Tax prohibition amendments don’t pass House
By Garry Rayno - InDepthNH | Apr 11, 2021
House members enjoy some food at Friday s session at the NH SportsPlex in Bedford. (PAULA TRACY photo)
BEDFORD House Republicans failed Friday to muster the votes needed to advance two proposed constitutional amendments prohibiting broad-based taxes.
The House did approve a bill to expand the base of the rooms and meals tax to include internet transactions for rental cars and rooms.
The proposed constitutional amendments would have prohibited the legislature from approving an income tax and a “broad-based sales tax.”
Supporters of the prohibition of an income tax said the proposal has previously been before voters and had majority support, but not enough to meet the two-thirds majority needed to be added to the constitution.