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from NewsLink, Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 2000
By a 59% to 41% margin, Massachusetts voters approved Question 4, the rollback of the state personal income tax rate. The measure passed on November 7 repeals the law setting the state income tax rate on Part B taxable income (such as wages and salaries), which was 5.95% as of Sept. 1, 1999, and would set the rate at 5.6% for tax year 2001, 5.3% for tax year 2002 and 5% for tax year 2003 and after. If the legislature set a lower rate for any of those years, that lower rate would apply. The proposition carried 11 out of the state's 14 counties. (Source: Secretary of State, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.)
