From the beginning, the effort to rewrite Georgia’s tax structure has had its critics.
Conservatives and liberals alike have found reasons to throw stones at the plan now under consideration in the General Assembly that would cut income taxes and shift the state to more consumer levies.
Now add the Girl Scouts and the disabled to the chorus of boos as groups line up to protest the possible elimination of dozens of popular tax exemptions. A bill currently under consideration would apply sales taxes to items ranging from scout fundraisers and purchased by orphanages to MARTA fares and prosthetic limbs.
“People are just very disappointed that the state would even consider that as a tool for balancing the books,” said Tracey Techau, CEO of the Atlanta Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, on the possibility that Boy Scout popcorn sales would be taxed.
In Friday’s newspaper, the AJC looks at the exemptions on the chopping block and why the special council assigned to create the reform plan recommended they go away.
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