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* Louisiana bill clarifies tax exemption for certain trucks and other bills
Lou,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO,USA) , by Keith Goble -June 25, 2007: -- The Louisiana Senate has approved a bill intended to clarify the sales and use tax exemption for certain trucks and trailers... State law now exempts from sales and use tax trailers and trucks with gross weights of at least 26,000 pounds, as long as they are used at least 80 percent of the time in interstate commerce and are subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Transportation... The Senate voted unanimously to approve a bill that would establish a set of criteria for determining eligibility for tax exemption for a subset of the trucks and trailers covered by the current tax exemption. The bill would apply the new criteria to trucks weighing at least 80,000 pounds... Other bills also making their way through the statehouse include a bill to repeal a tax on household movers and add more state troopers...
* Pennsylvania may limit idling statewide
Pen,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO,USA) , by Keith Goble -June 25, 2007: -- A bill in the Pennsylvania House is intended to reduce unnecessary idling of large trucks throughout in the state. In most instances, drivers idling their trucks while sleeping or resting would be exempt from the rule... Exemptions would include situations when vehicles are stuck in traffic, required by law enforcement to stop or when idling is necessary “to operate defrosters, heaters or refrigeration to prevent a safety or health emergency” that is not part of a rest period...
* A bill in Massachusetts would alter the state’s rules on the idling of all vehicles
Mass,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO,USA) , by Keith Goble -June 25, 2007: -- ... The bill would hold owners and operators of vehicles liable for idling violations. It'ld add exceptions to state law for situations when vehicles are stuck in traffic, required by law enforcement to stop or when idling is necessary to operate defrosters, heaters, air conditioners, or installing other equipment “solely to prevent a safety or health emergency”... Drivers idling their trucks while sleeping or resting also would be exempt from the rule...
* New Missouri law provides tax breaks for certain trucks
Miss,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO,USA) , by Keith Goble -June 26, 2007: -- Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt has signed a bill into law that includes a provision that offers tax breaks for certain trucks. It also modifies rules for household movers... The new law, clarifies the common carrier sales tax exemption for the purchase of motor vehicles, with gross weights of 24,000 pounds or more, or trailers... Missouri law previously applied the exemption only if the common carrier operated solely in interstate commerce. The bill makes the exemption applicable to vehicles and trailers used in both intrastate and interstate commerce...
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