Alaska, in many respects, is a cheaper tax place to do business and should be a very attractive place for companies to locate or expand in.

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You had a president who was clearly committed to fundamental tax reform, and we assumed that they would be taking that commitment to heart.

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If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United States, it would rank very poorly because it's a very complicated corporate tax system, very high tax rates, but that is offset and balanced by the fact that Alaska does not have a personal income tax and does not have a sales tax.

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Instead, what we see is yet another blue-ribbon panel tinkering around the edges of a system that is absolutely broken.

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Taxes matter to businesses. How a state taxes business is just as important as how much a state taxes businesses.

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If local citizens want to pony up the money to right this wrong, they should put up the tax dollars. They should not come begging to Washington to do it.

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Americans spent 6 billion hours last year complying with the tax code.

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Alaska has the third best tax system for business in the nation for the second year in a row.

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States do not enact tax changes in a vacuum. Every tax change will affect a state's competitive position relative to its neighbors, as well as globally.

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