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Legislative Alert - TAX ON SERVICES

Delegates Sheila Hixson and Jim Gilchrist have introduced a bill that would apply the state's sales tax to more than 40 kinds of services.

Maryland House Bill 1051 is before the state legislature, which will impose a sales tax on certain business services. The list is long and may get longer (SEE BELOW). The cost of purchasing services will increase 6 percent overnight — How will this tax impact your business and your personal finances? If your business provides or you use one of the proposed taxable services, it is very important for you to tell your story. Please contact your state reps and let them know that you strongly oppose this tax on service.

PROPOSED LIST OF TAXABLE SERVICES

  • Fabrication, printing or production of tangible personal property by special order
  • Commercial cleaning or laundering of textiles for a buyer who is engaged in a business that requires the recurring service of commercial cleaning or laundering of the textiles
  • Cleaning of a commercial or industrial building
  • Cellular telephone or other mobile telecommunications
  • “900”, “976”, “915”, and other “900”–type telecommunications
  • Custom calling service provided in connection with basic telephone
  • Telephone answering
  • Cable television, including pay-per-view television
  • Credit reporting
  • Security
  • Transportation service for transmission, distribution, or delivery of electricity or natural gas
  • Prepaid telephone calling arrangement
  • Motor vehicle maintenance or repair
  • Parking facility or service
  • Barber/beauty
  • Tanning, massage or physical fitness facility
  • Docking or landing
  • Shoe repair
  • Tax preparation
  • Sauna or steam bath facility
  • Weighing machine service
  • Public locker rental
  • Dating/escort services
  • Dieting service
  • Direct mail advertising
  • Commercial photography/art
  • Stenography
  • Exterminators
  • Personnel supply, including temps and employment agencies
  • Management, management consulting, public relations or any other business consulting
  • Property management
  • Testing laboratory
  • Sign painting
  • Interior decorating
  • Auctioneering
  • Business brokerage
  • Drafting
  • Independent lecture bureau
  • Printing brokerage
  • Shop window decorating

State Senators and Delegates for Gaithersburg-Germantown:

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DISTRICT 15

Rob

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Garagiola

Senator

Miller

Delegate

aruna.miller@house.state.md.us

Brian

Feldman

Delegate

brian.feldman@house.state.md.us

Kathleen

Dumais

Delegate

kathleen.dumais@house.state.md.us

DISTRICT 39

Nancy

King

Senator

Kirill

Reznik

Delegate

kirill.reznik@house.state.md.us

Shane

Robinson

Delegate

shane.robinson@house.state.md.us

DISTRICT 17

Jennie

Forehand

Senator 

jennie.forehand@senate.state.md.us

Jim

Gilchrist

Delegate

jim.gilchrist@house.state.md.us

Kumar

Barve

Delegate

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