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Logging contractors ask Senate panel for sales‑tax exemption on log trucks and trailers
Summary
Dana Duran, executive director of the Professional Logging Contractors in the Northeast, told the Senate Appropriations Committee that logging and timber‑trucking support hundreds of jobs in Vermont and urged a sales‑and‑use tax exemption for log trucks and trailers, citing volatile diesel costs and a new regional economic study.
Dana Duran, executive director of the Professional Logging Contractors in the Northeast, told the Vermont Senate Appropriations Committee on April 1 that logging and timber trucking produce measurable economic activity in the state and asked the committee to consider a sales‑and‑use tax exemption for log trucks and trailers.
Duran presented a regional economic impact study his organization published and summarized the Vermont figures: "logging and trucking in Vermont, it's about 140…
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