If Gov. Gary Herbert and the Utah Legislature are able to cram through House Bill 441, which creates a new tax on service businesses and rearranges the tax collection of $10 billion dollars — and do it in just two weeks, without any public input — they will have pulled off the biggest money grab of recent times.
Changing the tax structure this quickly is being done for a reason. The legislators pushing it are avoiding an honest discussion of the pros and cons of their tax experiment. They do not believe this bill would pass if taxpayers understood it.