[Vision2020] reviewing sales tax exemptions

[lfalen]

It would be good to review tax exemption. Better yet, get rid of all of them and do a flat tax.
Roger
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From: "JLBrown" jlbrown at turbonet.com
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:07:17 -0800
To: "'Vision 2020'" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] reviewing sales tax exemptions

> Visionaries,
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> Reps. Wendy Jaquet (D-Ketchum) and Grant Burgoyne (D-Boise) have a bill,
> which has been printed, to review all sales tax exemptions every 8 or fewer
> years and close those that are not justified.  This bill is in the House Rev
> and Tax committee and it is very uncertain whether Rep. Dennis Lake, the
> chairman, will give it a hearing.
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> The bill, HB 396, can be read at
> www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2010/H0396.htm.  I like the bill's
> inclusion of criteria for judging the worthiness of exemptions.
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> I strongly support reviewing exemptions.  However, I also think it is
> important to recognize that doing so will not resolve our current budget
> crisis.  With an 8-year cycle, or even a 5- or 3-year cycle, it will take
> some time for any significant change to occur.  For the current mess, we
> need a short-term fix right now, not a few years from now.
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> If you feel strongly about this bill or about the concept of reviewing
> exemptions, and would like it to have a public hearing, please let Chairman
> Lake know at dlake at house.Idaho.gov.
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> Judy
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