Machinery and tools tax; classifies car washing businesses as separate class of property. (HB298)
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Description
Machinery and tools tax; car washing businesses. Classifies machinery and tools used to clean motor vehicles by a motor vehicle cleaning business as a separate class of property for tax rate purposes. Read the Bill »
Outcome
Bill Has Passed
History
Date | Action |
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01/10/2012 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100037D |
01/10/2012 | Referred to Committee on Finance |
01/12/2012 | Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 |
01/21/2012 | Impact statement from TAX (HB298) |
02/01/2012 | Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) |
02/06/2012 | Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/07/2012 | Read first time |
02/08/2012 | Read second time and engrossed |
02/09/2012 | Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) |
02/09/2012 | VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/10/2012 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
02/10/2012 | Referred to Committee on Finance |
02/15/2012 | Impact statement from TAX (HB298) |
02/21/2012 | Reported from Finance (14-Y 0-N 1-A) (see vote tally) |
02/22/2012 | Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/23/2012 | Read third time |
02/23/2012 | Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 1-A) (see vote tally) |
02/28/2012 | Enrolled |
02/28/2012 | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB298ER) |
02/28/2012 | Impact statement from TAX (HB298ER) |
02/28/2012 | Signed by Speaker |
02/29/2012 | Signed by President |
03/20/2012 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 267 (effective 7/1/12) |
03/20/2012 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
Comments
Why is this bill necessary? By what logic should a car wash be classified separately from all other businesses which use machinery in their operations? This bill would appear to be for a special interest and unnecessarily complicates the tax code. By this same logic we could have many separate categories of classification and then we would need a way to qualify businesses for special classification. The local machinery tax isn't particularly arduous, why not keep things fair, level and efficient. This looks like pork and goes against the principle of keeping government small, efficient, and minimally intrusive to business interests. We don't need more regulation.