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SD House Speaker Mark Mickelson; State Needs Additional Tax Options

SD House Speaker Mark Mickelson; State Needs Additional Tax Options

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Members of the Executive Board of the South Dakota legislature talked taxes at their meeting yesterday Monday in Pierre.
Board Chairman, Representative Mark Mickelson of Sioux Falls referenced a memo on sales tax collections written a year ago by Jim Terwilliger of the Bureau of Finance and Management………….

Mickelson says even as sales taxes fall, many economic indicators are strong…..

Mickelson says in the lack of a federal law allowing the states to collect sales tax on internet sales, there are some other options available….

Mickelson says he is concerned another property tax revolt is brewing if legislators can’t come up with new revenues for state and local governments.

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