Help fight the Maryland 6% computer services tax
It continues to be massively frustrating that Maryland has passed a new 6% tax on computer services without hearings or industry input or much thought. Two months after passing the bill, more than half the legislators have signed a bill to repeal it. One wonders what these same legislators were thinking when they voted for the tax, but at least they now have seen its folly. However, the Ways and Means Committee seems very likely to prevent a vote on the repeal. Wasn’t this one of the hardest ideas to understand when you were a young idealistic kid in high school government classes – that we have a representative democracy with elected representatives, but then they are subject to the control of a few powerful committee members?
If you want to help with the efforts to repeal this tax, go to www.fightthetechtax.com, organized by the Tech Council of Maryland and the Maryland Chamber of Commerce. And if you are a Maryland resident, you can use the site to send emails to your state legislators with just a few seconds of effort.