[FADCA] Fw: Generators, batteries, flashlights tax free in June 2005

[Russell Oder]

You may be interested in the tax free June 1 - 12 for  items including 
batteries, tarps, radios, coolers and even generators worth up to $750.

This will be a good selling feature for those who sell and a incentive for 
those that buy.

At 7.5% for $750.00 that is $56.25.

Russ

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Subject: Fw: Generators, batteries, flashlights tax free in June 2005


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> From today's St Pete Times.  Good info to know for hurricane season...
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> Best regards, Bill
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> For a change, put off hurricane preparation
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> Hold off until June 1-12, and pay no sales tax on certain supplies.
> Lawmakers approve a back-to-school tax break as well.
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> JONI JAMES
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> Published May 5, 2005
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> TALLAHASSEE - Need batteries? You might want to wait a month to buy them.
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> They'll be tax-free the first 12 days of hurricane season.
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> Less than a year after four hurricanes raked Florida shore-to-shore, the
> state Senate on Wednesday sent a bill to Gov. Jeb Bush creating a sales 
> tax
> holiday for certain hurricane supplies June 1-12.
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> The list includes batteries, tarps, radios, coolers and even generators
> worth up to $750. Other supplies, such as plywood, are not covered.
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> "It's never too early to start thinking about the next hurricane season,"
> said Sen. Carey Baker, R-Eustis, bill sponsor.
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> The newfangled break, expected to save Floridians roughly $9.3-million,
> came as state senators also approved the popular sales tax holiday for
> back-to-school clothing, supplies and books for the sixth time since 1998;
> it was skipped in 2002 and 2003. This year the back-to-school break for
> purchases made during the last nine days of July, is expected to save
> shoppers an estimated $52-million.
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> "This is a great thing we sometimes do every year," said Sen. Daniel
> Webster, R-Winter Garden, as he introduced the back-to-school break. 
> "Every
> single person can benefit from this tax break."
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> Both proposals passed unanimously with no debate.
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> The governor said he will sign both bills, part of a $63.5-billion budget
> agreement for 2005-06.
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> "I'm proud of the fact that in seven years we've cut taxes every year,"
> said Bush, who took office in January 1999. "We're probably the only state
> in the country to do that."
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> The two bills mark the broadest - but not biggest - tax relief state
> lawmakers are expected to approve before their scheduled adjournment
> Friday.
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> The biggest tax cut, a compromise agreement that is awaiting final 
> approval
> in both the House and Senate, would affect fewer than 216,000 individuals
> or couples, most of them wealthy, who pay a tax on stocks and bonds.
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> Lawmakers have agreed to cut the rate of the so-called intangibles tax 
> from
> $1 per $1,000 in value to 50 cents, which will cost about $130-million.
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> The change marks the fourth time since Bush took office in 1999 that the
> intangibles tax has been whittled.
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> Under current law, only individuals or businesses that hold at least
> $250,000 in stocks or bonds outside IRAs or 401(k)'s pay the tax; for
> married couples the threshold is $500,000.
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> Because the law requires collection only when the tax bill is more than
> $60, in practice only individual stockholders with a portfolio valued at
> $310,000 pay the tax; among couples, $560,000.
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> State lawmakers also are expected to send the governor an $11.3-million 
> tax
> break for agricultural equipment bought by working farms or ranches. Such
> equipment is taxed at 2.5 percent, less than half the 6 percent state 
> sales
> tax.
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> Other tax cuts include expanding a tax break for businesses that 
> contribute
> to low-cost housing projects, such as Habitat for Humanity, from
> $10-million annually to $12-million; and renewing a sales tax break for
> solar energy equipment, at a cost of about $1.2-million.
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> Times staff writer Carrie Johnson contributed to this report.
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