Council in the News
Massachusetts High Technology Council media coverage.
Bay State’s new software tax just doesn’t compute
Imagine a Massachusetts-based company that performs work on computer software, sometimes for in-state firms, at other times for companies headquartered elsewhere. Imagine further that this...
Tech firms learning a hard, costly lesson
By Scott Kirsner BOSTON GLOBE Back in March, I had a chance to interview Governor Deval Patrick on stage at a Boston hotel, in front of several hundred tech workers. The Massachusetts innovation...
Mass Tech Tax Stirs Unease Over Impacts
By Andy Metzger State House News Service While drivers and smokers conversant in the doings of state government will have a fairly simple calculation for the added costs brought on by a $500 million...
Doesn’t compute; Massachusetts software tax a terrible idea
Worcester Telegram and Gazette Editorial Gov. Deval L. Patrick and state lawmakers are fond of touting Massachusetts’ comparative economic advantages, including high technology, computers and...
Transportation Financing – Tech Tax Must Go
BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL CURRENTLY SITTING on Governor Patrick’s desk is a state transportation financing bill that raises an average of $600 million in revenue over the next five years. Some of the...
Possible Tech Levy Alarms Sector
Executives, groups say tax vague, unfair; Could hit state’s big companies, start-ups By Michael B. Farrell Technology executives and trade groups are alarmed by potential new taxes on computer...
Patrick Won’t Accept Transpo $$ Plan as Written by Legislative Leaders
By Matt Murphy and Michael Norton State House News Service Gov. Deval Patrick cast doubt on promises from House and Senate leaders that the Legislature’s compromise transportation financing plan...
Behind the Big Profits: A Research Tax Break
By SCOTT THURM The Wall Street Journal Strong first-quarter corporate profits may not be quite as good as they look. An analysis by The Wall Street Journal shows that the extension of a big tax...
Hiring Heats Up Along Rt. 128
By Scott Van Voorhis Boston Globe The job market along the Route 128 corridor is back. And it’s not just all about the corporate giants. A bevy of small and midsize life science and high-tech...
Biz Slams Brakes on Deval Patrick’s $1.9B Plan
By Ira Kantor Boston Herald Gov. Deval Patrick’s $1.9 billion transportation plan has failed to win the support of business groups, which are lining up behind the Legislature’s $500 million bill,...
Pols Counter with $500M Transport Plan
By Chris Cassidy Boston Herald House and Senate leaders yesterday fired the loudest shots so far in a brewing Beacon Hill battle over taxes, tossing aside Gov. Deval Patrick’s $1 billion...
Mass. gets Scaled-Back Transportation Plan
Top lawmakers offer $500m finance program with narrower aims than Patrick’s $1.9b agenda By Martine Powers Boston Globe Beacon Hill leaders announced a $500 million transportation finance plan...
Plan Reignites Debate over Balancing Tax Burdens, Transpo Investments
By Matt Murphy and Andy Metzger State House News Service STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, APRIL 2, 2013….House and Senate leaders on Tuesday roundly rejected Gov. Deval Patrick’s plan for $1.9 billion in new...
Proposed Tax Increases a Concern for Mass. Businesses
By Jay Fitzgerald Boston Globe For much of the past several months, local businesses have had their eyes on Washington, as Congress and the Obama administration faced off in one showdown after...
Proposed Sales Tax on Computer and Data Processing and Custom Software Opens Pandora’s Box
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation The proposal to tax computer and data processing services and custom software is a Pandora’s box, raising numerous problems for virtually all businesses in the...
Patrick’s Software Tax Plan Opposed by Tech Industry
By Mary Moore Boston Business Journal A new proposal by Gov. Deval Patrick to broaden the types of software services that can be taxed is already running into opposition from the tech industry. In...
New Front in Charter Schools
In Massachusetts, a Pair of Democrats Pust to Lift Restrictions in Some Districts By Jennifer Levitz The Wall Street Journal Massachusetts lawmakers are considering eliminating a cap on the number...
Inertia and the Mass. Biz Climate
ViewPoint Never before had CEOs and officials in Massachusetts been assembled in a room to talk specifically about why they do business here and what they wish were different. The passionate and...
State Economy Grows Just 1 Percent in Q4
By Dan O'Brien Lowell Sun Economic growth in the state sputtered along at 1 percent during the fourth quarter, according to a report released Wednesday by MassBenchmarks, a journal of the state...
Mass. Economy Still Outpacing US
By Globe Staff The Massachusetts economy grew slightly faster than the nation as a whole at the end of last year, continuing a modest expansion despite the economic crisis in Europe and political...
Bill to Seek End of Mass. Cap on Charter Schools
By James Vaznis Boston Globe A group of charter school advocates, business leaders, and legislators is pushing to abolish a state-imposed cap on the number of charter schools that can operate in...