Facing a Monday deadline to adjourn, Senate negotiators on Thursday evening offered a concession that appeared to bring within reach a budget deal and forestall increasing chatter in Annapolis of extending the General Assembly session.

Senate Budget and Taxation Committee Chairman Edward J. Kasemeyer (D-Baltimore County) said the upper chamber would ease away from plans for an across-the-board income tax hike in exchange for an even higher tax rate on six-figure earners than either the House or Senate previously approved.

In limiting a tax increases to high-income earners, the compromise plan would salvage a key requirement of House

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