Battle Over Control of School Infrastructure Funds Renewed: Iowans for Tax Relief Works to Save Your Right to Vote!
January 25, 2008
Yesterday, 14 members of the Iowa House introduced House File 2066, a bill that would replace the current local option tax for school infrastructure (SILO) with an additional penny of statewide sales and use tax (each additional penny of sales and use tax raises about $400 million).
Voters in all 99 Iowa counties have adopted the SILO and are collecting the tax. HF 2066 would eliminate local voters from the approval process and make the tax a permanent statewide penny. In addition, HF 2066 increases the state use tax by a penny (the use tax is exempt from the current SILO) and that will result in a tax increase of about $120 million beyond the current tax.
Iowans for Tax Relief strongly OPPOSES HF 2066.
Battle Over Control of School Infrastructure Funds Renewed: Iowans for Tax Relief Works to Save Your Right to Vote!