Pre-Tax Sale in Connecticut

ATR ^ | 2011-06-28 | Nathan Lichtman

[92nina]

...Businesses know this will chase consumers from their stores. Shop-owners are worried that their customers will either go to other states to purchase their goods or services (not hard to do in that region), or they will simply cut back spending. Some stores are using discounts or sales to attract customers in advance of the higher levy’s implementation. One yoga instructor, Justine Fuller of Hartford, is having a “Keep your Money from Uncle Sam Sale,” offering 10-percent off if you buy classes for over six months. Porsche of Fairfield is offering a 7.35-percent discount on new cars before the tax increase. Other companies are simply using marketing tools to alert their customers about the tax increases. Source Clothing Co., of Cheshire, has been updating their Facebook and Twitter accounts with a daily countdown till the tax takes effect. They end every Twitter update with “Thanks @govmalloyoffice.” Midge Becker, the owner of Best Dressed Kids, a children’s consignment store in Bloomfield, says: “I'm appalled…The people who shop in stores like mine do so because they need to save wherever they can. To put more of a tax burden on them is ridiculous."

Connecticut residents already have the dubious distinction of having the costliest state government in the nation. Unfortunatly, on Friday it’s going to get a little worse. I would suggest grabbing a drink to forget about it but on Friday the alcohol tax will skyrocket by 20-percent.

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: Would you buy something in the next few days before the tax increase takes effect? If so, what would you purchase?

Read more: http://www.atr.org/pre-tax-sale-connecticut-a6295#ixzz1QhCW6ebx

[92nina]

Friday, the largest tax increase in Connecticut’s history will begin going into effect. Businesses are trying desperately to keep Connecticut's economy alive.

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[Celerity]

As I understand it, it’s going from 6% to 6 5/8%. This is a great way to stick it to the business owner.

Are the numbers different than this ? I dunno. I really don’t buy things.

[Malone LaVeigh]

6 5/8%? Cry me a river. It’s 8.75% here and if you go into town it’s 9.25%.

[apillar]

When West Virginia slapped a 6% tax on food, I started driving across the border to Ohio, where there was no food tax. I couldn't even guess how much West Virginia has lost from me since the 1990’s when it went into effect, I figure at $500 a month or $6,000 a year, I am saving $360 a year and the state is losing 6k in sales. I must not have been the only one, they recently reduced the rate to 3%, so with the higher gas prices it is almost worth it for me to stay in state.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

To put more of a tax burden on them is ridiculous.

To vote exclusively for Democrats and then whine about tax increases is even more ridiculous. You get what you vote for, Connecticut.

[Dr. Thorne]

Cry ME a river. No one is forcing you to live in Louisiana, so don’t whine.

[Malone LaVeigh]

I wasn't the one whining. Just pointing out that there's always someone worse off than yourself.

[ExCTCitizen]

This is why my handle is EXCTCitizen, in 1992 Gov. Wacky (L. P. Weicker) passed an income tax and thousands showed up at Bushnell Park to protest. Did it do any good? No, we elected the same LIBERALS - and RINOs - who gave us TAX AND SPEND!!

Now Malloy is trying to OBAMAIZE Connecticut and the Dems are going to ruin CT. I'm glad I'm in Florida!!!