Senate Bill sb0336

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                       SM 336

    By Senator Constantine





    22-151-04

  1                     Senate Memorial No. ____

  2         A memorial to the Congress of the United

  3         States, urging Congress to enact H.R. 720, the

  4         Sales Tax Equity Act of 2003.

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  6         WHEREAS, a personal-income tax penalizes hard work,

  7  savings, investment, and job growth, unlike a consumption tax,

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  9         WHEREAS, 42 states impose a state income tax, some of

10  which are quite onerous and prompt many residents of those

11  state to flee to the State of Florida, which is one of 8

12  states that do not impose such a tax, and

13         WHEREAS, the tax laws of the Federal Government

14  currently allow a taxpayer to deduct from his or her federal

15  tax liability the amount paid in state income taxes, but those

16  laws do not allow Floridians to deduct any of the sales taxes

17  that they have paid, and

18         WHEREAS, restoring needed fairness in the deductibility

19  of state taxes by allowing a fair share of sales taxes to be

20  deducted from the federal tax liability would relieve stress

21  on the family budgets of the people of Florida, NOW,

22  THEREFORE,

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24  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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26         That the Congress of the United States is requested to

27  enact H.R. 720, the Sales Tax Equity Act of 2003, which would

28  provide a sales-tax deduction for federal taxpayers who reside

29  in states that do not impose a state income tax.

30         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

31  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                       SM 336
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