maryland sales tax on mowing??

[jeffex]

Oh what fun it is to live in the communist state of Maryland. 5 more years before I can retire and move. Now our Gov. is proposing taxing landscaping services. I have done all I can to call fax and e-mail my reps to "just say no to taxes" . Next year we may become revenue agents for the biggest tax and spender of them all Martin O'malley. want to get involved? its easy http://www.wbal.com/shows/c4/guide.asp This nut wants to turn MD into a sanctuary state for illegal aliens because he believes they will all become democrats. He is willing to tax Legal Qmericans to pay for their free health care and schooling. The realestate agents marched on Annapolis and shut down his plan to tax their services. The property management services and health clubs-gyms complained loudly and he backed off them. If you don't speak up you'll be the one eating it.

[jeffex]

oh I see i've been move to business mgt hell!!! appropriate category but not many looks from the little guy who will be shocked when he /she finds themselves collecting taxes in 08 for the gov

[TLS]

Not a real big deal. Been collecting sales tax for almost 20years here in PA.

Takes 2 minutes a month. All done online.

[jeffex]

but its NEW for us Marylanders. Its not etched in stone yet if we fight it. but we'll probably just roll over and fill next years threads up with whine after whine about it.

[MarcSmith]

lets say they don't tax landscaping services...so that add the tax to some other item like screw drivers?

Basically omally wants to tax the richer folks. heath clubs, and landscaping is by and large luxury items....

[Roger]

This was discussed earlier this week. As TLS says, very little time is required to process the transactions.

Debating the need for tax money is another issue.

http://www.lawnsite.com/showthread.php?t=205439

[jeffex]

I see our posters are not Maryland tax payers!!?? health clubs spoke up and are off the table. In the latest O'malley tax package top earners will get a DECREASE in their piggyback tax from 6.5% to 5.5% while those earning under $150,000 will remain the same. That smells like a tax break for the rich to this simple man. The 20% increase in sales tax is pretty much a done deal but voices have rung out to take their names off the table for the service tax. where is our voice? they have heard mine but i'm just one little fish. A lot of little fish make a school of fish. what did you maryland lcos do about it just click on the link and follow up. I bet this will take less time than paying your sales taxes in 08 online. step up !!!!!

[MarcSmith]

working in Dc and living in VA..as if I don't pay enough taxes...give me a break.... They are not asking you to pay any taxes. only assist with the collection. being that landscape companies are using fuel and in some case their waste goes into the landfills needlessly, why not tax your customers on it?. Don't you already tax your customers when they purchase plants from you...no probably not, you buy them and pay the nursery the sales tax so you don't have to deal with it like every other business man...maybe they are using as a way to help eliminate the shady business people, the ones who dodge payroll taxes, and income taxes as well...Just one more level of enforcement...

[jeffex]

man i've never seen someone that eager to roll over on a new tax! wait until md lcos try and get their profit increase as well as inform their customers about the new sales tax. I can just see all the posts on LS about it

[TLS]

jeffex,

Take no offense, but I think your making a mountain out of a mole hill here.

It is a great way to show potential and current customers that you ARE legit. I get new customers from time to time and they say...."Tom, I was never charged sales tax by XYZ & Sons Mowing, why are you charging me?" "Well Mrs. Jones, they were required to do the same thing, seeing as they weren't, they likely weren't paying taxes either."

It really isn't a big issue. I remember switching over. This was all pre-computer. It WAS a hassle back then. Now with the computer, it's just a few keystrokes a month.

[MarcSmith]

man i've never seen someone that eager to roll over on a new tax! wait until md lcos try and get their profit increase as well as inform their customers about the new sales tax. I can just see all the posts on LS about it

you just said the they gave the rich folks a tax break so they are offsetting one tax with another...not really a tax increase. its a wash....

Like death, taxes are a guaranteed thing. not amount of btching or griping will make it go away. government is like a business you raise your rates yearly as employees make more money, insurance goes up, fuel goes up, taxes in turn must also go up to pay for the business of government.

