Little Talk Of Sales Tax Holiday This Summer

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Gee... tax free NH is only a 20 minute drive for me (30 minutes with traffic :smoke:). Shopping online is only a few (sometimes painful), mouse clicks away.

So... why not (even if just for a few days), provide some incentive for MA residents to actually spend their $$$ here?

The tax revenue might fall short, but... I'll bet the merchants in this state aren't very happy with this decision.

Screw'em... I'll take my money elsewhere.

BOSTON -- A sales tax holiday doesn't appear to be in the cards this year for Massachusetts shoppers.

For the past three years, the state has suspended the five percent sales tax in August -- for one day in 2004, and for a weekend in 2005 and 2006.

State Rep. Daniel Bosley of North Adams -- who chairs the Legislature's economic development committee -- said he hasn't heard much talk about a tax holiday on Beacon Hill. Bosley told the Republican newspaper of Springfield that he would consider the chances of it happening this summer to be "slim."

Massachusetts retailers see the tax holiday as a way to jump-start business during a traditionally slow period of the season.

But critics said it also comes at a cost of about $15 million in tax revenue to the state.

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