[FADCA] Fw: Generators, batteries,
flashlights tax free in June 2005
bud thompson
budt at cfl.rr.com
Fri May 6 21:46:13 EDT 2005
Would that include 2-way radio equipment?
bud
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From: "Russell Oder" <oderr at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 20:39
Subject: [FADCA] Fw: Generators, batteries, flashlights tax free in June
2005
> 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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> From: "Russell Oder" <Russell_Oder at dcf.state.fl.us>
> To: <oderr at bellsouth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:29 PM
> Subject: Fw: Generators, batteries, flashlights tax free in June 2005
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>> Russell G. Oder
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>> Bill
>> Spann/D20/DCF
>> To
>> 05/05/2005 11:26
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>> Subject
>> 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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>> ===========================
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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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> "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."
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> The change marks the fourth time since Bush took office in 1999 that the
>> intangibles tax has been whittled.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Times staff writer Carrie Johnson contributed to this report.
>>
>>
>> Bill Spann
>> Chief-of-Staff
>> Florida Department of Children & Families
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