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Senate seeks 'bright-line' fix to car-wash sales-tax ambiguity

Utah State Senate · February 7, 2017
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Summary

Senate sponsors presented Senate Bill 16 to clarify a long-standing ambiguity in sales-tax law related to car washes; the bill would make exterior washes tax-exempt regardless of how performed and make interior/extra services taxable. The sponsor said it simply clarifies existing law; attendance included questions about exemptions and enforcement.

Senate Bill 16, introduced by Senator Bramble, was presented as a technical clarification to resolve Tax Commission confusion about how to apply existing sales-and-use tax exemptions for car washes.

Bramble told colleagues the bill does not create a new exemption but clarifies language in the tax code (cited in floor discussion as sections in the 59-12…

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