MORE TAXES – previously untaxed services are now being considered as another way to find money for the state.
Well, you hear it on the news everyday, more taxes, more taxes, more taxes! Here they go again, the next attempt for Arizona is to raise taxes on just about everything else.
That’s right, below I copied the proposed changes, which will include taxing Services, including personal care services – haircuts, pet grooming, household maintenance, including pool cleaning, carpet cleaning, painting, roofing, plumbing, water softening, air conditioning and that right you guessed it, even PEST CONTROL services will be taxed if our legislators get their way. What they don’t realize is that it’s not just the taxes on the services, but the work involved in collecting, accounting for and reporting the sales tax – that takes time and time is money – more cost to be past on to customers, including the new taxes!
We all need to contact our State Representatives and Senators to protest the constant additions of more taxes. JUST SAY “NO MORE TAXES” Please!
It’s hard enough for our customers to maintain essential services to protect their homes and properties in the current economics of Arizona living, yet our legislators in all their wisdom continue to lean harder and harder on small business and their customers. WE LOVE OUR CUSTOMERS - and we are fighting this proposed legislation, won’t you please help!
As a service business, we already pay sales taxes on the materials we utilize in the performance of our services, and yet we are expected to turn around and start charging our customers an additional sales tax. As an owner, I have worked extremly hard to control my expenses in order to maintain fair and consistent pricing for my pest, termite and weed control customers, and I expect my State of Arizona to work a little harder at controlling it’s expenses – instead of raising more taxes!!!
Sec. 10. Title 42, chapter 5, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 42-5077, to read:
START_STATUTE42-5077. Services classification
A. The services classification includes the following businesses, not otherwise classified for taxation under this article:
1. Personal care services, including beauty and nail salons, barber and pet grooming shops.
2. Education, including proprietary technical and trade schools, dance schools and studios and examination preparation seminars and classes.
3. Automotive services, including lubrication and repair, painting, tire repair, washing, detailing and UPHOLSTERY repair.
4. Household maintenance, including roofing, painting, cleaning and maid service, carpet and UPHOLSTERY care, pest control, fumigation, janitorial services, pool and spa cleaning, conditioning and maintenance SERVICES, window cleaning, household electrical and plumbing and water softening and conditioning SERVICES.
B. The tax base for the services classification is the gross proceeds of sales or gross income derived from the business.