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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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