Deb Peters Lobbies for Ad Industry, Helps Torpedo Proposals to Apply Sales Tax to Advertising

Deb Peters Lobbies for Ad Industry, Helps Torpedo Proposals to Apply Sales Tax to Advertising

Proposals T, U, and V discussed at yesterday’s Comprehensive Property Tax Task Force meeting all included removing the sales tax exemption for advertising services, which all three proposers—Speaker Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids), Representative John Hughes (R-13/Sioux Falls), and Senator Taffy Howard (R-34/Rapid City)—said would boost the state budget by $41.3 million. Quick math: these proposals also included raising the state sales tax back to…