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Monday, Sept. 21, 2009 | 2:28 p.m.
CARSON CITY – A legislative subcommittee embarking on a study of Nevada’s tax system is running into early questions and pitfalls in choosing a group to chart the goals for Nevada in the next two decades.
Called the Nevada Vision Stakeholder Group, members will represent commerce and industry, education, health and human services, public safety and infrastructure.
Members of the vision group will have to put in up to 20 hours a month but there’s no money to pay them or reimburse them for travel, hotel rooms and meals.
Sen. Bernice Mathews, D-Reno, said there should be some money at least to cover travel. “Great ideas come from people with limited money,” she said at a meeting Monday of the Legislative Subcommittee to conduct a review of Nevada’s Revenue Structure.
Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno, said the membership of this vision group “can’t be lopsided with the sector using taxes versus those who are paying the taxes.”
Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas, questioned why there was no sector of local government represented in this vision group setting the goals for the future.
Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, said he wants “broad representation” on this vision group. But the tax committee did not select a number of members.
Horsford, chairman of the tax subcommittee, named Assemblyman Marcus Conklin, D-Las Vegas, to head a committee to recommend the vision membership. Groups or lobby organizations have until Oct. 9 to submit nominees to the Legislative Counsel Bureau to serve.
Horsford also selected Raggio to head a subcommittee to review the proposals submitted by companies that want to be a consultant to the committee. There is no estimate how much this private firm would be paid but $500,000 was mentioned.
The companies that want the job must submit their resumes by Oct. 1.
Once the tax committee gets an estimate of how much the study will cost, it will submit a request for the money to the state Board of Examiners to draw the cash from the state’s contingency fund.
The 2009 Legislature passed a resolution that said Nevada’s existing tax sources “are insufficient to fund essential state services such as education, health and human services and public safety programs.”
This subcommittee will look at plans for broad-based taxes but at the same time examine reductions in taxes to consumers and business.
The consulting firm that is selected must present its final recommendations on changes to the tax structure in Nevada and the goals suggested by the vision group by July 1 next year.
The tax subcommittee also took a brief look at the five prior studies of Nevada’s taxes, dating back to 1960. The most recent was produced in November 2002.
I got a suggestion for Nevada's tax system -- criminalize it!
: )
How about taxing government employees and campaign funds?
I got a suggestion for those who complain about taxes in any form...
Criminalize children! That way we avoid medical bills, education and ultimately prison!
1. Government employees DO pay taxes. Why would you imply that they are exempt?
2. As for children, no do not criminalize them. But don't ask me to help pay for them. I don't want children, I don't have children, and through my life, I've taken responsibility to ensure that I do not produce children. So, why should my tax money go to those who want to indulge in that? If you want kids, you pay for them. Or at least be sensible about what you can truly afford.
Teaser,
Maybe you forgot, but you were a child once and taxpayers without children helped pay for your education. Pull your head out and remember that you live in a village.
They tax live entertainment at 10% of gross door and on all receipt sales ON TOP of the sales tax of 8.1%. That is a total of 18.1 % split into two different taxes, on two different forms going to the same place - sounds like double taxation but this is not america anymore either - but thats besides the point
So if they can tax entertainment at 10%, why cant they tax media buys and campaign contributions at 10% also. That is a source of some major money if they are looking for something to tax! Jim Rogers likes new taxes - lets test him on it.
Open range I live in a house. Screw the village. Hillary is there and the whole village stinks. I am an individual first and foremost. My loyalty to the village, commune, whatever you want to call it the last of my priorities. Loyalty to myself and family is first.
"I am an individual first and foremost", typical of people now. I'm not very religious, but jesus would be proud. I love that people claim taxes are unamerican, stop watching glen beck and form your own opinion about what is right. If I have to pay and xtra 1000 dollars a year so our state can get out of the armpit of all rankings, I am all for it. I guess that makes me a communist, I beleive in helping the poor, elderly, and less fortunate.
I am with Teaser. Pay for your own kids. NO more taxes. Nevada is special because of low taxes. If you start taxing too much what advantage do we have here?
We need to discourage families from coming here and costing us.
NO more Taxes!
The only problem with all of us paying another thousand bucks a year in taxes... They'll piss it down some bottomless pit ( public employee unions get another raise ) and then come back to the table wanting us to cough up another thousand bucks on top of the extra thousand were already paying.
Screw the heck outa that.
If everyone alive today would not produce any children these problems would all go away. And there would not be any more like what there is now.
teaser
All government employees including the president are paid by non government workers, including the taxes that they pay. Wise up and Open your eyes.
travislv86
You have the right to believe in helping the poor, elderly, and less fortunate. We should also have the right to believe that it is time for the anchor babies and illegal immigrates, should not receive free education or free medical and should be deported. The same applies to the perpetual welfare families. The number of illegitimate children in our welfare system is ridiculous.
Why in the heck do we need ANOTHER study? They have done plenty of them, wasting taxpayer dollars for a study that they won't implement is just more waste.
We elected you people now you are responsible for solving the problem. Get to it.
They're dying to institute a personal income tax. Yes, it's banned in the constitution. But they're trying to figure out a way around it. And then think of all the new jobs that will be created in government collecting our money. Maybe a Value Added Tax on top of the Sales Tax. Same things. You watch-it's going to happen.
"I am an individual first and foremost" . . . until somebody robs my house, until my toilet doesn't flush, until my house is on fire, until I need the kid at McD's to provide the correct change, until I can't drive to my driveway, until the traffic lights go black, . . .
If you are such an individualist, why do you live in a village? You couldn't hang in the open range, my friend.