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MADem

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28. I understand it is income tax up (by a percent) and sales tax down?

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 04:37 PM

Jan 2013

I am lucky because, unless the law is changed, I will be unaffected.

MA is good to people like me on government pensions--we don't pay income taxes--we pay property taxes and sales tax and fees, but they do not tax government pensions or annuities. I don't feel bad about that; since I paid taxes for decades to the state, back when it was called "Taxachusetts" and never lived here and was lucky if I could get home for two weeks every other year.

I could have been sleazy way back when, and changed my home of residence to NH or FL to avoid taxes altogether, but I didn't, because MA was my home of record and it was the place I intended to return to after my time was up. So I paid the taxes without griping...

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I understand it is income tax up (by a percent) and sales tax down? MADem Jan 2013 #28

Income tax up by .75% but individual deductions doubled. Sales tax down 1% or so Blaukraut Jan 2013 #29