Interest Groups Protesting Patrick Plan to Tax Awards

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Advisory Council and the state Bar Association are calling on Gov. Deval Patrick to abandon a plan that would apply the state's personal income tax to all indemnity payments made as part of workers' compensation awards beginning on July 1, 2014.Patrick's $34.8 billion budget for fiscal 2013-2014 would eliminate 44 exemptions from the state's 5.25% tax on personal income tax and boost the overall income tax to 6.25% beginning on July 1, 2013.The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation estimated that ...