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House advances sales-tax changes including mobile-home levy, vending-machine rate amendment
Summary
The Utah House on Feb. 14 advanced a package of sales-tax changes — including a one-time sales tax on mobile homes, coordination of local-option audits, new rules for containers, and a revised vending-machine rate — adopting amendments and sending several bills to the Senate.
Representative John L. Valentine opened the floor debate with a package of sales-tax measures the governor backed, saying the bills aim to level tax treatment and close exemptions the sponsors judged inequitable. "That sales tax is imposed each time that you sell that house," Valentine said, describing House Bill 187 as taxing the materials portion on the first transaction for manufactured homes. He said the bill would not continue to tax subsequent sales and acknowledged a sizable fiscal note.
Valentine framed HB 241 as a codification of an interim compromise that lets the State Tax Commission settle audits and…
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