Sen. Middleton tries sales tax reduction for a week gimick

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Posted by Phil Lee (216.250.238.39) on June 27, 2001 at 00:06:

• Senator Thomas Middleton is introducing legislation aimed at eliminating the 5% sales tax on shoes and items of clothing costing less than a hundred dollars during one week in August. A version of this legislation passed the House last year, but died in a Senate committee. The chairman of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, Barbara Hoffman, is still cool to the idea. It would cost about $6.4 million dollars in lost revenue and that says Hoffman, is money that could pay, for example, a lot of drug treatment in Baltimore City, but the bill continues to pick up support. The State's Chief Tax Collector, Comptroller William Donald Schaefer, is among it's backers.

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: • Senator Thomas Middleton is introducing legislation aimed at eliminating the 5% sales tax on shoes and items of clothing costing less than a hundred dollars during one week in August. A version of this legislation passed the House last year, but died in a Senate committee. The chairman of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, Barbara Hoffman, is still cool to the idea. It would cost about $6.4 million dollars in lost revenue and that says Hoffman, is money that could pay, for example, a lot of drug treatment in Baltimore City, but the bill continues to pick up support. The State's Chief Tax Collector, Comptroller William Donald Schaefer, is among it's backers.

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