Members of Massachusetts’s business community filed a petition...
Members of Massachusetts’s business community filed a petition asking for the repeal of a recently passed state finance law “that made various computer services subject to sales and use tax,” said tax services firm Ryan in a news release Tuesday…
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(http://prn.to/19fKELd). The Commonwealth’s Transportation Finance Bill (HB-3535) passed July 24 and took effect July 31, the release said. Petitioners must have the petition deemed constitutional by state Attorney General Martha Coakley and get 68,911 signatures by Dec. 4 for the petition to be considered by the Legislature, the release continued. “If the Legislature takes no action, the petitioners will need to collect an additional 11,485 signatures. At that point, Massachusetts voters would decide whether to repeal the tax when they head to the polls in November of 2014."