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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1212118, member: 21309&quot;]<a href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p>Maryland Bill to Repeal Sales Tax Exemption Dies</p><p>By CoinWeek on April 12, 2011 10:06 AM</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A bill before the Maryland House of Delegates that would have ended the sales tax exemption for coins has been defeated.</p><p>House Bill 206—Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Precious Metal Bullion and Coins—failed to make it out of the Revenue Subcommittee of the Ways &amp; Means Committee with the end of the legislative session looming, on April 11.</p><p>The death of HB 206 marks a decided victory for the numismatic community. Whitman Expo General Manager David Crenshaw, who helped lead a coalition against the bill, says there is plenty of credit to go around.</p><p>“This was a classic case of the numismatic community coming together quickly and effectively to get the job done. Whitman committed the necessary resources to engage a top-flight lobbying firm, The Rasmussen Group, and we certainly brought a lot of people together, but it took all of us to ensure the defeat of this wrong-headed measure,” Crenshaw said.</p><p>Coin dealers and other numismatists were joined in their opposition to the bill by Visit Baltimore (the city’s convention and tourism arm), which saw the measure as a money-loser given that Whitman alone hosts three major coin shows in the city each year.</p><p>“Working together, we organized letter writing and email campaigns targeted at the committee members in order to help them understand that the repeal of this exemption would result in less tax revenue for Maryland—not more,” Crenshaw said. . . &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" rel="nofollow">D</a>uring the show a PA announcement stated Delegate Stokes was in room #... to discuss the numismatic maryland sales tax exemption. I did not attend.</p><p><br /></p><p>go to link to read entire article. <a href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/maryland-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-exemption-dies/" rel="nofollow">A</a> local auction place charges me sales tax on numismatic purchases.&nbsp; I keep meaning to get a copy of the law to show them&nbsp; and educate myself.</p><p>State numismatic tax laws are inconsistent and confusing,[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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