Victor Joecks
2015 Nevada Legislative Session Review and Report Card
Executive Summary On November 5, 2014, Nevada woke up to a vastly different state politically. Voters had…
Parent: ESAs will improve my child's education; NPRI: ACLU lawsuit is legally flawed
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Victor Joecks, 702-222-0642 LAS VEGAS — Responding to news that the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a Constitutional challenge against Nevada’s groundbreaking Education Savings…
Governor's new tax plan still has numerous structural, constitutional issues
CARSON CITY – Today, the Assembly Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees held a joint hearing on Gov. Brian Sandoval’s new tax proposal, which was heard as an amendment to AB464. Sandoval’s tax plan would increase the modified business tax, raise the business license fee and create a new gross receipts tax, called the “commerce” tax. NPRI executive vice president Victor Joecks offered the following testimony.
NPRI releases alternative budget proposal
CARSON CITY – Today, the Nevada Policy Research Institute released an alternative line-by-line budget for Nevada, entitled the Freedom Budget 2016-2017.
NPRI comments on Sandoval's job-killing gross receipts BLT
CARSON CITY – In response to today’s hearing by the Senate and Assembly Taxation Committees on Gov. Brian Sandoval’s Gross Receipt Business License Tax, NPRI Executive Vice President Victor Joecks released the following comments: Gov. Brian Sandoval can put on a political circus, but his dog-and-pony show can’t mask the problems with SB252, his Gross Receipt Business License Tax. In November, voters rejected a similar proposal by a 4-to-1 ratio, because they understood that raising taxes on businesses that are losing money will kill jobs and force struggling businesses to close their doors.
NPRI: Gov. Sandoval’s proposed business license tax is complex, destructive, unnecessary
CARSON CITY – Responding to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s release of details of his new business-license tax proposal, NPRI executive vice president Victor Joecks issued the following comments: As part of his push for the largest tax increase in Nevada history, Gov. Sandoval is unfortunately trying to subject all Nevada businesses to a destructive new gross receipts tax. His proposal is a modified version of the margin tax that voters rejected last fall by a massive 4-to-1 margin
Retiring in the lap of luxury
This analysis examines 10 of Nevada’s largest government agencies and compares the full-year equivalent 2013 retirement payouts of 2011-2013 retirees who had 30 years of service or more with their final-year base pay.
NPRI spearheads nationwide campaign to let union members know how to exit their unions
NPRI released a poll showing that 82.9 of Nevadans support the concept of right-to-work.