Machinery and tools tax; classifies car washing businesses as separate class of property. (HB298)

Introduced By

Del. Ed Scott (R-Culpeper)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

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

DateAction
01/10/2012Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100037D
01/10/2012Referred to Committee on Finance
01/12/2012Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1
01/21/2012Impact statement from TAX (HB298)
02/01/2012Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
02/06/2012Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/07/2012Read first time
02/08/2012Read second time and engrossed
02/09/2012Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
02/09/2012VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/10/2012Constitutional reading dispensed
02/10/2012Referred to Committee on Finance
02/15/2012Impact statement from TAX (HB298)
02/21/2012Reported from Finance (14-Y 0-N 1-A) (see vote tally)
02/22/2012Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/23/2012Read third time
02/23/2012Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 1-A) (see vote tally)
02/28/2012Enrolled
02/28/2012Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB298ER)
02/28/2012Impact statement from TAX (HB298ER)
02/28/2012Signed by Speaker
02/29/2012Signed by President
03/20/2012G Approved by Governor-Chapter 267 (effective 7/1/12)
03/20/2012G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267)

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 2 clips in all, totaling 2 minutes.

Comments

James O'Neil writes:

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.