The Supreme Judicial Court struck down the so-called millionaire tax in a long-awaited ruling that finds the proposal ran afoul of the state constitution by combining unrelated subjects of the tax increase and spending on education and transportation.
“We conclude that the initiative petition should not have been certified by the Attorney General as ‘in proper form for submission to the people,’ because, contrary to the certification, the petition does not contain only subjects ’which are related or which are mutually dependent’,” Justice Frank M. Gaziano wrote in the decision.