Legislature Likely To Look At Sales Tax Bills In Upcoming Session

Bills for the 2012 South Dakota legislative session are being filed with the legislative research council, including two from the interim sales tax exemption committee.  Representative Bernie Hunhoff of Yankton says they took a close look at a large number of sales tax exemptions…

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Hunhoff says doing away with the exemptions would have been a huge tax increase…

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Hunhoff says it looks like some of the exemptions the committee rejected may come up for debate during the session…

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The two bills being introduced would clean up language involved ag uses and precious coins.