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Published - Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Wis. sales tax 'streamlining' would generate millions
MADISON — State revenue officials propose rewriting sales tax rules to generate an additional $46.5 million over the next two years. The Department of Revenue's budget request submitted to Gov. Jim Doyle includes another attempt to enact the so-called ``streamlined sales tax.''
Revenue administrators say it would level the playing field between Wisconsin retailers that have to collect a sales tax and out-of-state Internet and mail order catalog businesses that don't have to collect the tax if they don't have a connection to the state.
Doyle has supported the streamlined sales tax in the past and will decide whether to include it in his own budget request to the Legislature in February.
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