{"id":24855,"date":"2017-02-16T23:37:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T07:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-fishing-group-flags-concerns-with-income-tax-proposal\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T23:37:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T07:37:27","slug":"alaska-fishing-group-flags-concerns-with-income-tax-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-fishing-group-flags-concerns-with-income-tax-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska fishing group flags concerns with income tax proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><strong>JUNEAU &mdash;<\/strong> A trade group for Alaska commercial fishermen is flagging concerns with a state House proposal that would reinstitute a personal income tax.<\/p>\n<p>United Fishermen of Alaska says many fishermen will have &ldquo;major difficulties&rdquo; complying with withholding requirements on payments to fishing crew.<\/p>\n<p>Association leaders, in a letter to the House Finance Committee co-chairs, say withholding requirements would fall on skippers who don&rsquo;t have the information they would need to estimate a crew member&rsquo;s potential federal tax liability. The tax, as proposed, would be 15 percent of what a person owes the federal government in taxes.<\/p>\n<p>They raised other concerns, too.<\/p>\n<p>The association, which says it has not taken a position either way on the bill, suggested a fix that would treat fishermen the same as people who are self-employed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU &mdash; A trade group for Alaska commercial fishermen is flagging concerns with a state House proposal that would reinstitute a personal income tax. United Fishermen of Alaska says many fishermen will have &ldquo;major difficulties&rdquo; complying with withholding requirements on payments to fishing crew. Association leaders, in a letter to the House Finance Committee co-chairs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24855"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}