Detailed List of Everything Wolf Proposes to Newly Tax at 6.6% - such as college meals & fees

[JPZenger]

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2015/03/06/More-goods-services-to-be-taxed-under-Wolf-proposal/stories/201503060173

This list is more detailed than previous lists.

For example, it clarifies that college meal plans and fees would be taxed, but not tuition. Many colleges (including many Pa. public colleges) charge $2,000 to $3,000 a year in mandatory fees (beyond food, housing and tuition). If a student has $2,000 of mandatory fees and a $5,000 meal plan, that is an additional $462 a year in sales tax that each college student would have to pay.

[bluestateguy]

1. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know that Corbett won last November

Or maybe Wolf seems to think that all college students in Pennsylvania are rich kids at Penn and Swarthmore.

[JPZenger]

2. Patriot-News article on Wolf's proposed taxing of college fees

http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/03/do_not_publish_yet_college_tex.html

[JPZenger]

3. Would these taxes put PA law firms and accountants at a disadvantage?

Where would these taxes be applied? Would they be applied to any college located inside PA, for persons living anywhere? How about online courses?

How about the tax on law and accounting fees? Would law and accounting firms move outside of PA. to avoid the tax?

[JPZenger]

4. During campaign, Wolf never proposed sales tax increase

Before the election, the public knew Wolf would support a 5% severance tax on gas. They also knew he would support an increased income tax rate, accompanied by reductions in the income tax paid by low income persons.

However, voters had no idea that Wolf would propose an increase in the sales tax, and an expansion in the tax to include almost all types of services.

[Panich52]

5. Taxing education seems counter to Wolf's campaign pledges to increase education funding.

If I'd been allowed to vote in primary, a businessman wouldn't have been my choice. Now that he beat Corbett (any doubt he would?) I hope he remembers that one reason he did was because we were tired of being gouged.

[JPZenger]

6. Tax would include day care, home health care, most settlement costs

I listened to part of a hearing on this tax. The tax would include child day care, home health care, and many settlement costs that people have to pay upfront when buying a home. For example, the tax would be charged on the realtor's commissions, the property inspections and any survey or appraisal fees. As a result, it would increase the up-front costs to buy a home.