Re: Idaho sales tax exemptions

["Gregory Dickison" <gdickison@moscow.com>]

Tax exemptions are in the state code. You can find them at
http://www3.state.id.us/idstat/TOC/63006KTOC.html

Gregory C. Dickison
Lawyer & Counselor at Law
Post Office Box 8846
312 South Main Street
Moscow, Idaho 83843
(208) 882-4009

----- Original Message -----
From: "bill london" <london@moscow.com>
To: "Vision2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: Idaho sales tax exemptions


> This morning's Lewiston Tribune (Wed. July31, page 5A) includes a story
> about a proposal to raise enough money to fix the state's dilapidated
> school buildings.  The proposal is to cut the state's sales tax from 5%
> to 3% while eliminating the present exemptions to the sales tax.
> Amazing to me that the state could cut the tax rate almost in half and
> still raise more money just by ending the present exemptions.
> It seems like the exemptions must be many and huge.
> What are those exemptions?
> What groups do those exemptions benefit? (farmers? manufacturers?)
> Can someone answer these questions????????
> BL
>