sales tax

Lawmakers in Idaho are looking at legislation that would remove sale tax on custom meat processing in specific cases. Reporter Riley Haun said the legislation, House Bill 496, would exempt meat processing from sale tax when the carcass is for their own personal consumption ...

Washington state Senator John McCoy raised the ire of many in the farm industry last year when he claimed that farmers don’t pay taxes, but is that true?   A Recent Study conducted by the Washington Policy Center found that statement to be false, noting that farmers and ranchers pay a variety of taxes, including B&O tax, self-employment taxes, and state and federal payroll taxes.  WPC noted Wa

The American Farm Bureau Federation filed a friend of the court brief last week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case against online retailers who don’t collect sales taxes.   The state of South Dakota is filing suit versus Wayfair, Overstock and NewEgg over their failures to collect the sales taxes for online purchases.   I...