A new law made it so that they could no longer deduct their housing costs as a business expense on their federal income tax return.
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Proposed initiative would move Legislature to Anchorage
Attempts to move Alaska’s capital historically have failed due at least in part to the cost. There has been only one previous initiative to move just the Legislature — to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in 2002. It failed by a two-to-one margin.