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Article: SFA tackled a variety of issues in 2004.(SNACK FOOD ASSOCIATION: Serving the International Snack Food Industry)
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- Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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When author Denis Waitley said, "expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised;' could he have been thinking about SFA government affairs? Whatever he was thinking, 2004 was full of surprises for the snack food industry in the legislative and regulatory arena. Chief among these was Maryland's 5% tax on snacks that was passed in March by the Maryland Senate with no public hearing and no opportunity to testify or comment on the measure.
State-level snack taxes were left in the dust heap of the 20th century--all four on the books throughout the 1990s were proven to be regressive, arbitrary and confusing. (Maryland's levy was repealed in 1997.) So ...