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DEL.ICIO.USHouse votes to give swine industry fuel tax break
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
He didn’t want to be hoggish, so Republican state Rep. Jay Roberts of Ocilla put a two-year cap on a fuel tax exemption for the swine industry.
“It’s just a little pork project,” joked Roberts before the House voted 148 to 5 in favor of the exemption. The estimated cost to taxpayers, he said, is $100,000.
Lawmakers have passed dozens of tax exemptions this year for various groups, including charitable food banks and back-to-school shoppers.
Roberts’ bill, which still has to clear the Senate and be approved by the governor, would exempt from sales tax liquified gas and other fuels in swine operations. It would be effective from July 1 of this year to June 30, 2008.
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