March 10th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

Hearings are scheduled in the House and Senate in Annapolis today for the Small Business Services Tax.  The tax would add 2.5% to essential services businesses use every day including payroll processing, IT support, and consulting.  The democrat-sponsored bill appeared in a similar form last year, but was shot down according to Senator Mike McKay…

   

“They had talked about it last year, yes. It didn’t go anywhere. It got, really, a tremendous amount of pushback.  Because they’re just throwing anything and everything up on the wall, it’s back again. I don’t think it’s going to have a shot, but the revenues keep on looking worse and worse, so I don’t know.”