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Bowling and health care legislation stand out in legislative session's first week
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| Last Edited | RBH Jan 12, 2008 02:50pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, January 13, 2008 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The legislature this year will take up several far-reaching issues, including immigration, health care, education and bowling.
Bowling?
Among the hundreds of bills already filed this session is House Bill 1548, a piece of legislation that seems to come straight out of left field.
Or perhaps the left gutter.
The bill, introduced by Republican Rep. Dwight Scharnhorst of St. Louis County, would exempt sales tax on purchases of “equipment, machinery, materials, supplies, fixtures, and shoes used in the sport of bowling.”
Scharnhorst, a self-described “stickler for sales tax,” says bowling alley owners should be exempted since their products are used by customers who pay taxes on their rental and participation fees. The idea came to him, he said, from a lobbyist for small businesses.
“A lot of times when companies have to pay sales taxes, they get charged time and time again,” he said.
While Scharnhorst said he has “no special affinity” for bowling. But he does have personal experience with sales tax issues. As a professional photographer, he’s struggled for years with how the state taxes his sitting fees.
“We’ve got enough taxes in this life,” he said. This is the second year Scharnhorst has brought such a bill forward. In 2007, it cleared the House, but was stripped out of a bill in the Senate. |
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