More than 230 years ago, one of the first acts of the First Congress in 1789 included a relatively mundane, but important, tax policy allowing a refund on excise taxes. Unfortunately, this has become ...

GOP gubernatorial candidate Brian Shortsleeve is crowdsourcing his distaste for Gov. Maura Healey’s proposal to allow cities and towns to boost auto excise taxes. Healey has refiled the Municipal ...

Proposition KK would levy a new 6.5 percent excise tax on gunsellers for all sales of ammunition, firearms and gun parts. The money would fund programs for crime victims and behavioral health support ...

In 2022, lawmakers introduced a new excise tax on stock repurchases. This one percent tax applies to net share repurchases of large corporations and was projected to raise $73.6 billion over a decade.