{"id":26143,"date":"2019-04-29T04:18:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T10:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26143"},"modified":"2019-04-29T04:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T10:18:13","slug":"statewide-occupation-tax-reporting-requirement-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26143","title":{"rendered":"Statewide occupation tax reporting requirement approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 29 that requires all Nebraska cities to report the impact of occupation taxes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20153\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20153\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20153\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcDonnell_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1479304079&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;116&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senmcdonnell_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Mike McDonnell&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Mike McDonnell&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcDonnell_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20153\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcDonnell_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Mike McDonnell\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcDonnell_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcDonnell_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Mike McDonnell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB445, sponsored by Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha, requires cities to produce an annual report detailing:<br \/>\n\u2022 the purpose of the occupation tax;<br \/>\n\u2022 any special project designation;<br \/>\n\u2022 the amount of tax dollars collected;<br \/>\n\u2022 how the money was spent or is budgeted to be spent; and<br \/>\n\u2022 the scheduled or projected end date of the tax.<\/p>\n<p>The mandated report will be made available for public inspection on a municipality\u2019s website or other location no later than 90 days after the end of the municipality\u2019s fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>LB445 passed on a 42-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 29 that requires all Nebraska cities to report the impact of occupation taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[194],"class_list":["post-26143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-affairs","tag-sen-mike-mcdonnell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26145,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26143\/revisions\/26145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}