facility Licenses from 1140% to 3233%
\n 24. Increased Condo and Land sale fees 67%-150%
\n 25. Authorizes DRA to \u201cSeek Additional Revenue from existing state taxes\u201d
\n 26. Increased Motor Vehicle registration tax by $30-75.00\/year on each car
\n 27. Increased Motor Vehicle Trailer tax by 166%
\n 28. Increased Motorcycle tax by 200%
\n 29. Created 10% tax on gambling winnings
\n 30. Eliminated certain wine discounts for wine wholesalers
\n 31. New tax on \u201cReal Estate Holding Companies\u201d, to include \u201cother organizations\u201d
\n 32. New $5,000 bond to be required by all Restaurants and Lodging operations
\n 33. New financial sale requirements to show State if interest in company changes ($6 Mil)
\n 34. Creation of the LLC I & D Tax
\n 35. Increased in the Judicial Branch fees and fines across the Board<\/p>\n
\n 2. Increased car registration fees 24% (HB2)
\n 3. Increased Motorcycle registration fees 25% (HB2)
\n 4. Increased Tractor Trailer registration fees 14% (HB2)
\n 5. Created a new $25 surcharge on court filing fees (HB2)
\n 6. Created a new $25 surcharge for recording deeds (HB2)
\n 7. Increased the fee for reviewing terrain alteration plans 150% (HB2)
\n 8. Increased the fee for shoreline structure applications 100% (HB2)
\n 9. Increased the fee for dredge and fill projects 100% (HB2)
\n 10. Imposed a 7% communication tax on basic residential telephone service (HB2)
\n 11. Increased the insurance Premium Tax (HB2)
\n 12. New Fees to fund a Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (HB2)
\n 13. Increased fees for mandatory water testing (HB2)
\n 14. Increased Turkey Hunting fee (from 200-500% res\/non-resident)
\n 15. Increased the moose permit to $450 (HB2)
\n 16. Increased the hazardous waste permit fee 50% (HB472)
\n 17. Increased the hazardous waste generator fee by 50% (HB472)
\n 18. Changed Rooms and meals license fee from one time to biennial fee (HB599)
\n 19. Increased the annual dam registration fee by 40-400% (HB 664)
\n 20. Increased bail fees 255 (HB 1414)
\n 21. Increased gas tax 9% (HB 1426)
\n 22. Increased diesel fuel tax 7% (HB1426)
\n 23. New fees for what was free documentation from DOT (HB1448)
\n 24. New fees for charitable games (HB1509)
\n 25. Increased car registration fees $1.00 (HB1596)
\n 26. Created new moped registration fee (HB1596)
\n 27. Increased the Mortgage company registration fee by 500% (SB1616)
\n 28. Increased the Mortgage company renewal fee by 1000% (SB161)
\n 29. Increased tobacco tax 23% (SB321)
\n 30. Created new fees surcharge for Family Courts (SB350)
\n 31. Increased fees charged by the Secretary of State (SSHB1)<\/p>\n
\nListing of the 2009 Taxes and Fees<\/a>
\nNH’s Alec-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index Rating<\/a>
\nSummary of the 2009 NH State Budget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"