List of Services To Be (Sales) Taxed

Services Included in HB 11:
Cable TV
Computer Services
Vehicle Services
Parking
Barber/Beauty
Physical Fitness Facility or Service
Docking/Landing Services
Engineering
Storage Service
Shoe Repair
Tax Preparation
Tanning/Massage/Sauna
Weighing Machine
Public Locker
Dating/Escort
Dieting Services
Direct Mail
Commercial Photo/Art
Stenographic
Exterminating
Personnel/Temporary Help
Management/Consulting/Public relations
Real Property Management
Testing Laboratory
Sign Painting
Interior Decorating
Auctioneering
Business Brokerage
Drafting
Independent Lecture Bureau
Printing Brokerage
Notary Public
Shop Window Decorating

Governor O’Malley’s Service Expansion in SB 2:
Real property management services
Tanning
Message
Physical fitness
Sauna, or steam bath facility or services

Additional services now being considered by the Senate:

Business Services:
Computer Services
Real Estate Leasing
Data Processing
Real estate agents
Advertising/Public Relations
Insurance Admin/Claims Adjusting
Market research/Public Opinion
Telemarketing
Convention and Trade Show Organizers
Entertainment Services:
Spectator Sports (including horse racing)
Golf Courses (public and private)
Concert/performance promotion, mgmt and performance
Theatre companies and dinner theatre (for-profit and non-profit)
Arcades and video games
Museums (for profit and non profit)
Gambling industries (excluding horse racing)
Bowling
Amusement and theme parks
Arcades
Miniature Golf

Information Services:
Wire telecommunications carriers
Book and other publishers
Newspaper Publishers
Radio Broadcasting
Software publishers
Database and directory publishers
Periodical publishers
Television Broadcasting
Motion picture and video exhibition
On-line information services
Motion picture and video production
Telecommunications resellers

Personal Services:
Landscaping
Funeral Homes
Photofinishing
Locksmiths
Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning
Cemeteries and Crematories
Bail Bonding
Water softening and conditioning

Professional Services:
Legal and title services
Landscaping services
Scientific consulting services
Architectural services
Environmental consulting services
Surveying and building inspection
Repair Services:
Computer and office machine repair
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair
Home and garden equipment repair, appliance repair and maintenance
Other electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance
Consumer electronics repair
Reupholstery and furniture repair
Boat repair
Welding repair
Communication equipment repair and maintenance
Watch, clock and jewelry repair
Garment repair and alteration services

Transportation Services:
Waste Management and remediation services
Air courier services
Travel arrangement/reservation services
Freight transportation arrangement
Used household and office goods moving
Scheduled passenger air transportation
General freight trucking, local
Support activities for air transportation
Local messengers and local delivery
Other transit and ground passenger transport
Support activities for rail transport
Charter bus industry
Motor vehicle towing
Nonscheduled air transportation
Support activities for transportation
School and employee bus transportation
Scheduled freight air transportation
Interurban and rural bus transportation

Financial Services:
Securities intermediation and related activities
All other insurance related activities
Funds, trusts and other financial vehicles
Offices of bank holding companies
Offices of other holding companies
Corporate, subsidiary and regional managing offices

Tax Bills To Be Packaged For A Vote Tomorrow

I was forwarded this info. We need to keep calling our senators. Please read.

I know you have had lots of messages, but If you weren't mad before, check out the latest developments. See attached Release from Senator E.J. Pipkin about the 20 + ADDITIONAL SERVICES discussed over the weekend to be added to the Sales and Use Tax bills: HB 11.

Then, take a look at HB -30 Establishing the Maryland Education Fund; providing that after a specified date, the balance remaining on a gift certificate shall be presumed abandoned; requiring a person that sells or issues a gift certificate in the State to remit to the Comptroller the remaining balance on gift certificates on or before a specified date each year.

Here's what we need to do: Ask every MFRW member(get your family members, neighbors and friends to call too) to call Wednesday morning, November 7, between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, the listed Committee Chairs and selected members of the Senate and House and say: I'm opposed to any new taxes. Please vote NO to any new taxes.

It is expected that the tax bills will be presented as a package Wednesday for a vote. It is extremely important that we ring the phones off the wall tomorrow morning. If you find the phone lines busy, send faxes and e-mails.

There are 4 Democrats who have said either publicly or by signing a "No New Tax Pledge" that they will not vote for any new taxes: They are: Senators Brochin, Della, Dyson and Stone. They need to be encouraged to hang in there and keep their word to their voters.

Senator Miller told Patt Parker that his phone is not ringing. Let's fix that.