Re: Maine broadcasters get tax break

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

Sorry, i can't get the page to load...  Does this
count for large out of state corporations(see clear
channel and cumulus)??


--- Dib9@aol.com wrote:
> The Maine Legislature today overrid the Governor's
> veto of a bill that will 
> allow exemptions from the 5 percent sales tax on
> equipment purchased by Maine 
> broadcasters to produce radio and television
> signals. 
> 
>
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/114/region/Legislature_hurtles_toward_adj:.sht
> 
> ml
> 
> The argument for the exemption is that purchases of
> manufacturing equipment, 
> including newspaper printing presses, are exempt
> from the state sales tax and 
> that television stations are under a mandate to
> convert to HDTV.  On the 
> other hand, most of the businesses that will benefit
> from this tax break are 
> large, public corporations headquartered out of
> state.  The money saved from 
> the tax break will go from Maine state coffers to
> the corporate executives 
> and shareholders.
> 
> I was surprised by the Governor's veto of the bill
> because he became well 
> known in the state from his years as the host of
> MaineWatch on public 
> television.
> 
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine


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