Council in the News
Massachusetts High Technology Council media coverage.
Nonstop Flight Connects Boston, China
By Donna Goodison The first nonstop air service between Boston and Beijing will be announced next week, the Herald has learned — and it promises to dramatically boost business between a leading...
Biz: Tie Wage Hike to Jobless Pay, Groups Say Insurance Reform Essential
By Donna Goodison Boston Herald Business groups indicated they are willing to back a more modest minimum wage hike than the state Senate wants, but insist on tying any increase to unemployment...
Biz Group may be open to Mass. Minimum Wage Hike
NOTE: The council demonstrated its clout earlier this year as one of the business groups that successfully lobbied the Legislature to repeal the ‘‘tech tax,’’ a short-lived sales tax on computer and...
Tech Industry Opposes Minimum Wage Increase without UI Reforms
By Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter Boston Business Journal The tech industry is largely opposed to the minimum wage increase proposed by the state Senate earlier this month, according to a...
High Tech Official Pitches UI Reforms to DeLeo
By M. Norton State House News Service Massachusetts High Tech Council President Chris Anderson reported a "great" meeting with Speaker Robert DeLeo Monday morning, telling the News Service...
The Wages of Compromise on Beacon Hill
NOTE: Indeed, Chris Anderson, president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, says that “a majority of our members would support raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour if the same...
Senate Votes to Postpone Minimum Wage Hike until July 1, 2014
NOTE: Chris Anderson, president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, echoed the speaker’s sentiments in a statement Tuesday afternoon. “Any debate on increasing the minimum wage should be...
Gov. Patrick Hosts AF Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh
BOSTON – Friday, November 8, 2013 – Governor Deval Patrick, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator Edward Markey, U.S. Representative John Tierney and U.S. Representative Niki Tsongas today...
Deval Signs Repeal of 6.25 Percent Tech Tax
By Jordan Graham Boston Herald Gov. Deval Patrick repealed the tech tax yesterday, a move welcomed by an industry leader who said “it never should have become law.” The governor’s signature brought...
A Victory for Tech: Mass. Legislature Votes to Repeal Tech Tax
NOTE: To that point, Chris Anderson, president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, said in a statement that the engagement has already begun. "The Tech Tax has awakened a new generation of...
Tech tax fiasco may do a number on pols
By Matt Stout Boston Herald The state’s controversial tech tax appears primed for repeal after legislative leaders reversed course yesterday, but the ill will it generated could continue to dog the...
Mass. lawmakers agree to repeal ‘tech tax’
NOTE: ''The reputation damage that we have suffered will take time to repair,'' said Chris Anderson, president of the Massachusetts High Tech Council, who urged lawmakers and the governor to engage...
New Mass. sales tax angers, confuses tech firms
By Bob Salsberg THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — A new Massachusetts sales tax on software and computer services, part of a massive transportation financing plan that became law last month, has been...
The Sunshine State means business
By Jeff Jacoby GLOBE COLUMNIST DAYS AFTER Massachusetts residents began feeling the sting of new tax increases, Florida’s Republican governor, Rick Scott, cheerfully reminded them that they have...
Lawmaker moves to repeal software tax
By Michael B. Farrell Democratic state Senator Karen Spilka filed a bill to repeal the recently enacted software services tax that has triggered an uproar within the Massachusetts technology...
The Tech Tax Squeeze
By Tom Keane BOSTON GLOBE COLUMNIST If those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, then a number of legislators should be looking over their shoulders, wondering whether their...
Tax cuts, pay hikes heading to 2014 ballot
By Peter Howe NECN The new Massachusetts sales tax on software and computer services may be barely eight days old – but it’s already being targeted for repeal at the November 2014 by some of the...
Business owners caught off-guard by new computer services tax
NOTE: Christopher Anderson, president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, blamed the lack of awareness on media inattention. “Most of the attention was on the gas tax, the cigarette tax,...
High Tech Tax Bugs Business
NOTE: "Massachusetts has a very strong technology economy with the highest percentage of technology workers in the country," said Chris Anderson, president of the Massachusetts High Technology...
Business groups launch ballot campaign to repeal Massachusetts software services tax
By Shira Schoenberg The Springfield Republican A coalition of Massachusetts business leaders is launching a ballot campaign asking voters to repeal a new tax on software services. “We’re getting...
Business leaders fight technology tax in Mass.
By Michael B. Farrell BOSTON GLOBE Business leaders fight technology tax in Mass. Seek ballot item to end state’s levy; say computer sector mistreated A coalition of business leaders from some of...