{"id":14045,"date":"2012-12-19T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T18:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=14045"},"modified":"2012-12-19T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T18:07:01","slug":"idaho-tax-commission-releases-comprehensive-report-ahead-of-likely-legislative-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/12\/19\/idaho-tax-commission-releases-comprehensive-report-ahead-of-likely-legislative-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Tax Commission Releases Comprehensive Report Ahead Of Likely Legislative Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14049\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"In some cases, office supplies like this stapler are taxed.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/12\/photo2.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14049\" title=\"Stapler -- personal property tax\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/12\/photo2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/12\/photo2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/12\/photo2-620x412.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/12\/photo2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emilie Ritter Saunders \/ StateImpact<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In some cases, office supplies like this stapler are taxed.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Idaho State Tax Commission has published a <a href=\"http:\/\/tax.idaho.gov\/pubs\/EPB00703_12-17-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">comprehensive report<\/a> detailing the state&#8217;s <a title=\"Understanding Idaho\u2019s Personal Property Tax\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/personal-property-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">personal property tax<\/a>. The 51-page report offers a clear picture of just how reliant some\u00a0 city and county governments have become on the business equipment tax.<\/p>\n<p>The report is significant, since many lawmakers say the coming legislative session will include heavy debate of whether the state should begin scaling back <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/tag\/personal-property-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">the tax<\/a> or phasing it out.<\/p>\n<p>The Tax Commission&#8217;s report shows the <a title=\"Understanding Idaho\u2019s Personal Property Tax\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/personal-property-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">personal property tax<\/a> is expected to bring in almost $141 million in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>You can read much more about Idaho&#8217;s personal property tax, including arguments for and against getting rid of the tax, <a title=\"Understanding Idaho\u2019s Personal Property Tax\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/personal-property-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho State Tax Commission has published a comprehensive report detailing the state&#8217;s personal property tax. The 51-page report offers a clear picture of just how reliant some\u00a0 city and county governments have become on the business equipment tax. The report is significant, since many lawmakers say the coming legislative session will include heavy debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":14049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[210,214,102],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14054,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045\/revisions\/14054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}