Sales Tax Exemptions Are Everywhere

By Kleinheider Posted on July 17, 2009 at 7:19 am

And Ben Cunningham doesn’t like it:

There are hundreds of other exemptions in the code,” said taxpayer advocate Ben Cunningham.

There are enough tax exemptions in Tennessee code to be cut and pasted onto paper, with the list stretching from the door of the House chambers all the way to inside the Senate.

“There’s always an argument that you pay sales tax on baby food but you don’t pay sales tax on horse food,” said state Sen. Joe Haynes.

That means you’ll pay taxes for food at the grocery store, but farmers won’t pay a dime in taxes to feed their livestock. Along the same vein, there’s sales tax on the drugs to treat your dog but not to treat cows.

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