AN ACT TO UPDATE SALES TAX TO BE INCLUDED IN THE RETAIL PRICE IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE

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Sponsored by Quinn Hobbs, Parker Kersey of West High School

This legislation was filed in the Economic and Community Development category

Presented as part of the YIG Volunteer 2024 conference

1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE TENNESSEE YMCA YOUTH IN GOVERNMENT
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3 Section 1: Terms in this act will be defined as follows:
4 SSBCI 2.0 - “State Small Business Credit Initiative” This is a state fund to help support small
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7 Section 2: Standardize the county tax sales rate to 2.5%
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9 Section 3: All retail prices will be required to have the sales included in the listed price
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11 Section 4: The State of Tennessee will continue the SSBCI through 2035
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13 Section 5: All surplus from this act goes to the SSBCI
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15 Section 6: The implication of this Bill will be at no additional cost to the state
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17 Section 7: All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this are hereby repealed.
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19 Section 8: This act shall take effect Jan 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.
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