The Legislature’s joint interim committee on tax exemptions isn’t going to take back the votes it took yesterday calling for repeal of one of Idaho’s biggest tax breaks – the Investment Tax Credit – along with other special breaks for ski areas, broadcasters and publishers. At the end of a long day’s work this afternoon, the committee had compiled a new list of top priorities for review – all the exemptions and breaks that the joint panel wants the Legislature to review next year – plus a list of criteria by which those breaks should be judged. The four tax breaks that they’d already called for repealing figure prominently in that list. But when Sen. Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, asked the panel if it now wanted to take back the earlier votes and just go with the recommendation for review, the lawmakers declined. “I don’t think these are conflicting,” said Sen. Tim Corder, R-Mountain Home. “That fits well within what we’ve just done”/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise.
Question: Do you support a complete review of the dozens of current sales tax exemptions, with the possibility that some would end?
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
repeal of one of Idaho’s biggest tax breaks – the Investment Tax Credit – along with other special breaks for ski areas, broadcasters and publishers. At the end of a long day’s work this afternoon, the committee had compiled a new list of top priorities for review – all the exemptions and breaks that the joint panel wants the Legislature to review next year – plus a list of criteria by which those breaks should be judged. The four tax breaks that they’d already called for repealing figure prominently in that list. But when Sen. Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, asked the panel if it now wanted to take back the earlier votes and just go with the recommendation for review, the lawmakers declined. “I don’t think these are conflicting,” said Sen. Tim Corder, R-Mountain Home. “That fits well within what we’ve just done”/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise.
