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Wyoming staff propose combining sales and use tax statutes for clarity; committee asks LSO to draft
Summary
Legislative Service Office and Department of Revenue staff told the Revenue Committee that combining Title 15 (sales tax) and Title 16 (use tax) into a single statutory chapter would mostly be editorial and administrative; the committee asked LSO and Revenue to prepare draft language and follow up.
The Legislative Service Office and the Wyoming Department of Revenue presented the idea of combining the state's sales tax and use tax statutes into a single chapter, saying most provisions are already identical and a single chapter would reduce future drafting errors. "The sales tax is in title 15 of our statutes, and the use tax is in title 16," LSO analyst Josh Anderson told the committee. "The vast majority of the provisions ... are identical." Department of Revenue Director Brett Fanning said the change would be largely organizational rather than policy-making. "This bill is gonna be a long bill. But at the…
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