Technology and federal partnerships with the comptroller’s office helped Maryland collect more than $160 million in taxes that the state was owed, but were nearly impossible to get.
These funds are all back taxes, but Comptroller Peter Franchot said the state had not anticipated collecting them because litigation and other thorny issues stood in the way of the state taking conventional approaches to get its money.
A $4.8 million contract to maintain two I-95 rest stops in Howard County will be rebid after Comptroller Peter Franchot vehemently protested the selected contractor’s bid application at Wednesday’s Board of Public Works meeting.
H.D. Myles Inc. had initially been selected to receive the contract. However, H.D. Myles was not a registered Maryland corporation when it completed its bid application – which includes a signed affidavit swearing that all of the information it is submitting is true.
CUT ED FUNDS: Republican former Gov. Bob Ehrlich says he would chop $126 million in education funding that goes primarily to Baltimore and Montgomery and Prince George's counties and use the savings to offset a penny rollback to the state's sales tax, Annie Linskey...
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