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Nevada ballot 2018: Question 2;Make tampons and pads tax exempt
medium.com ^ | Nov 2, 2018 | Jillian Austin

Posted on 11/02/2018 9:01:32 AM PDT by 11th_VA

Nevada sales tax is avg 6.85%. Medical items are exempt, except feminine hygiene products needed monthly (tampons and pads) by 49.5% of population in Nevada. This would make the items tax exempt saving women money every month.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: dopeydems; tampons
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Lots of states are moving to gross receipts taxes. It allows them to force nexus on corporations by avoiding the protection that Public Law 86-272 provides because that law applies only to “income tax”.

Ohio was among the first to do this. They repealed their income tax and enacted the “CAT” - commercial activity tax. It’s a gross receipts tax.

The idea is that the rate is lower (versus income tax) but you greatly broaden the tax base by pulling in taxpayers that previously were exempted from the income tax thanks to PL 86-272.

The problem is, even if a taxpayer is losing money, i.e. if they have no profit, they are still liable for the tax because it’s based on gross revenue not income.


41 posted on 11/02/2018 9:52:25 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Stormdog

And he wants SINGLE PAYER health insurance.

And—Yes—He is a PIG.


42 posted on 11/02/2018 9:52:59 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: TangledUpInBlue
The problem is, even if a taxpayer is losing money, i.e. if they have no profit, they are still liable for the tax because it’s based on gross revenue not income.

That's why I said it was insane.

43 posted on 11/02/2018 9:54:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Such a feature would really be harmful to the smallest of businesses who are struggling. But I believe the first $250,000 of receipts each year are exempt. After that, the tax kicks in. So there is some protection.


44 posted on 11/02/2018 9:58:00 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: 11th_VA

:: feminine hygiene products needed monthly (tampons and pads) by 49.5% of population in Nevada ::

That percentage makes this “fakery”.


45 posted on 11/02/2018 9:59:33 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

That’s good. Usually the write laws to destroy small businesses, like minimum wage laws.


46 posted on 11/02/2018 10:01:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: SharpRightTurn
“Nevada sales tax is avg 6.85%. Medical items are exempt, except feminine hygiene products needed monthly (tampons and pads”. Even if the tampons are to be used as earrings?

In Pennsylvania clothing is tax exempt. Sewing thread is taxable. Unless you tell the clerk that you are going to use it to make clothing, in which case it is tax-exempt.

I did not make that up. Nor did I steal it from a Monty Python skit.


47 posted on 11/02/2018 10:22:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 11th_VA

it’s a stupid platform plank, but let’s be honest, guys. Women cannot opt out of having ‘that time of month’. And the days are gone when women were expected to use rags, just as the days are gone when women were expected to use cloth diapers for babies and adult incontinents (seen a diaper service truck lately?).

Remove the tax from tampons, pads, diapers (baby and adult) and toilet paper. It’s not ww2 and we’re not rationing paper products any more. Make up the tax on paper plates or red solo cups if you will, but we need to be sensible about personal hygiene products.


48 posted on 11/02/2018 10:33:05 AM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: 11th_VA

In the meantime, California will be banning tampons.

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/women/plastic-waste-reusable-tampons/


49 posted on 11/02/2018 11:10:51 AM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Utilities are certainly necessary. Why aren’t they tax exempt?


50 posted on 11/02/2018 11:32:22 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: oldtech

Well now you’re just getting technical :)

First, I could argue that they are not necessary. You can find water in a well without power and you can burn wood for a fire.

That said, most states levy taxes on utilities differently from state wide sales tax. In other words, they are utility related taxes that are usually excise in nature. It’s somewhat semantics.


51 posted on 11/02/2018 11:36:47 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Nevada has no personal income tax or corporate income tax., so you were right. But you know politicians. They have to find something they can tax.


52 posted on 11/02/2018 11:43:06 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: 11th_VA
needed monthly (tampons and pads) by 49.5% of population in Nevada

How do they figure 49.5%? Do ALL females need them?

53 posted on 11/02/2018 12:25:19 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I see what you did there.

You "spotted" it.

Hard to miss.

54 posted on 11/02/2018 1:41:53 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: Pearls Before Swine

How about on diapers too? Even old people need diapers.


55 posted on 11/02/2018 3:25:08 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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