Thursday, July 08, 2010

House Speaker: Lawmakers Could Completely Revamp Tax System Next Year

By Charles Oliver
The Dalton Citizen
Local News
July 8, 2010

Georgia’s tax code currently has more than 120 exemptions to various taxes, says state House of Representatives Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge.

“The problem that you run into when you have that is that your tax policy becomes driven more by special interest politics than it does by internal consistency,” Ralston said. Ralston and other House Republican leaders spoke Wednesday at the Dalton Municipal Airport.

They said that tax reform will be one of the major issues the General Assembly deals with next year. Lawmakers created a panel this year to review Georgia’s state tax code. It will have its first meeting on July 28.

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