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Mayor Wu Boston tax help coalition

Boston Tax Help Coalition offers free tax services for low-earning residents

Seamus Webster February 3, 2022
The Boston Tax Help Coalition (BTHC) provides free tax preparation services for city residents earning $60,000 or less per year.
boston city council meeting

City Council committee holding meetings to review annual budget, hear public testimony

Olga Benacerraf April 28, 2021
The recommended budget totals $3.75 billion, an increase of 3.9% over to FY21, which ends June 30.
cars on harvard avenue in allston

Master Plan hatched for Allston-Brighton

Greye Dunn April 12, 2021
Activists said the City Council failed to protect residents against rent hikes and gentrification.
row of houses in charlestown

City approves more than $370,000 in Charlestown Community Impact Fund grants

Daniel Kool March 24, 2021
Its Managing Committee approved “mini-grants” of $2,500 to $20,000 to local nonprofits.
Sophia Flissler/DFP STAFF

Minority Report: Let Scots breathe free

Lincoln Son Currie March 10, 2021
Scots must be given another independence referendum and free themselves at last. Their time has come.
Chandler pond in Chestnut Hill

Community Preservation Committee recommends projects for new funding

Taylor Brokesh February 25, 2021
The Boston City Council will vote to approve funding, which totals more than $25 million in grants from the Community Preservation Fund.
A condominium complex in Kenmore Square. A group of Boston tenants has formed the Fineberg Tenants Organization to protect tenants from evictions and to advocate for better living conditions. THALIA LAUZON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Tenants organize for better living conditions, eviction protections

Allison Pirog October 13, 2020
The organization has mostly recruited new members through flyering campaigns because it’s easier to practice social distancing when flyering than canvassing. It now has nearly 200 members.
Luca Becker

I Call Foul Play: Billionaires Will Continue to Act Immorally — Tax Them

Luca Becker September 29, 2020
The American people must call for change. In a climate where the same wealth inequalities that plagued their grandparents are being exacerbated, citizens must ask themselves if billionaires should even exist.
A bill that would permanently ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products passed through the Massachusetts House of Representatives Wednesday. SOFIA KOYAMA/ DFP FILE ILLUSTRATION

Mass. House of Representatives approves permanent ban on flavored tobacco products

Kate Gilberd November 15, 2019
In an effort to combat under-age vaping, the state House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to ban the sale of flavored vapes and institute a 75 percent tax on all other vaping products.

Tax-based aid needs reform, report suggests

Daily Free Press Admin February 27, 2013

Redirecting tax-based aid to be more available for low-income students could both increase college enrollment and completion rates for such students, and serve to strengthen the economy, according to a...

EDIT: MBTA to levy taxes

Daily Free Press Admin February 25, 2013

Whether a private company, no matter how vital to the public, should be allowed to levy taxes on said public is debatable. The question is currently on the table as state senators question how to deal...

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