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For Immediate Release
Kelly Hoffman 202-314-2054 or [email protected]
NFIB Small Business Legal Center Files Brief in Maryland Double-Taxation Case
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 29, 2014 — Karen Harned, Executive Director of NFIB’s Small Business Legal Center, made the following statement in response to NFIB’s amicus brief filing in Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. Wynne. In this case the Supreme Court will have to decide the scope of a state’s power to tax residents’ income when those earnings have already been taxed by another state. The case before the high court involves tax rules in Maryland requiring the state to collect taxes on residents’ income for use at the county level, no matter if that income has been taxed by another state.
“It’s hard to think of a more blatant example of impermissible state taxation of interstate commerce than Maryland’s tax. Maryland has imposed an undue and unconstitutional burden on small businesses, increasing the burdens, costs, and barriers to small-business owners who sell goods in interstate and international commerce. The costly regulations being enforced by the state are excessive and do more harm than good. We urge the Supreme Court to strike-down Maryland’s double-taxation scheme in order to protect small business.”
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