Business owners are cheering a proposal in Lansing to repeal and reform the Michigan Business Tax and the 22 percent surcharge that comes with it, according to WJRT-TV12 in Flint.
Mike LaFaive, director of the Morey Fiscal Policy, provides this analysis, which shows repealing the surcharge would create nearly 28,000 through 2016.
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