{"id":1982,"date":"2006-05-30T12:40:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T16:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/occupations_tax_cut\/"},"modified":"2006-05-30T12:40:48","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T16:40:48","slug":"occupations_tax_cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/occupations_tax_cut\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Occupations Tax&#8221; Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since leaders have been contemplating what to do with the State of Tennessee&#8217;s budget surplus, here&#8217;s an idea: cut the <a title=\"Professional Privilege Tax\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessee.gov\/revenue\/tntaxes\/proftax.htm\">Professional Privilege Tax<\/a>.<br \/>\nThree years ago this tax was doubled when the state was dealing with a budget crisis.  Yes, $400 merely to have the &#8220;privilege&#8221; of holding a license, regardless if you are currently earning income from it or not.<br \/>\nIf the budget crisis has passed, how about reverting the tax back to $200?  As tax policy matter, does it really even make sense to levy a tax based merely on the &#8220;privilege&#8221; of practicing in a designated profession?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/occupations_tax_cut\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;Occupations Tax&#8221; Cut\"><p>Since leaders have been contemplating what to do with the State of Tennessee&#8217;s budget surplus, here&#8217;s an idea: cut the Professional Privilege Tax. Three years ago this tax was doubled when the state was dealing with a budget crisis. Yes, $400 merely to have the &#8220;privilege&#8221; of holding a license, regardless if you are currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}