GOP group backs new state tax on business receipts

[Township75]

Plan aims to drop state sales tax, eliminate school property taxes
Wednesday, June 23, 2004

By Tom Barnes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette



HARRISBURG -- A coalition of conservative lawmakers is proposing an ambitious tax shifting plan that it claims would allow the state to do away with the 6 percent sales tax and eliminate school property taxes statewide.

The group of Republican legislators, called the Commonwealth Caucus, yesterday called for replacing those levies with a new business receipts tax.

The caucus chairman, state Rep. Samuel Rohrer, R-Berks, called the plan "Pennsylvania's 4.5 percent solution."

It would place a 4.5 percent tax on the annual gross revenues of every business in the state -- those producing goods as well as those providing services.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04175/336270.stm

[rfranklin]

1. So, they are going to hide taxes where people won't see them...

The price of everything will go up...but, gee, we aren't paying any sales tax! Wow, what geniuses!

[windlight]

2. For what i see

Is that is equates to a 4.5% sales tax on EVERYTHING, from lawyer fees to the auto mechanic to food and clothing. That is how it works in Wyoming when i lived there.. they had no income tax though and only other personal taxes was property taxes.(on house and car.) I guess i would like to hold judgment till i see or read the whole proposal. I do blame the leg on raising income taxes without lowering property tax, #$%^ A#@&*$#@...