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Senate approves limited textbook sales-tax exemption aimed at few off-campus bookstores
Summary
Senate Bill 69 would extend a sales-tax exemption for college textbooks to qualifying off-campus, for‑profit bookstores that meet a 51% textbook inventory threshold; sponsor framed the change as preserving three small businesses while critics raised fiscal-note concerns. The Senate passed the bill.
Senate Bill 69, sponsored by Senator Maine, passed the Utah Senate after a debate over whether a sales-tax exemption intended for university bookstores should extend to a small number of off‑campus, for‑profit stores.
Maine told senators the measure aims to restore an equal playing field for three off-campus bookstores that she said were left vulnerable after a 2008 tax…
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