[FADCA] Fw: Generators, batteries,
flashlights tax free in June 2005
Russell Oder
oderr at bellsouth.net
Fri May 6 22:53:28 EDT 2005
That would be nice. Have to look at the bill.
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> Would that include 2-way radio equipment?
>
> bud
>
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> From: "Russell Oder" <oderr at bellsouth.net>
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> <stmorg at alltel.net>
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 20:39
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> 2005
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>
>> 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Russell G. Oder
>>> District 4, Department of Children and Families
>>> Operations Review Specialist
>>> Contract Management Unit
>>> 5920 Arlington Expressway
>>> Roberts Building - Room 318
>>> Jacksonville, FL 32211
>>> 904-723-2032 SC 841-2032
>>> FAX 904-723-5414 FAX SC 841-5414
>>> email: Russell_Oder at dcf.state.fl.us
>>> ----- Forwarded by Russell Oder/D04/DCF on 05/05/2005 02:29 PM -----
>>>
>>> Bill
>>> Spann/D20/DCF
>>>
>>> To
>>> 05/05/2005 11:26
>>> AM
>>> cc
>>>
>>>
>>> Subject
>>> Generators, batteries, flashlights
>>> tax free in June 2005
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From today's St Pete Times. Good info to know for hurricane season...
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards, Bill
>>>
>>>
>>> ===========================
>>>
>>>
>>> For a change, put off hurricane preparation
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> Published May 5, 2005
>>>
>>>
>>> TALLAHASSEE - Need batteries? You might want to wait a month to buy
>>> them.
>>>
>>>
>>> They'll be tax-free the first 12 days of hurricane season.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> The list includes batteries, tarps, radios, coolers and even generators
>>> worth up to $750. Other supplies, such as plywood, are not covered.
>>>
>>>
>>> "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.
>>>
>>>
>>> The governor said he will sign both bills, part of a $63.5-billion
>>> budget
>>> agreement for 2005-06.
>>>
>>>
>>> "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."
>>>
>>>
>>> The two bills mark the broadest - but not biggest - tax relief state
>>> lawmakers are expected to approve before their scheduled adjournment
>>> Friday.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>> 850-487-1111 w
>>> 850-251-7825 c
>>>
>>>
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