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Sales Tax Exemptions May be a Target in the 2018 South Dakota Legislature

Sales Tax Exemptions May be a Target in the 2018 South Dakota Legislature

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With a freeze on state aid to education this year, South Dakota lawmakers may expand their search for revenue.
District 18 legislators met with the Yankton School Board Monday night to talk about the upcoming session.

Senator Craig Kennedy says there are untapped dollars available…..

Kennedy, a democrat, says there are a lot of goods and services that don’t pay sales tax…….

Kennedy says it wouldn’t take a lot of rolled back exemptions to make up the deficit……

The freeze on aid to education follows a three tenths of one percent increase last year.

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