Md. sales tax increases to help Delaware?
December 11, 2007
When our state sales tax rises to 6 percent in January, Delaware retailers are hoping to glean even more business from Marylanders willing to cross state lines to purchase big-ticket items.
The (Salisbury) Daily Times reports that some Maryland shoppers already drive past the state line, far into Delaware to buy those expensive purchases (HD TV, anyone?) - and the Cecil County Chamber of Commerce is up in arms.
The CoC in our northeastern county is trying to persuade businesses to pay the sales tax for customers, and therefore keep prices as low as possible.
Any business owners out there who’d be willing to do this?
Will that extra 1 percent tax really be the breaking point for Maryland shoppers who are already close to the border?
JACKIE SAUTER, Multimedia Editor
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This increase in a joke.. its just the same thing we keep seeing everyday - prices going up and everything else just getting more and more expensive. However, Marylanders should petition and fight against the 6% increase and only then with a strong fight from petitioners is it then possible for the sales tax to be reduced back to 5%. I just see this as a way for state legislature to make more money on people.
Just hope they won’t tax our paychecks at 6%!
This is exactly why we need stricter border controls! Those Delawarians come to Maryland don’t learn our language. Take all the best landscaping jobs.