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Committee approves sales-tax exemptions for certain medical devices; clarifying amendment added for salvage-vehicle recycling
Summary
The committee voted to advance House Bill 653, which expands sales-tax exemptions for certain durable medical equipment and related accessories and includes a clarifying amendment about tax treatment of inoperable vehicles during the recycling process.
A House committee recommended House Bill 653 do pass, approving a house committee substitute and a clarifying amendment that broadened the bill’s title to “sales tax exemptions” and added language clarifying how sales tax applies during salvage and recycling processes.
The bill’s sponsors and the chairman said HB653 targets durable medical equipment and accessories that were not included in earlier definitions dating to 1980. The chairman said the change would exempt items such as certain portable medical…
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