Yeah new taxes suck I'm not going to argue that...but if they charge tax on labor in other industries in MD, why should landscaping be special?

[Runner]

We're going through the same thing in Michigan. They are bringing on a 6% service tax on services - out of nowhere. This same thing lasted 1 month in Fla.. They are already so far in to the repeal process here in MI. that it looks like it will be eliminated befor it ever even takes effect. It was supposed to start Dc.1 and has now been pushed back to Dec. 20.

[thomsoutdoor]

There is a little more then the Tax on services. This new Maryland Governor is Tax and spend happy. We have a balance budget and yet with all the new programs he is introducing we now have a projected deficient. Even people that voted for the bum are getting upset. Comes out that he not just taxing the rich its the hard working middle class that is getting screwed. He hasn't been in office a year yet and he has Maryland's largest tax increase in MD history and maybe the largest one in the nation. So they say. Keep an eye on O'malley becuase some say he will be running for President in 2012.

[jeffex]

jeffex,

Take no offense, but I think your making a mountain out of a mole hill here.

It is a great way to show potential and current customers that you ARE legit. I get new customers from time to time and they say...."Tom, I was never charged sales tax by XYZ & Sons Mowing, why are you charging me?" "Well Mrs. Jones, they were required to do the same thing, seeing as they weren't, they likely weren't paying taxes either."

It really isn't a big issue. I remember switching over. This was all pre-computer. It WAS a hassle back then. Now with the computer, it's just a few keystrokes a month.

take no offence but thats the biggest load of crap I've ever read . what makes me LEGIT besides the fact that I pay taxes , have insurance blah blah blah but what makes me legit is I have been in business 16 years with many of the same customers. YOur in another state wtf is it misery loves company ? you want me to collect sales taxes because you have to ? how does collecting taxes for a spend happy gov. make me legit????????

[thomsoutdoor]

I have to go along with "jeffex" on this one. I show the customers that I have insurance and I am license for pesticides and have been in been in business for over 17 years, which is part of the reason I may cost more. Now because I am legit I have to charge you another 6 percent. On top of that do to the increase gas tax , a long with other taxes I am going to have to raise my price even more. Commercial customers are one thing but residential customers can only take so much.

[jeffex]

I should just use my same ss # and change my name to juan tomas and take advantage of Martin O'megos sanctuary state give aways and get some of my tax money back. Free health care, lower in state school costs, $3,000 towards the purchase of a house in B-more, and free public schools. Hey why not tax illegal aliens so they can pay for their own stuff. lets parade our truck and trailers next thurs. down to Annapolis and let O'mego O'malley know we don't want this new tax

[MarcSmith]

$3,000 towards the purchase of a house in B-more,
yeah thats a good reason....I sooner live in north east DC before I set up a house in bit-more...

[jeffex]

oh I wouldn't live there ,I would rent it out to illegals!!!

[MarcSmith]

oh I wouldn't live there ,I would rent it out to illegals!!!...well there goes the coffee on the keyboard....:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[TLS]

Hey, don't get all bent out of shape...

Your obviously more fixated on the reason for the tax.

I'm simply stating that the actual work involved WHEN this gets passed is rather minute.


I'm not saying I need a tax to justify my legitimacy, just that still to this day, several decades later, not all LCO's are legit enough to charge it.

[jeffex]

one article from the Sunpapers today says
"yesterday afternoon , landscapers' trucks briefly circled the state house in an impromptu protest before they were chased off by the state police. Last night ,the senate removed landscaping services from the tax bill "
now another article in the same edition states that gardening services may still be on the table but snow plowing is off. Whatever the final outcome is its good to see some in this industry stand up and fight. If you were there put your ear to the computer and listen for my rowsing applause!!!!!:clapping: thank you

[jeffex]

update- as of now no services will get sales tax added to them. However ,we will have to eat a 20% increase in the sales tax rate from %5 to %6 . this was pretty much expected. Again , glad to see Marylanders step up and fight rather than rolling over on this Gov. intent on taxing our citizens out of MD. Just like he taxed people out of B- more city as mayor.