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Article: Tax relief passed by House The sales tax rebate would assist some low-income residents
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- Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
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- March 1, 2006
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By Ilene Olson
rep3@wyomingnews.com
CHEYENNE - One of three remaining bills that would provide utility
or tax relief for state residents passed the House on third reading
Tuesday.
House Bill 55, which would create a sales tax rebate program for
people living on low incomes, was approved on a vote of 47-13. It now
moves on to the Senate.
Sponsor Rodney "Pete" Anderson, R-Pine Bluffs, said the program
would provide sales tax rebates of about $210 each, based on the
average sales tax paid by a family of four. It also would offer
utility tax relief for two years, bringing the maximum total rebate a
family could get to $335 for fiscal years 2007-08.
But Rep. Ann Robinson, D-Casper, said the bill ...