{"id":3297,"date":"2013-05-28T09:27:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T13:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2013-05-28T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T13:27:33","slug":"texas-legislature-passes-tax-cuts-for-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/05\/texas-legislature-passes-tax-cuts-for-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas legislature passes tax cuts for businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/texas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3298\" alt=\"texas\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/texas-300x279.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/texas-300x279.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/texas-150x139.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/texas-400x372.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/texas.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas lawmakers sent Governor Rick Perry more than $1 billion in proposed business tax cuts shortly before the end of the biennial legislative session on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The tax-cut package &#8211; the final piece of which was approved by the House and Senate late on Sunday &#8211; includes an extension of a business franchise tax exemption for small businesses and a rate cut for businesses of all sizes.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-majority legislature also approved about $300 million in electricity rebates.<\/p>\n<p>Perry, a Republican, had called on lawmakers to pass tax relief for businesses. Thirty-five states are taking up tax reform in their current legislative sessions, according to a recent survey by the National Conference of State Legislatures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE: \u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/05\/27\/us-usa-taxes-texas-idUSBRE94Q0LG20130527\" target=\"_Blank\">Texas legislature passes tax cuts for businesses | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Texas lawmakers sent Governor Rick Perry more than $1 billion in proposed business tax cuts shortly before the end of the biennial legislative session on Monday. The tax-cut package &#8211; the final piece of which was approved by the House and Senate late on Sunday &#8211; includes an extension of a business franchise tax&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22,7],"tags":[24,45,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}