[EAS] Where attention needs to be

[Mike McCarthy]

Not stray too far from EAS, this was first tried in Florida a few years 
ago and failed miserably.  Ohio's seems to go much farther than 
Florida's did by taxing professional services of all kinds. So your 
architect, accountant, lawyer, financial adviser, and doctor will will 
be charging what amounts to a sales tax for their services. An utterly 
stunning bill coming from a state noted for sending federal elected 
officials to Congress who are staunchly lower/anti-tax and pro-business.

Might this be an opening for stations who commit to active participation 
in local first reporter program  with their local CoL's to be exempted? 
A station grossing $1M a year would save $60K in taxes at a rate of 6%. 
Enough to hire a news person to manage that aspect and improve their 
on-air presentation at the same time.

Talk about dragging broadcasters back to their basic obligation of 
public service kicking and screaming.

MM

On 2/15/2013 7:31 PM, Tom Taggart wrote:
> This Ohio bill would not only require stations to collect
> taxes for the sale (or trade) of advertising time, but would
> also assess taxes on services they need, including
> accounting, legal, and IT.
>
> My copy of the bill from the Ohio Bar Assn. is a 200+ page