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Lawmakers consider narrowing exemptions, clarifying sales tax for landscaping services
Summary
Sen. Klein's Senate File 297 would remove some detachable‑parts exemptions and clarify that land‑clearing services are non‑taxable to reduce confusion for landscaping businesses; witnesses said the change would simplify compliance for small firms and the committee laid the bill over.
Senator Klein brought Senate File 297 to the Tax Committee seeking to resolve long‑standing confusion in the nursery and landscape sector over when sales tax applies to detachable equipment parts and to clarify the tax treatment of land‑clearing services.
"This bill came forward from the landscaping industry itself to simplify their tax exemptions," Klein said. Section 1 would treat detachable…
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