{"id":4430,"date":"2016-02-19T09:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T17:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/public-invited-to-testify-on-mining-tax-increase\/"},"modified":"2016-02-19T09:05:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T17:05:42","slug":"public-invited-to-testify-on-mining-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/public-invited-to-testify-on-mining-tax-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Public invited to testify on mining tax increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The resources committee of the Alaska House of Representatives will take public testimony at 1 p.m. today on a proposed increase to the state\u2019s mining tax.<\/p>\n<p>The increase, proposed by Gov. Bill Walker to partially fill the state\u2019s $3.7 billion annual deficit, would raise about $6 million per year by increasing the effective tax rate on the state\u2019s largest mines from 7 percent to 9 percent. In 2014, 13 mines or companies earned at least $100,000 and fell into that tax bracket.<\/p>\n<p>To offer testimony, visit Capitol Room 124 or call 465-4527 or 465-3473.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resources committee of the Alaska House of Representatives will take public testimony at 1 p.m. today on a proposed increase to the state\u2019s mining tax. The increase, proposed by Gov. Bill Walker to partially fill the state\u2019s $3.7 billion annual deficit, would raise about $6 million per year by increasing the effective tax rate [&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-4430","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\/4430","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=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}