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Alaska mulls winter, summer sales tax rate
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| 5/9/3
Posted on 05/09/2003 9:51:56 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
JUNEAU, Alaska, May 9 (UPI) -- Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski has come out in support of a unique sales tax that would go up during the summer and then drop during the long winter. The proposed tax would be 2 percent during the winter and 4 percent during the summer tourist season.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: tax
To: NativeNewYorker
Is this the same state that pays its residents proceeds from its oil sales?
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posted on
05/09/2003 9:53:19 AM PDT
by
inquest
To: inquest
Yes it is ... why they are looking at sales tax is bizarre ...
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posted on
05/09/2003 9:53:56 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
To: NativeNewYorker
Why not just require tourists to hand over a couple hundred bucks a head when they get off the plane?
To: NativeNewYorker
Setting up a tax to nail non-residents is taxation without representation. How quickly they forget the foundations of this country.
To: inquest
All the car and appliance dealers might as well just shut down for the summer, as everyone will wait to buy during the lower tax season.
To: Centurion2000
Why not a national VAT/sales tax of 1% from Labor Day to Christmas to "capture" the peak shopping season?
Equally insane.
To: Random Access
"Setting up a tax to nail non-residents is taxation without representation." Unfortunately, it's legal. See "Hotel Tax." Every hotel in the country collects hotel taxes which benefit the local communities, paid by non-residents. So do rental-car agencies. Taxing tourists isn't a new idea by ANY stretch of the imagination.
Michael
To: Random Access
Well it is a tad different... you don't have to pay the tax, you choose to visit the state. Citizens of the colonies had no choice.... wasn't like they could move to utah...
To: Wright is right!
If you stay 30 consecutive days in San Diego, the hotel tax is fully refunded to you. They call it a Transient Occupancy Tax. You're not considered a "transient" if you have stayed 30 consecutive days.
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posted on
05/09/2003 10:11:50 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Random Access
Setting up a tax to nail non-residents is taxation without representation
Not really .... we have had something similar at the county level in Texas. Ever had to pay 3.00 to be a "club member" to get a beer in a dry county ? It's the same setup.
If they specifically wanted to nail travellers, they can make an airport "landing tax" for all inbound flights with an exemption for Alaska residents.
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posted on
05/09/2003 10:13:34 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
To: Myrddin
"If you stay 30 consecutive days in San Diego, the hotel tax is fully refunded to you. They call it a Transient Occupancy Tax. You're not considered a "transient" if you have stayed 30 consecutive days." Wow. Didn't know that. And i used to live there...
Michael
To: Random Access
Setting up a tax to nail non-residents is taxation without representation. How quickly they forget the foundations of this country.No one is forcing tourists to visit Alaska.
To: Random Access
Tea anyone
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posted on
05/09/2003 11:51:03 AM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody got a peanut.....)
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