From the LVRJ: Senate Majority Leader Mo Denis defended his party’s bill Thursday to levy an 8 percent tax movie tickets at the same time another Democratic bill would give $35 million in tax breaks to companies that make movies in Nevada.
But Denis, D-Las Vegas, admitted there is a possibility that the movie admission tax could be excised from the Nevada Entertainment and Admission Tax bill when it is heard Tuesday in a hearing before the Assembly and Senate taxation committees.
“I don’t know if it ultimately will be in the bill or not,” said Denis in an interview. “If you are going to do good tax policy, you have to put everything in and then figure it out. You aren’t going to start by exempting people out. People who have been hit the hardest (over the five-year recession) aren’t going to movies.”
Yet some newspaper readers and even legislators have ridiculed the idea of taxing Nevadans who attend movies at the same time lawmakers are talking about giving tax breaks to wealthy movie companies. There is a perception that the movie admission tax revenue would pay for movie company tax breaks since the revenue would go to the state general fund and the incentives would come from the same fund.
Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, R-Reno, questioned including movie admissions in Assembly Bill 498 soon after it was introduced Wednesday by Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas. Denis said he and other Senate Democrats had worked on the Kirkpatrick bill.
Gov. Brian Sandoval also came out quickly in opposition to the bill. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-legislature/nevada-senate-majority-leader-defends-bill-enact-movie-ticket-tax
What haven't the Demorats want to tax this legislative secession? Not too much, from what I can gather.
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