From Deseret News archives:
Guv's tax plan gutted
House members refuse to kill business income levy
But in refusing to repeal the business income tax which would cost public schools at least $200 million by 2012 representatives join a majority of Utahns who don't want the tax phased out, a new Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV poll shows.
The Dan Jones & Associates survey shows that 62 percent of Utahns don't want the tax phased out; 25 percent support the repeal, while 13 percent don't know.
Debate on HB78 was halted Monday after Rep. James Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville, substituted Rep. Wayne Harper's original measure. Dunnigan's replacement still gives Utah businesses two ways to figure their corporate income tax, thus saving many a bit of extra cash. But Dunnigan stripped the bill of Huntsman's main goal: a phaseout of the corporate income taxes starting in two years, with complete repeal by 2012.
Neil Ashdown, Huntsman's deputy chief of staff, said after the vote that the governor, a Republican like most legislators, will try to get the House to reverse itself or get the Senate to put the corporate tax repeal back in HB78.
Dunnigan was joined in stripping out the tax repeal by a handful of fellow GOP legislators and House Democrats, his amendment passing 39-29 with seven absent. The close vote means GOP leaders would only have to turn around a few Republicans to push Harper's bill back into a major tax-cut measure.
But it may be more difficult to convince Utahns in general that not making businesses pay money into the public education system is a smart move.
Jones found universal dislike of Huntsman's repeal. Even groups that one might guess would side with the governor don't.
Fifty-seven percent of Republicans oppose repeal; 65 percent of college graduates (who may own some Utah businesses) oppose repeal; and 63 percent of those making more than $55,000 a year (who may also own some businesses) oppose repealing the tax.
Told of the poll results, Huntsman said: "People fail to realize that consumers end up carrying the burden of the corporate income tax. The tax cannot be seen as stand alone, but rather, part of a broader attempt to refine the tax code, which has not been revised since the 1950s."
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