Taxes Press Releases

05/07/2004

Smith Presented "Taxpayers' Friend Award" Rep. Nick Smith (R-Addison) was presented yesterday with his “Taxpayers’ Friend Award” for 2003 by The National Taxpayers Union. Smith has consistently voted to reduce federal spending, taxes, and debt while serving as a Member of the U.S. Congress. He was the only Member of the Michigan Congressional Delegation and one of only 29 of the 535 Members of the House and Senate to receive the award.

04/07/2004

Rep. Nick Smith Earns "Taxpayers' Friend Award" for 2003 The National Taxpayers Union announced today that Rep. Nick Smith (R-MI) has earned the “Taxpayers’ Friend Award” for 2003. The comprehensive and widely respected Rating of Congress is based on every roll call vote affecting fiscal policy in a given year, and by consistently voting to reduce federal spending, taxes, and debt, Smith earned one of the top scores this year among all Members of Congress. This is the fourth time in the past five years that Smith has earned the award.

04/02/2004

Smith Criticizes Governor Granholm's Death Tax Increase Rep. Nick Smith (R-MI) criticized Governor Jennifer Granholm today for her plan to increase Michigan’s death tax. Smith, who sponsored the bill to eliminate the inheritance tax while he served as a Michigan State Senator, said, “Michigan worked for 8 years to get rid of the inheritance tax to make the state more attractive for retirees. Increasing the Michigan tax by $94 million this year and $161 million next year will make it less attractive to retire in Michigan.”

05/09/2003

Citizen Group Salutes “Taxpayers’ Friends” in Congress Many Members of Congress talked about strengthening America’s economic security last year, but far fewer consistently backed up their words with votes. Thursday, a Capitol Hill ceremony sponsored by the 335,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU) presented “Taxpayers’ Friend Awards” to an elite group of 36 lawmakers who earned top scores on the group’s comprehensive and widely-respected Rating of Congress in 2002.

04/11/2003

Represenative Nick Smith Earns 'Taxpayers' Friend Award Congressman Nick Smith (MI-7) has earned the ‘Taxpayers’ Friend Award from the National Taxpayers Union for fiscal year 2002.

06/13/2002

Smith Votes to Repeal Marriage Penalty Tax Today U.S. Representative Nick Smith voted to permanently repeal the marriage penalty tax. The House passed H.R. 4019, by a vote of 271 to 142.

06/6/2002

Smith Supports House Passage of Death Tax Repeal Today U.S. Representative Nick Smith voted with the majority of the House of Representatives to permanently eliminate the death tax families pay on estates. The legislation, H.R. 2143, passed with a vote of 256 to 171.

03/21/2002

Seniors Can Count on Smith "Rep. Nick Smith (R-MI) can be depended on to protect Social Security and Medicare and to support a prescription drug benefit for seniors." That assertion was made by Jim Martin, President of the 60 Plus Association, a non-partisan senior citizens group with more than half a million members nationally, over 13,600 in Michigan and some 750 in the 7th Congressional District Smith represents.

02/28/2002

Nick Smith Named "Friend of the Shareholder" The American Shareholders Association presented Representative Nick Smith with its annual "Friend of the Shareholder Award" today.

10/16/2001

Smith Statement on Passage of Internet Tax Moratorium "I support this one-year extension on the moratorium, however, states need to eventually develop a uniform taxation proposal.

09/13/2000

"Taxing Marriage is an Unfair and Bad Policy" "The basic fact at the heart of this debate is that under our current tax code the IRS punishes millions of married couples who file their income taxes jointly by pushing them into higher tax brackets.

09/07/2000

Smith Votes to Override Death Tax Veto "I'm disappointed that election-year politics has once again prevented fair, bi-partisan legislation from being enacted into law. The big losers in the veto of death tax relief are farmers and family-owned businesses."

07/12/2000

Smith Hails Passage of Marriage Tax Relief Bill Legislation that will save more than $1,400 for nearly one million married couples in Michigan passed the House of Representatives today with the help of U.S. Rep. Nick Smith (R-Addison).

06/09/2000

House Buries the Unfair Death Tax "If you are rich and can hire an attorney, it is possible to get out of paying much or all of the federal death tax. Who pays are the people caught unaware that the increased value of their property exceeds the exemption.

05/25/2000

Smith Supports Repeal of the Telephone Excise Tax "One thing about Washington is that once a tax is on the books, it's hard to get rid of it. It's time to hang up the 102-year-old telephone tax once and for all.

05/03/2000

Tax Freedom Day Tax Freedom Day marks the day when Americans can stop working for the bloated Federal Government and start working for themselves, their children and their future.

04/11/2000

Smith Votes to Simplify Tax Code "As we approach the deadline for tax time, it is fitting to focus on the problems and frustrations American taxpayers have with the Internal Revenue Service."