Nevada tax measures die

Friday, April 11, 2003 | 11:23 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- Individual bills to boost the taxes of big casinos, levy a sales tax on services, and impose fees on satellite TV viewers officially died in the Senate Taxation Committee on Thursday.

Some of those plans could reappear, however, as part of an omnibus tax bill that is still pending before the committee.

The committee failed to take a vote Thursday on about 20 bills calling for new or increased taxes.

The deadline for committee approval is today and the taxation committee did not have a meeting scheduled for today.

Sen. Mike McGinness, R-Fallon, the chairman of the committee, said it would secure a waiver on Gov. Kenny Guinn's tax plan, Senate Bill 238, to exempt it from the rule that all Senate bills must be out of the Senate committee by today.

McGinness said the committee, when it fashions a tax plan, could include any of the elements of the other bills that have officially died because of inaction.

In other action:

The bill is designed to even the playing field for dealers that have to collect the tax on the sale of boats.