Tax talk now has income target – Raleigh News & Observer

RALEIGH — Legislative leaders reached a basic agreement on a tax plan late Wednesday that limits a proposed 2 percent income tax surcharge to North Carolinians who earn more than $250,000 a year. “There’s a broad agreement,” said Bill Holmes, spokesman for House Speaker Joe Hackney, a Chapel Hill Democrat. “There are still a couple small things they want to talk about. It’s an agreement in principle. The plan otherwise resembles a compromise that fell apart last week …