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Tax on Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts Sales Under Fire

14 March 2011

Every now and again, something just strikes people the wrong way. This morning, my email box was blowing up about a little matter in Georgia: House Bill 385 (downloads as a pdf). The bill, which weighs in at an amazing 127 pages, is already generating heat for its plans to provide a “comprehensive revision of [...]

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Fix The Tax Code Friday: Tax on Personal Services?

8 June 2007

Earlier in the week, I reported that Georgia is considering implementing a tax on personal services, meaning that professions like barber shops, law firms and accountants would impose a tax on their services, which would likely be passed through to the consumer. This tax would replace property taxes in Georgia. Now, normally, my Fix the [...]

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The First Thing We Do, Let’s Tax All of the Lawyers…

6 June 2007

Taxes are not popular. And lawyers are not popular. So why not throw the two together and create the most despicable combination imaginable: tax on legal services? That’s what they’re considering these days in Georgia. House Speaker Glenn Richardson, a Republican from Hiram County, is introducing a bill to collect sales taxes on lawyers. Well, [...]

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