{"id":22277,"date":"2010-10-10T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T01:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_carolina_tax_policy_tweak_slams_small_businesses\/"},"modified":"2010-10-10T01:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T01:00:28","slug":"south_carolina_tax_policy_tweak_slams_small_businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22277","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina tax policy tweak slams Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;five years after lawmakers tweaked South Carolina&#8217;s sales tax policy, state revenue collectors now say that service providers &#8212; people who repair equipment, fix cars and maintain boats, for example &#8212; should levy a sales tax on their services.<\/p>\n<p>Charging a tax on those services, which are typically thought to be tax-free, could affect thousands of businesses across the state as the state begins enforcing the policy.<\/p>\n<p>Greenery Gallery is caught in the crossfire. Its bill for five years of back sales taxes came to $41,971.16, a substantial amount for a company that brings in about $500,000 in annual revenue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/oct\/09\/sc-tax-policy-tweak-slams-small-businesses\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;five years after lawmakers tweaked South Carolina&#8217;s sales tax policy, state revenue collectors now say that service providers &#8212; people who repair equipment, fix cars and maintain boats, for example &#8212; should levy a sales tax on their services. Charging<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22277\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,589,149,151,619,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}