Show 10B The Salt Lake Tribage December Sunday 13 1387 Governors Want to Tax the estimates are cited as California ($373 million) Texas ($1809 million) New York ($1783 million) Pennsylvania ($1278 million) and Illinois ($1217 million) The smallest revenue loss is projected for Wyoming ($279 million) Vermont ($42 million) North Dakota ($607 million) South Dakota ($611 million) and Idaho ($943 million) By Virginia Robicneaux Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The National Governors Association has urged Congress to “close the giant loophole” through which Utah and other states may be losing as much as $2 billion a year in lieu of ability to collect taxes on sales of mail-ordgoods According to new NGA estimates from the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations if a 1967 Supreme Court ruling severely restricting the ability of states to collect these taxes is not legislatively offset by Congress Utah will lose $1623 million in revenue in 1988 contrasted to $1384 million in 1986 and $1223 million in 1985 No estimate was given for 1987 Nationwide the estimated revenue sales loss from untaxed mail-orde- r for 1988 is $1438 billion contrasted to $2 079 billion in 1986 and $1892 billion in 1985 And ACIR noted next year’s projection as "probably on the low based on conservative esti- side mates of an annual 9 percent growth - in mail-ord- In supporting legislation sponsored and by Rep Howard Nielson others that would close the “loophole” by permitting large mail-ordcompanies to collect the tax at the time of the sale NGA said none of the pending bills would impose a new tax but simply give states authority to collect taxes already owed to them NGA — which has a working group on the issue — also noted that pending legislation would exempt over 95 firms from percent of all mail-ordcollecting the tax at time of sale — but cover 80 percent of all sales Under the bills in committee in both the House and Senate a single tax rate would be required with remittance mandated no more than quarterly er er sales” The biggest losers next year under vcr SAEJ Sales Mail-Ord- er Specifically under NGA policy Congress has been urged to require mail-ordfirms to collect the tax of the state where the purchaser lives if the company advertises ic the destination state and if its annual sales exceed $125 million — or $500000 in the destination state If the national minimum is $125 million or more less than 5 percent of all mail-ordfirms would have to collect the taxes since most merchandise is ordered through a few big suppliers NGA pointed out New Jersey Gov Thomas H Kean whose state next year stands to lose an estimated $1071 million in state taxes on mail-orde- r sales has expressed concern that the new ACIR statistics “show an even greater inequity than had been previously forecast Clearly this is a growing loss for states and will continue to be so unless Congress moves the issue to the forefront of its agenda and passes corrective legislation rather than letting it languish in committee” er er CLASSIFIED WANT-AD- 237-200- Panasonic 03 Jvcstereo Hi-- Fi 2 head 100 channel 4 head 5 level HQ AKAI Digital Hi-- Fi 4 head quick start index Panasonic Super Hi Res Bar code Factory Hi-- Fi §79 799 999 Panasonic 4 head slow motion 249 299 authorizd safes and service 36 years experience Ur 486-575- 180 E 7 21STS0i2 0 A “Your home is where OUR heart is V The 23 real estate agents who f work for me love what they do for a living All of us have been helping people like you buy and sell homes for a long time and our customers keep coming back to us over and over again Isn't it time you found out the secrets of our success? 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