High court rules against Lumberton
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Supreme Court said Friday high taxes aren’t necessarily unlawful but had no problem striking down a city’s special levy on electronic sweepstakes businesses that was at least 600 times the original rate.
The justices ruled the decision of Lumberton’s leaders in 2010 to raise existing privilege taxes on sweepstakes locations in the city limits violated the state constitution’s provision that taxation be exercised...
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Gary D. Robertson
Associated Press
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