President-elect Whitley tells Congress: preserve local taxing authority for counties

NACo President-elect Glen Whitley and Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas, president of the National Governors Association, testified on April 15 – Tax Day – on the impacts of Congressional legislation on state and local governments. The hearing was before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, chaired by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn). Whitley told the panel that Congress should “avoid preempting local taxing authority, preserve local budgeting flexibility and resist imposing unfunded federal mandates” on county governments.