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Conferees weigh bundling local sales-tax authority bills amid joint-rule limits; apportionment freeze flagged as higher priority
Summary
Members discussed using an existing conference vehicle to bundle several local sales-tax authority bills but raised a joint-rule limit restricting additions to an underlying bill to four components. Conferees also flagged a proposed freeze on apportionment formulas and a single-factor apportionment bill for further study.
Committee on Taxation conferees discussed whether to use an existing bill as a vehicle to include multiple local sales-tax authority measures and considered consequences of joint rules that limit conference additions.
A House conferee proposed bundling four local sales-tax authority bills into the bill identified in the meeting as 02/1975 (referred to in discussion as a potential vehicle). That conferee said bundling "would be low-hanging fruit" to move local…
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