Comments on: Tax Reform Forum re: L.D. 1495 http://the236diner.com/2009/08/12/tax-reform-forum-re-ld-1495/ Life in South Berwick, Maine Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:44:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: JOHN HAYES http://the236diner.com/2009/08/12/tax-reform-forum-re-ld-1495/comment-page-1/#comment-5102 JOHN HAYES Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:44:22 +0000 http://the236diner.com/?p=1607#comment-5102 LD 1495 is a cleverly worded bill which leads you to believe that it is reducing your annual income taxes (for those who pay income taxes -most will see a decrease which amounts to less then $200 a year). The bill leads you to believe that the savings will be paid for by tourist or out of Staters with the "new expansion" of sales taxes on many items. I'm still trying to figure out how taxing labor will be paid for by tourist (everything from repairing computers to repairing your automobile to dry cleaning, house cleaning.... the list is 2 pages long on new taxes) The vast majority of these "new" taxes will be paid for by Maine tax payers (not tourist). LD 1495 was passed as a 100% democrat supported bill with no support or reaching out to work with the other party. If you want to seek information regarding this new tax bill from the other side of the political party please attend a Town Hall style meeting Saturday August 15 at the Eliot Congregational Church on State Road from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. This meeting is being put on by Republican law makers and the guest speaker will be CPA Albert DiMillo from Portland who has over 30 years of tax experience. He has spent over 150 hours looking at this new tax bill and how it will "really" effect Maine tax payers- it is a shocking difference from what is being sold to us from the people who passed this new tax bill. Please refer to Fosters Daily Democrat, August 13, 2009 issue, page C6 for further information. There is a current petition drive to overturn LD 1495 going on statewide and if enough signatures can be collected this can be placed on a Peoples Referendum Veto Ballot in June of 2010. Petition drives are being done at these local businesses : Autoworks in Kittery, Eliot Small Engine in Eliot, Village Motors in So. Berwick. LD 1495 is a cleverly worded bill which leads you to believe that it is reducing your annual income taxes (for those who pay income taxes -most will see a decrease which amounts to less then $200 a year). The bill leads you to believe that the savings will be paid for by tourist or out of Staters with the “new expansion” of sales taxes on many items. I’m still trying to figure out how taxing labor will be paid for by tourist (everything from repairing computers to repairing your automobile to dry cleaning, house cleaning…. the list is 2 pages long on new taxes) The vast majority of these “new” taxes will be paid for by Maine tax payers (not tourist).

LD 1495 was passed as a 100% democrat supported bill with no support or reaching out to work with the other party. If you want to seek information regarding this new tax bill from the other side of the political party please attend a Town Hall style meeting Saturday August 15 at the Eliot Congregational Church on State Road from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. This meeting is being put on by Republican law makers and the guest speaker will be CPA Albert DiMillo from Portland who has over 30 years of tax experience. He has spent over 150 hours looking at this new tax bill and how it will “really” effect Maine tax payers- it is a shocking difference from what is being sold to us from the people who passed this new tax bill. Please refer to Fosters Daily Democrat, August 13, 2009 issue, page C6 for further information.

There is a current petition drive to overturn LD 1495 going on statewide and if enough signatures can be collected this can be placed on a Peoples Referendum Veto Ballot in June of 2010. Petition drives are being done at these local businesses : Autoworks in Kittery, Eliot Small Engine in Eliot, Village Motors in So. Berwick.

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