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Commentary: Tax Foundation report is half-baked. New Utah tax not needed.

Just as Utah lawmakers prepare to discuss “tax modernization,” the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.,-based think tank, issued a report urging Utah to “blaze a trail” for other states by imposing sales tax on services. Curiously, the report parrots the same misleading talking points used by Utah lawmakers to justify what would amount to the largest expansion of tax policy in Utah’s history.

The Tax Foundation report concludes that imposing sales tax on services is needed to “modernize” Utah’s tax system. However, the report fails to consider the most fundamental questions of sound tax policy.