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TAX POLICY * USA - Want fries with that? States charge drive-through income tax for trucks
Increasingly, states such as Nebraska and New Mexico are aggressively digging for revenue from businesses small and large that work, operate or merely pass through their borders
NEB,USA -Land Line Magazine, – By Charlie Morasch, -May 20, 2008: -- Michael Heim was stunned by a letter he received in early March... Nebraska authorities sent notice that because Heim’s trucks had driven through the state, the Nebraska Department of Revenue was considering levying an income tax on his business, even though Heim had no customers and made no stops... “We pay our UCR fees, we pay road tax, appropriation fees, part of our IRP license fees goes to Nebraska,” Heim told Land Line... “We pay fuel tax, and we’re running mostly I-80 which is a federal highway. We don’t do any pickups or deliveries here; we don’t have a terminal in Nebraska. To me, Nebraska is reaching.”... Increasingly, states such as Nebraska and New Mexico are aggressively digging for revenue from businesses small and large that work, operate or merely pass through their borders... Increased enforcement of pass-through income taxes will likely have a domino effect, as states where trucking companies are based realize they’re losing revenue to other states, said Rick Craig, OOIDA’s director of regulatory affairs... Michael Heim said he doesn’t plan on paying income taxes in Nebraska. Heim Trucking already has shifted many routes to go around Nebraska, and Michael said he’ll fight what he considers “double taxation.”... “You and I have to live off our budget,” Heim told Land Line. “Why can’t Nebraska live off their budget without dreaming up ways to tax individuals?”...
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